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Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire
by: Cliff Atkinson

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.58
EAN: 9780735623873
ISBN: 0735623872
Label: Microsoft Press
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Sales Rank: 2236
Studio: Microsoft Press

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Transform your presentations--and boost your impact--with practical, easy-to-apply techniques for using PowerPoint 2007. Author Cliff Atkinson is a presentation-skills expert who is helping revolutionize the way Fortune 500 companies design and deliver their critical presentations. Even major news media reported the contribution of Cliff's techniques to a verdict in a high-profile trial. In his highly-regarded, popular book BEYOND BULLET POINTS--now fully updated for PowerPoint 2007--Cliff shares his innovative three-step method that helps you unlock the amazing story buried in those bullet-riddled slides. He guides you, step by step, as you discover how to combine the tenets of classic storytelling with the power of projected media to create a rich, engaging experience. With easy-to-use templates, advanced tips, and plenty of illustrations and examples, you'll learn techniques to help you clarify, visualize, and present your ideas so that your audience will remember your important message. This newly revised, popular guide now includes a CD with sample PowerPoint 2007 files and graphics.

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- Love the new approach
Great philosophy! I hate when people read me things off of power points, it makes it seem like such a waste of time. This book fixes that in plain language and step by step directions. Sometimes I think they belabor some points, but it may be necessary to ride our minds of old ways of thinking.

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- Death by PowerPoint Syndrome
When American Idol hit the airwaves, the popular TV show gave false hope to bad singers. When the popular PowerPoint presentation software was introduced by Microsoft, it gave false hope to inexperienced presenters--and turned uninspiring meetings into really boring meetings. It was death by PowerPoint.

But there's hope and there's help. Quick! Order this book and delegate all future PowerPoint presentations to ONLY those who have read and mastered the innovative approach in this remarkable book.

This is a MUST title for your resource library. Atkinson says that the first five slides of a PowerPoint presentation are the most important--and that stories and pictures are absolutely critical in every presentation. The book also includes a CD with custom templates for storyboarding, checklists to ensure your presentation is compelling, and a complete eBook.

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- Just what I needed to get energized again!
Beyond Bullet Points came at just the right time for me. I am working on several projects at the moment and was really struggling with getting over the hump as far as engaging the audience. Also, I am working on a collaborative project with someone who is an expert in their field. They were consistently missing the mark with the content they put together. I tried explaining what they needed to do but just didn't seem to be getting my point across (I was missing the mark, too!) I told him to get Beyond Bullet Points so we could work through developing a presentation together. Wow! What a turnaround. Now this expert has a vehicle he can use to unload all of the incredible knowledge he has and do it in a compelling way that engages the audience from the very first minute. We don't have it published yet, but once it is up and running, I would be glad to share it with everyone. Thanks Cliff for putting the pieces of the ... Read More

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- 200 pages of fluff
This book is awful. It promises to show you how to create powerpoint presentations that motivate and inspire. But instead, it gives you a couple of pages teaching you the author's format (basically, a Hollywood script, in 3 Acts) then spends the rest of the book telling you how to create hidden slides, how to insert clip-art, and tons of "filler" pages of "top 10 things to remember" that are, frankly, common sense.

The Hollywood format, does look somewhat useful for creating a dialog with your audience and the supporting slides for that conversation. But it seems the author had about 20 pages of content, but needed to create another 180 pages so he could sell a book. And in that 180 pages he fails to discuss important topics like how to summarize ideas crisply on a slide, and instead pushes all the content into the notes section, and uses the slide as a place to put clip art of a sailboat, or something ... Read More

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