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Voice Over PowerPoint: Free GoldMail for Non-profits

Wild Apricot

Looking for an easy way to add your voice over a PowerPoint presentation, then share it by email or online? Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech E-mail marketing Non-profit Communications PowerPoint application audio. Here's a cool tool to try – and a special offer for non-profit organizations.( read more ).

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Rethinking Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Tech Soup Blog

During our webinar on May 24, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , we covered key points on effective presentations in PowerPoint. One additional feature in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 that we did not cover much in our webinar is animation. What does "economy of language" mean?

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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup Blog

Using SmartArt Graphics in Microsoft PowerPoint to Enhance Your Presentation Instead of Hindering It. Accomplishing More With PowerPoint: Don’t Let Your Slide Become a “Brochure," Eliminate the PowerPoint Clutter!

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Webinar Recap: Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint

Tech Soup Blog

On May 24, I had the pleasure of facilitating our first webinar in our Microsoft Tips and Tricks Series, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. Better PowerPoint Presentations: The Office Casual Way. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2010 Course. Embed a PowerPoint Presentation into a blog.

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Upcoming Webinar on May 24: Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint

Tech Soup Blog

Pacific, we will be holding a live webinar that will be covering SmartArt, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. We will then discuss PowerPoint's broadcast function , which allows you to virtually share your presentation with clients or colleagues throughout the world. , you are in for a treat.

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5 Favorite Features, Tips, and Shortcuts for Microsoft's PowerPoint

Tech Soup Blog

Following up on a post from last month that featured my favorite features, tips, and shortcuts for the oft-used Word program, I wanted to do the same with another tool in the Office Suite: PowerPoint. Please feel free to share your tips, shortcuts , and favorite features in PowerPoint in this discussion in our forums. read more.

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Announcing the 2021 Open Data Project!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The anonymized survey data can be easily downloaded into Excel, PowerPoint, a PDF, and/or Word. Please help promote the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey in your country. How to Use the Data. As open data, it can be used and republished by any person or organization worldwide.

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Harry's Powerpoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I showed him the basics of how to extract the photos from the camera, how to insert them into PowerPoint, and some basic instruction on PowerPoint. He has been taking photos and then using them to illustrate a digital diary. Harry is 8 years old). I walked away from him for about 15 minutes.

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Upcoming Webinar on May 24: Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint

Tech Soup Blog

Pacific, we will be holding a live webinar that will be covering SmartArt, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. We will then discuss PowerPoint's broadcast function , which allows you to virtually share your presentation with clients or colleagues throughout the world. , you are in for a treat.

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How PowerPoint Is Helping to Protect Motorcyclists in London

Tech Soup Blog

It's time to add Microsoft's PowerPoint to the list. This post originally appeared on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Blog and was written by Erica Lorraine Scheidt, TechSoup Global's Director of Marketing Communications. Typically, helmets, riding suits, gloves, and goggles are the best way to keep motorcyclists safe on the road.

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Pecha Kucha

NCE Social Media

Pecha Kucha is a variation on your typical PowerPoint presentation. How it differs from your traditional PowerPoint presentation is that the speaker uses 20 slides and has 20 seconds per slide to speak. I gave a talk yesterday explaining Pecha Kucha to a group of nonprofit executives. You can do Pecha Kucha with a live audience.

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The Social Life of PowerPoint Presentations (or why I really love SlideShare)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SlideShare is a social networking site that lets you share Powerpoint presentations. My wildest dream would be for many nonprofits to upload and share powerpoint presentation (and screencasts) and we could remix each other's work - it would save us time and help build knowledge. I've been using now for six months and I'm an addict.

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TechSoup Tools for Desktop Publishing and Presentations

Tech Soup Blog

You can save entire PDF files or just selected portions of them as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents, retaining layout, fonts, formatting, and tables. Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 — This is of course the industry-standard slideshow presentation software. The Admin fee is $12 for PowerPoint. The admin fee is $45.

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Microsoft Office 2016 Is Now Available!

Tech Soup Blog

PowerPoint. PowerPoint. Insights: Powered by Bing, this feature brings you contextual information from the web right into your Office experience when using Word, Excel, Outlook, or PowerPoint. Insights feature in PowerPoint. Project or Project Professional. Skype for Business (formerly Lync Desktop).

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How Trickle Up Animated Their Nonprofit Story

Tech Soup Blog

But through creative use of PowerPoint , the deck became a three-second. President, admits he;s somewhat of a PowerPoint whiz. PowerPoint’s tools to design the animations. " Familiarity with the tool, he explained, made PowerPoint the obvious. PowerPoint file and accompanying music into a video.

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Toxic Powerpoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A great article on SociableMedia about how to address the symptoms of toxic powerpoint which include: * Bullet point asphyxiation that suffocates dialogue with an endless stream of text read off a screen. Chart attack numbs its victims with numbers at the expense of narrative.

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How Many Microsoft Products Can My Nonprofit Request from TechSoup?

Tech Soup Blog

A title group contains products that serve essentially the same purpose, like PowerPoint and PowerPoint for Mac. Outlook and PowerPoint are both title groups. The Microsoft Donation Program divides products into categories called title groups. See the current list of 37. When does this two-year cycle start and end?

