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Rethinking Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Tech Soup

During our webinar on May 24, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , we covered key points on effective presentations in PowerPoint. One of my favorite pieces of advice is to remember that your economy of language is incredibly important when creating your slides. Meredith Farkas, Avoiding the Idea Graveyard.

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The Openness of Slides

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I remember listening to Bill Strickland , founder of the Manchester Craftsman Guild, give a keynote address at an Arts and Education Summer Seminar where I was on the technology faculty. Now, this was ten years ago, so he used Kodak slides (remember those) as his visuals. She has also shared her slides and wiki here.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

This addition is a slide show of photographs that the volunteers email to me. My favorite addition was a film clip I used as the finale for the first slide show — a 70ish volunteer tap dancing! For both shows, I used PowerPoint to create the slides and captions. Each presentation was about 8 minutes long.

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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

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. SlideShare is a social networking site that lets you share Powerpoint presentations.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. I ended up attending "Screencasting: The latest in technology training," lead by Beth Kanter. I've put the presentation (and almost all my other presentations) into Slide Share. I hope to see more nonprofit technology presentations in there.

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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. I discovered this post from Alec Couros , reflecting on his recent presentation in a wiki for emerging technology. A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. This guide on the Total Cost of Technology from the ICT Hub may also be useful. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. for NGOs there.

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