Title: PowerPoint Tips

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Section/SPIG: Health Administration

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Visual improvization with PowerPoint

[Innovation Weblog, Tuesday, June 08, 2004]

Cliff Atkinson, author of the Beyond Bullets Weblog <http://sociablemedia.typepad.com/beyond_bullets/>, is a man on a mission: His goal is to get businesspeople to think beyond the typical (read boring) way everyone uses PowerPoint to convey information (zzzzz....) and to open their eyes to what's really possible in terms of visual storytelling and persuasion using this popular but often misused business tool.

Cliff recently explained how he created a visual improvization exercise <http://sociablemedia.typepad.com/beyond_bullets/2004/06/visual_improvis.html> to help a group of businesspeople understand this concept. Read this article:
<http://www.innovationtools.com/Weblog/innovationblog-detail.asp?ArticleID=468>.



Beyond Bullets: Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips

by Cliff Atkinson, Aug. 4, 2004

Western philosophers have been mapping a course to clear communication for more than 2,500 years, but judging by many PowerPoint presentations today, you would think we completely missed the boat. That means it's time for us to hit the PowerPoint pause button, circle back and catch up with the past.

In their study of rhetoric, the ancient Greeks described how people can persuade by appealing to reason, emotion, and the character of the speaker. Has anything changed since then? Read the full article: <http://www.beyondbullets.com/2004/08/99_perspiration.html>