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Scientifically Speaking, Your PowerPoint Sucks

Scientifically Speaking, Your PowerPoint Sucks | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

A study from Harvard’s Decision Science Laboratory uses brain science to explain why we prefer certain types of presentations over others.


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Science can guide you to better presentations.

GwynethJones's curator insight, July 9, 2017 6:35 PM

It's not the powerpoint, it's you. OR Rather, your graphic design skillz.

rodrick rajive lal's curator insight, July 10, 2017 12:37 AM
PowerPoint has seen better days! It shouldn't be wrong to assume that info graphics and Prezi are better options! Gone are the days when we loved to experiment with sound effects, and yes those animations. Fact is, we need to get the information across as effectively and quickly as possible. Animations and special sound effects can only be a distraction and nothing else!
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PowerPoint Isn't Dead Yet: Three Presentation Tips That Still Work In 2017

PowerPoint Isn't Dead Yet: Three Presentation Tips That Still Work In 2017 | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

According to one recent survey, the top two reasons why people loathe PowerPoint presentations so march are that "the speaker reads the slides" and uses "full sentences for text." By now everyone should know not to read whole blocks of text to audiences verbatim. But it’s not enough to just convert them to bullet points, then present slide after slide of those, either.

If you really want to engage your audience and enhance your message, you need to use PowerPoint to tell a story—and you need to tell it as visually as possible. The good news is that you don't need to be a professional graphic designer (or even necessarily hire one) in order to do that. What might not look particularly sleek or aesthetically compelling can still be effective. Here's how to use imagery to get your point across and maximize your narrative impact, even if you aren't the most visually minded person....

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Here's how to give your PowerPoint presentation new life.

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The Free Design Templates You Need to Create Stunning Visual Marketing Content

The Free Design Templates You Need to Create Stunning Visual Marketing Content | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

According to Buffer, visual content is more than 40X more likely to get shared on social media than other types of content. And if you need any more evidence to convince you visuals are essential to your content marketing, just consider all these stats.

But honestly ... who's got time for all that? And I don't know about you, but I don't exactly have a degree in graphic design, or the budget to hire someone who does. So, what's a design-impaired marketer to do?

Luckily, over the past couple years, we've been on a mission at HubSpot to make visual content creation much less of an obstacle for the average marketer. How, you ask? Templates, my friends ... templates. And what's great about these templates is they're all built for software you probably already have on your computer: PowerPoint.


I'm going to walk you through all the visual content marketing templates we have available for free to download, and show you how we've used them ourselves to create awesome visuals right in PowerPoint....

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Useful collection of design templates for awesome visual content creation.

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16 PowerPoint Templates That Look Great in 2014

16 PowerPoint Templates That Look Great in 2014 | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Professional PowerPoint templates are a great way to look your best and impress your audience the next time you give a presentation. Here's an excellent set of 16 PowerPoint templates to impress in your next marketing presentation.

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Very tasty designs in these 16 new PowerPoint templates. Worth reviewing.

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10 PowerPoint Time Saving Tips for Way Faster Presentations

10 PowerPoint Time Saving Tips for Way Faster Presentations | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
These 10 PowerPoint tips will save you time and have you creating presentations faster. These PowerPoint time-saving tips will cut your presentation design time

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Smart tips for faster PowerPoint creation.

Baiba Svenca's curator insight, March 30, 2017 12:41 PM

You can make your PPT faster but first you need to learn how. This article is all about it.

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How to Record Voice Narration for Your PowerPoint 2016 Presentation - dummies

How to Record Voice Narration for Your PowerPoint 2016 Presentation - dummies | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

AA voice narration in a PowerPoint 2016 presentation is sophisticated indeed. A self-playing, kiosk-style presentation can be accompanied by a human voice such that the narrator gives the presentation without actually being there.

To narrate a presentation, a working microphone must be attached or built in to your computer. You record the narration for slides one slide at a time or all at one time, and the recording is stored in the PowerPoint file, not in a separate audio file.

The best way to record voice narrations is to do it on a slide-by-slide basis. You can record across several slides, but getting your voice narration and slides to be in sync with one another can be a lot of trouble....

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Here's a very useful tip for recording voice narrations that will help your PowerPoint presentations come alive.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, November 18, 2016 1:09 AM

Here's a very useful tip for recording voice narrations that will help your PowerPoint presentations come alive.

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PresentiGO - the new PowerPoint alternative

PresentiGO - the new PowerPoint alternative | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
PresentiGo is a lightweight, effective tool for marketing and sales people that enhances your PowerPoint presentations with features like 3D, interactivity, animations and improves the team’s productivity and slides performance, based on real-time data and user feedback.

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Another promising new presentations tool to test drive..

ManufacturingStories's curator insight, August 14, 2015 8:09 AM
#Presentations #PowerPoint #Software
Stefania Pinsone's curator insight, August 23, 2015 3:54 AM

Comparing with PowerPoint is like to go from analogic to digital!

Willem Kuypers's curator insight, August 24, 2015 8:25 AM

Encore un logiciel qui peut faire mieux que Powerpoint. 

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How To Create Infographics Using PowerPoint | PowerPoint Presentation

How To Create Infographics Using PowerPoint | PowerPoint Presentation | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Aside from being time-saving, using PowerPoint for infographics is easy. To start with, you can create infographics using hundreds of readily available PowerPoint templates and infographic templates from our website. All you have to do is look for a template that best matches your theme, subject, topic or idea and you can easily work around that template. For more specific needs, you can read on and follow the instructions on how to create infographics using PowerPoint....

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This is a smart little tutorial on infographics created from PowerPoint.

CTD Institute's curator insight, December 1, 2014 11:34 AM

reliable tool available to anyone with a computer.

John O'Connor's curator insight, December 2, 2014 2:41 AM

Haven't tried it yet but worth a go...