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by Geetesh Bajaj, September 25th 2012
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No Bullets Alternatives in PowerPoint -- 01
Countless voices will tell you that it's a sin to make your audiences suffer
with slides that are populated with bullets, but ask for a solution and the voices will diminish to just one or two.
And even then, you may not be able to use all the advice! So, here's one option: a no-bullets alternative for
you -- this presentation is an example of how you can use a callout style as an alternative to bulleted lists.
Make sure you notice ways to get in your pictures, charts, and tables within this callout style. Also this
question and answer (you can just call it a "conversation") format will help you involve your audience
much better, especially if you animate the callouts and their connectors sequentially one after the other.
Even better, use the Push transition effect for your slides to get the most from this style.
Concept Slides: Seven Segment Circle
A segment of a circle is defined as the region between the chord of a circle and its associated arc.
This conceptual slide contains a circle with 7 segments you can use to illustrate any concept or entity
comprising 7 components/elements, for example seven days of a week. Try and use pictures that complement each
other -- or even strongly contrast with each other.
Mad for the iPad Survey: Conversation with
Joan Babinski
 Joan Babinski is vice president of
marketing for Brainshark, Inc. Brainshark's cloud-based software lets users create online and
mobile video presentations -- using simple business tools like PowerPoint and the phone or computer
microphone -- and share and track their content. Brainshark is also the creator of the free SlideShark app for
viewing, presenting and sharing PowerPoints on the iPad and iPhone. In this conversation, Joan discusses
"Mad for the iPad" survey data that Brainshark is releasing today, from a survey of 1,320 iPad owners.
Preparing for Ignite or Pecha Kucha: Conversation with
Yancey Unequivocally
Yancey Unequivocally is the co-founder and President at Empowered Presentations, a slide design firm based
in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yancey is in the business of helping companies and nonprofit organizations get their message
across. Her business has received accolades such as two first-place finishes in the World's Best Presentation Contest
on Slideshare.net and a Best in Slideshow Finalist in the Microsoft PowerPoint Slidefest Contest. In this
conversation, Yancey discusses how you can prepare efficiently to create and deliver a better Ignite or
Pecha Kucha presentation.
CrystalGraphics Chart and Diagram Slides for PowerPoint: The Indezine Review
 There are
so many ways in which you can create a better chart or a diagram using nothing apart from the tools available in
PowerPoint -- yet playing with all these options does take a fair amount of time. If you want something quick, and
also want the graphic content of your slides to shine through, then you may want to explore our review product:
CrystalGraphics Chart and Diagram Slides for PowerPoint.
Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Text and Presentation Recovery
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Theme Fonts
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Remember Slides Seen 2 Days Ago?
After a typical presentation, how much do attendees remember when they walk out of the room? Are there some
parts of a presentation that they remember more, and if that's true, then why? What can presenters and slide
designers do so that the audience can have a better memory recall about their message and content?
These were the questions we sent to Dr. Carmen Taran earlier this year. She had already
pondered about these questions before, and was intrigued enough to put together a study. She calls it a major
endeavor and needs real audience input now -- the purpose of her study is to find the answers to these questions.
Empirically!
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