PowerPoint, presentation design, and eLearning articles, including:

• Presentation technology

Presentations are moving on, becoming more visual, animated, and interactive, but most of us are still stuck with using the same presentation remotes that we’ve had for years. There are quite a few alternatives available now, so are any of them worth using over the standard clicker?

• PowerPoint design
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When creating presentations it can be easy to go a little overboard. We feel like we need to cram in as much information as possible. Creating slides with barely any blank space left bombarded with text, images and icons. Here are five presentation design tips to help you keep your presentations simple and clean, allowing you to tell a powerful and effective story.

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint animation
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There are two types of people in the world: those that use PowerPoint animation, and those that don’t. Read on to find out how to strike the right balance between too much and too little animation in your presentations.

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint animation
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Are you frustrated by the wheel animation in PowerPoint? Do you want it to animate anti-clockwise, or from a different starting point? Look no further.

• Visual communication / Industry insights

Presentation Zen was published ten years ago. Al Gore won his Oscar for a film based on a presentation in 2006. Amazon sell more than 38,000 books with ‘presentation’ in the title, and more than 7,500 with ‘PowerPoint’. Which all sort or raises the question Why are so many presentations still crap? All those books, decks, all that advice – Is it even making a difference?

• PowerPoint design / Visual communication
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 5 years, you’ll likely have seen the use of colourful icons punctuating texts, tweets, emails, adverts. It seems these little pictures are becoming a weighty force in how we communicate. What does this mean for language? And most importantly, what does it have to do with PowerPoint presentations?!

• PowerPoint design

I’m no designer, but I have had my fair share of painting classes and they’ve affected the way I think about color and in turn, the way I think about making slides. Color theory is one of the foundational concepts in fine arts, but it also has great relevance in many other areas, including presentations. Let's take a look at how color can help improve your next presentation.

• Presentation skills
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As with many things in life, when you’re presenting, getting started is often the most challenging part. Often, once people get into the flow on a particular slide, they are fine. But starting off strongly, pulling together the first few words or phrases once you've clicked on to a blank new slide is typically something that people struggle with. Here are a few handy tips to keep up your sleeve for those mind-blank moments. 

• Presentation skills / Sales presentations / Visual communication
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We live in a noisy world. Advertisers constantly clamour for our attention and we’re much less likely to engage with something if we have to actively seek it out. The trend is that content is becoming bitesize. So how can we create content that will keep audiences engaged? Here are ten tips.

• Presentation skills
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Do you class yourself as an introvert? Does the thought of presenting bring you out in the sweats? Don’t worry, we’ve got some great tips for you – and do you know what, extroverts can learn something too!