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Wild Apricot Blog : 4 Ways to Put a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Web Site

Wild Apricot

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also trying to move from powerpoint to wikitation. I'm not the only one who is making the shift from solitary powerpoint to the more social wikitations. Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0 Let me define the term: Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here.

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RESULTS: An Acronym For Nonprofit Success

Bloomerang

An acronym is a much beloved tool of English teachers and PowerPoint presenters all over the world. They cancel down core ideas and are remarkably useful aids to recall advice. So here’s why reflecting on the acronym “RESULTS” is so worthwhile in our efforts to achieve nonprofit success! R ead up on the latest research.

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DIY Social Media Management

Amy Sample Ward

View more PowerPoint from Amy Sample Ward. Tool-Specific tools: Twitalyzer. Low-Cost tools: Hootsuite Pro. Small Act’s Thrive. Sprout Social. DIY Social Media Management.

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7 Tips on Asking for Donations — It’s Intimidating, We Get It [Updated]

NonProfit Hub

No presenter who just reads bullet points off a PowerPoint instead does it because they want their audience to eagerly contemplate running from the room. Reading a PowerPoint feels like an easy way to tell your audience all the info they want and be sure not to forget anything important. Stop Being Boring (It Isn’t Worth It).

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6 Tech Tools That Are Better In The Cloud

TechImpact

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint is your program. Here are 6 tools that your nonprofit is already using that can be optimized through the cloud. >. Need to write up some website copy? Fire up Microsoft Word. Want to create a presentation for a donor meeting?

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Does Microsoft Office SmartArt Make You Smarter?

Tech Soup Blog

I'll be speaking in a webinar, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , on May 24 at 11 a.m. And it's brought me to a startling realization: over the course of my career, I've wasted a lot of time building visual aids for my PowerPoint presentations. As PowerPoint Ninja bluntly put it, SmartArt is dumb.

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The Visual Language of PowerPoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My strongest learning style is visual and perhaps that why I've always been attracted to using images to make a point in powerpoint and graphjc organizers.

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7 Easy Ideas to Give Your Next Presentation Oomph

Tech Soup Blog

Here's one of my absolute favorite-of-all-time slideshows that does this effectively: it's called You Suck at PowerPoint. presentations microsoft digital storytelling Powerpoint Slideshare' To do this, you'll want to use the same or related fonts, colors, and imagery across all your slides. Image 1 : Damon Nofar.

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An Easy Recipe for Making Text Overlay Images

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For many of your text overlay needs, you can easily create them in PowerPoint and save as a jpg. You will also need to resize your image depending on what channel and how you plan to use it. You could compose the text overlay using PicMonkey if you want more elaborate design and graphic elements than PowerPoint).

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Communication Secrets For A Distracted World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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8 Seconds To Be Meaningful

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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An Accessibility & Inclusion Checklist for Virtual Events

Forum One

Accessibility guidelines for PowerPoint (this information is also very useful and applicable to all presentation formats). Familiarize yourself with preparing presentation decks optimized for accessibility. Tips for making documents more accessible. Helpful Pressbook for Google Slides. Use plain language. Use inclusive language.

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Office 2016 for Mac Now Available

Tech Soup Blog

Eligible organizations can request the full Office for Mac suite or the individual Outlook or PowerPoint applications. New Features in PowerPoint. The newest version of Office for Mac is now available as a donation through TechSoup! New Features for All Applications in Office for Mac.

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VolunteerHub Helps Holocaust Museum Houston Increase Volunteers by 478%

Volunteer Hub

For example, the organization’s “New Volunteer Training” landing page provides a volunteer with essential resources, such as training videos, documentation, and PowerPoints. Each landing page provides a volunteer with information and resources that help them progress to the next step, and accompanied landing page, in the process.

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Holly Ross at NCE

NCE Social Media

Here are her two PowerPoint presentations from it. If you were at NCE in Nashville and saw Holly Ross , you will want to see her blog posts about her time with NCE.

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Embedding A YouTube Video in Power Point

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need Powerpoint 2007 and a live Internet connection in order to make it work. This trick, along with being able to Tweet from Powerpoint is definitely going into my Trainer's Bag of Social Media Tricks. I just discovered a way to embed the video directly in a slide. I'm knee deep in creating some new workshop curriculum.

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How To Effectively Communicate Your Message In Eight Seconds

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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Fast Free Document Sharing and Review

Wild Apricot

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration PDF project management PowerPoint application.

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How To Communicate Effectively In Eight Seconds

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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New Service! Social Media and Online Communications Audits for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each audit requires an average of 15-20 hours spent researching and reviewing your nonprofit’s online presence and another 5-10 hours preparing the PowerPoint for the webinar or in person presentation. If desired, suggestions can also be made about how your nonprofit can begin to launch a mobile communications and fundraising strategy.

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5 Tips For Making An Effective Presentation

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It's not enough to review your notecards and double-check your PowerPoint. There is lots of good advice in Bob Kulhan 's book, Getting To Yes And , One of my favorites is his tips for making a presentation. Kulhan recommends you follow these five tips : Warm Up. Give yourself time to get your body and mind ready for peak performance.

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#NailYourPitch: Make an Amazing First Impression

Greater Giving

This isn’t a powerpoint presentation—it’s a dialogue between you and the prospect. Speaking too fast gives your listener whiplash, and can come across as manufactured rather than personal. Try to think of your pitch as a conversation with a friend. It’s inherently personal, and that’s good.

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