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Presentations are not Limited to PowerPoint®

Published 25 September 8 9:54 AM | Aaron

PowerPoint® is great – it’s probably the easiest tool for cranking out presentations, regardless of purpose. However, I think it’s worth mentioning that PowerPoint® isn’t the end-all, be-all of presentations. Allow me to...

Filed under: Presentations, PowerPoint

SmartDraw.com to Announce SmartDraw 2009’s Improved PowerPoint® Integration at PowerPoint® Live 2008

Published 19 September 8 5:53 AM | Aaron

On September 21 st , 2008, SmartDraw.com will formally announce and demonstrate its improved PowerPoint® integration at Rick Altman’s PowerPoint® Live 2008 conference, which is being held here in our home town of San Diego, California. Rick...

Filed under: Presentations, PowerPoint, Rick Altman

Sample PowerPoint® Presentation: U.S. Election - Battleground States by the Numbers

Published 18 September 8 9:59 AM | Aaron

If you watched our previous two screencasts, one where we contrasted poor presentation techniques with the sequenced presentation approach and one where we showed you how to build sequenced PowerPoint® presentations using SmartDraw 2009 , then you...

Filed under: Presentations, PowerPoint, Sequencing

Screencast: Building Sequenced Charts in PowerPoint® Using SmartDraw 2009

Published 17 September 8 6:23 AM | Aaron

As a follow-up to yesterday's screencast where we demonstrated the difference between the sequenced presentation approach and Death by PowerPoint® we'd like to show you how we actually produced that presentation using SmartDraw 2009. So it is our...

Filed under: Presentations, Charts and Graphs, Screencast, PowerPoint, Sequencing

Screencast: Contrasting Sequencing with Death by PowerPoint®

Published 16 September 8 6:51 AM | Aaron

Over the past few days we have made the case for using animation in your PowerPoint® presentations , and today we intend to reinforce our argument with a powerful illustration. In today's screencast we are going to compare and contrast "Death by PowerPoint®...

Filed under: Presentations, Screencast, PowerPoint, Sequencing

The Case for Animation

Published 11 September 8 12:7 PM | Aaron

Rick Altman said the following in an earlier guest post called “ Thriving with Animation :” “Animation might be single-handedly responsible for more PowerPoint® annoyance than all the other annoyances combined. Between Edward Tufte...

Filed under: Presentations, PowerPoint, Sequencing

Announcing SmartDraw 2009 – Automatically Sequence SmartDraw Drawings in PowerPoint®

Published 9 September 8 7:38 AM | Aaron

Normally we don’t focus an entire blog entrie on our product, SmartDraw. But given that we’ve officially released the newest version of SmartDraw today, I thought I might make an exception. Today we released SmartDraw 2009, which comes with...

Filed under: Presentations, Screencast, PowerPoint

Screencast: Storyboarding for More Effective Presentations

Published 30 July 8 11:30 AM | Aaron

In this screencast Kenneth Roberts shows you how to storyboard a presentation using flowcharts . If you'd like to read our accompanying PDF, "Working Smarter with Presentation Storyboards" then download it here . --> This SmartDraw screencast requires...

Filed under: Presentations, Flowcharts, PowerPoint

Thriving with Animation

Published 22 July 8 5:55 AM | Aaron

This is a guest post contributed by Rick Altman , a world-renowned presentation consultant, PowerPoint expert, author, and the organizer of PowerPoint Live . Animation might be single-handedly responsible for more PowerPoint annoyance than all the other...

Filed under: Presentations, PowerPoint, Rick Altman