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  • Don’t Let PowerPoint® Ruin Your Presentation
    Published 21 January 2009
    Our good friend and WSN partner Rick Altman has authored a Working Smarter eCourse for us entitled “ Don’t Let PowerPoint® Ruin Your Presentation ,” which you can sign up for by clicking here . This is the first lesson of his eCourse...
  • Three Ways SmartDraw 2009 Can Make Presenting Easier for You
    Published 15 December 2008
    Given that we just published a free eCourse all about creating presentations with captivating introductions , I think now is a good time to remind some of our readers about all of the cool ways that SmartDraw can make life easier for the average businessperson...
  • Presentations are not Limited to PowerPoint®
    Published 25 September 2008
    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...
  • SmartDraw.com to Announce SmartDraw 2009’s Improved PowerPoint® Integration at PowerPoint® Live 2008
    Published 19 September 2008
    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...
  • Sample PowerPoint® Presentation: U.S. Election - Battleground States by the Numbers
    Published 18 September 2008
    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...
  • Screencast: Building Sequenced Charts in PowerPoint® Using SmartDraw 2009
    Published 16 September 2008
    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...
  • Screencast: Contrasting Sequencing with Death by PowerPoint®
    Published 15 September 2008
    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®...
  • The Case for Animation
    Published 11 September 2008
    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...
  • Announcing SmartDraw 2009 – Automatically Sequence SmartDraw Drawings in PowerPoint®
    Published 9 September 2008
    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...


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