Business Communication Today, 14th Ed.
Chapter 17. Enhancing Presentations with Slides and Other Visuals
Ian Griffin recently attended a forum where Kim A.
Dave Johnson has good things to say about 9Slides - an online platform that allows users to upload slides and videos for a synchronized online presentation you can show to those who missed your live presentation.
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Follow LinkedIn’s etiquette guide for students and recent graduates to increase your response rate and to maintain positive networking connections.
This document describes several intriguing new examples of social networks designed exclusively for members of certain professions or industries.
Seth Godin says, "The best marketers, of course, use the needle and the vise at the same time.
A pie chart is better than a data table to show proportions in data.
As presenters, we regularly need to show our audiences how to fill out forms.
When replacing text with a visual, don't make the mistake of thinking that you need a fancy or complex visual.
Analogies are a good way to help the audience understand your point.
If you are showing a process that repeats on a regular basis, make sure that it is clear for the audience.
On a monthly, quarterly or annual basis many people report their activity to the boss, a committee or stakeholders.
Often the design of our slides actually promotes too much text and leads to reading the slides.
When you are talking about date based events or information, don't use a simple list of the dates with no visual.
When you are presenting a calculation and how changes will affect it, make sure you do it so that the information is clearly understood.
Legal topics can be dry and boring if presented using slides that simply contain the words from a document.
In many training situations, too much text is put on the slide.
When explaining a technique, it is better to show than to tell.
Guy Kawasaki illustrates a simple-to-remember and truly effective mini-set of rules to conquer PowerPoint's typical low-legibility, visual boredom, and inability to augment the presentation being delivered.
Analogies are a good way to help the audience understand your point.
For this session, you will learn how to create screen capture PowerPoint visuals that are big enough to see because they zoom in on the key parts of the screen.
This preview shows you how to grab a screen capture and use it to illustrate a web site or application in your PowerPoint presentation.

If the human brain sees a million images per day and can instantly identify them, why couldn't software do that, too?