Nothing can revive a DOA PowerPoint presentation faster than animations. Applied judiciously, these motion effects can bring dynamism to your deck and make your message more powerful. Using the ...

This month marks the national “Say No to PowerPoint Week,” an occasion that allows us to pause the endless tedium of text heavy, boring slides that march our audiences into comatose complacency.

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PowerPoint presentations can be a bit boring...okay, let's be honest here: mind-numbingly boring, okay? However, tech blogger Leisa Reichelt of Disambiguity came up with a way to give a more human ...

But Cliff Atkinson, who runs a one-man, Los Angeles-based company called Sociable Media, wants to change all that. Atkinson published a book last year called “Beyond Bullet Points” about how to combat ...

I’ve posted repeatedly on how to make presentations more effective, but it occurred to me today that there’s a simple way to make any presentation better: replace these all-too-common, boring slides ...