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

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• 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.

• 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.more info

• 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... more info

• 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... more info

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