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Why do you present to a group if you waste your time and their time?
Fact: Every time you present you sell. Even if you don't like the idea of selling, you have to get use to the idea. Or get someone else to do the presentation. And by selling (when you present), you need to tell a story. But people will only listen to your story, if you sell using unconditional emotion and passion.Most of the speeches don't incite. And how long can you drone on? Get emotional and passionate about your idea. What I mean is that you cannot be boring by taking the middle road. Go for the risky road. Make a stand or fall with the boring middle.
How can you teach or preach by reading text? My daughter said to me the other day, two hours doing research on the Internet taught her more than her boring teacher could teach her in a year. Get a life teachers, preachers, speakers or presenter. Or get out. The web brings more choices and we don't need to listen to you.
If you teach, preach, present or make a speech start to sell your ideas emotionally. Tell a story. Start using technology and methodology available to you. Become a Beyond Bullet Point Expert today.
You can be exiting and successful when you stop using tradition Power Point and use the alternative: Beyond Bullet Points!
Get the book to Unbore Your Audiences and Sell Your Ideas
Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg-Other)
Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 05/16/2008)
What People Say About Beyond Bullets: One
Making a (Power)Point of Not Being Tiresome LA Times
PowerPoint has its critics. Edward R. Tufte, a Yale professor and an internationally recognized design expert, has written several essays on how the application has negatively affected the way office workers think.The cover of one Tufte's essays shows a photo of a parade of Communist soldiers lined up beneath a statue of Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. To Tufte, PowerPoint is a dictatorship of ideas.
[Cliff Atkinson] puts all this to use, of course, when he gives PowerPoint presentations on how to improve PowerPoint presentations. Those who have seen them say he is his own best advertisement for the method.
Robert Ernst died of a heart attack while taking the painkiller Vioxx in 2001. When a lawsuit filed on his behalf went to trial last summer, Cliff Atkinson, the owner of Sociable Media, designed a 253- slide PowerPoint presentation to drive home what Ernst's wife, Carol, had lost. A jury awarded the family $253 million.
I am sharing this article with you not to promote Cliff or his book. I am telling you about it because I cannot listen to one more boring speech, lecture or allow our kids to go through the pain.
My Own Opinion On South Africa Using Beyond Bullet Points
Communicate with passion and emotion
A Longer Beyond Bullet Point Video
A 20 Minute Presentation was reduce to 10 minutes
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Considering the choices a group have, either the "web or a remote control" do you think you can continue to ignore methodologies like Beyond Bullet Points when you present, teach preach or when you make a speech?
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What other people are saying about Beyond Bullet Points
"This fellow can make PowerPoint do things that I never knew could be done at all. What he says is not difficult to do, it's just a different way of thinking about how to make a presentation."
- John Matlock Amazon.com Top 500 Reviewer
"This book should be bundled with every copy of Microsoft Office."
- John D. Mitchell
- John Matlock Amazon.com Top 500 Reviewer
"This book should be bundled with every copy of Microsoft Office."
- John D. Mitchell
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Why Beyond Bullet Points?
Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate and Inspire: With Emotion
A growing number of people are expressing a sense of frustration with the conventional bullet point approach.People are bored when they read the slides and they have to listen to the presenter reading the same bullets on the PowerPoint slide.
Some presenters slam the whole speech on PowerPoint and read it line for line.
Painful Bullet Points:
1) Don't always make it easy for audiences to understand.
2) It creates obstacles between presenters and audiences.
3) It makes the atmosphere formal and stiff.
4) The audience feels confused and unclear.
5) Bullet point "dumb down" the important discourse that needs to happen for our society to function well.
That's why the idea of a story has emerged as a hot topic. But why is a story a more appropriate model for presentations?
According to Cliff Atkinson, "We can strike a balance between the benefits of story telling and the need for reasoning by applying a specific type of story structure.
What is Beyond Bullet Points?
Communicate using an emotional or passionate story to sell
People need to communicate. Beyond Bullet Points use technology to help you and me to communicate via an emotional story.
We don't need to know the story structure. The structure is part of the software. All we do is complete the blanks and the story follows.
Yes. It may sound easy and it is. But it needs practice. Because easy does not mean quick. You'll become a Beyond Bullet Point expert if you practice.
But the results will show the day you present with a story, with emotion and passion. Because you will succeed in selling your idea.
We don't need to know the story structure. The structure is part of the software. All we do is complete the blanks and the story follows.
Yes. It may sound easy and it is. But it needs practice. Because easy does not mean quick. You'll become a Beyond Bullet Point expert if you practice.
But the results will show the day you present with a story, with emotion and passion. Because you will succeed in selling your idea.
Beyond Bullet Point Resources I Use
- Beyond Bullet Points: Write a script
- According to Cliff "The single most important thing you can do to dramatically improve your presentations is to have a story to tell before you work on your PowerPoint file."
- "Transform Your PowerPoint Beyond Bullet Points"
- The presentation is an overview of the basics of the Beyond Bullet Pont approach. The recording quality of the graphics isn't the best, but there's enough there to get a visual idea.
- Presentation Professional
- Do you create presentations for a living? Are you interested in finding out more about the profession, and how you relate to it?
- A selection of articles on Beyond Bullet Points
- There's much more to PowerPoint than meets the eye, according to the set of articles below. For better or worse, PowerPoint is a tool that organizations have embraced to shape, articulate and contain their intellectual assets. Although the results do not always turn out as expected, with the right approach any organization can begin to unlock the stories buried in their presentations.
- 5 Ways to Reduce PPT Overload
- FREE download - 5 Ways to Reduce Power Point Overload
- My Blog where I experiment with Beyond Bullet Point And Video I deas
- This is my blog on communication issues I have. Where I play with Beyond Bullet Point ideas and host some of the videos I have created.
- FREE Beyond Bullet Point Resources
- Beyond Bullet Points describes several free online resources to help plan and design your presentations. To use these resources, refer to the corresponding pages in the book.
Note: Use these only if you have the Beyond Bullet Point Book. - The Beyond Bullet Point Add In
- What if you could structure your stories even faster directly in PowerPoint? With the Sociable Media PowerPoint Add-In, you can write out all of the key elements of your story directly into an innovative Story Editor interface.
Personally I prefer the Add-In. As it saves me stacks of time. - How is a presentation like a movie?
- A story from Microsoft's site.
If you're creating a presentation, try using Woody Allen for inspiration rather than the marketing department. That's right: By using PowerPoint and strategies similar to those that screenwriters use, you may reveal a potential to tell compelling stories you never knew you had. - Seth's little book on bad presentations
- This is a short (10 page) ebook on how to avoid bad presntations. Most people will agree with the Seth, but some like Cliff from "Beyond Bullet Points" will differ on one issue and that's how you handle notes.
Cliff uses the notes pages in PowerPoint for that and I have found it to work great. - Video Jam Of The Ideavirus
- I could not get my friends to read the ebook "Unleash The Ideavirus" by Seth Golding, so I made a video out of it.
And I know you can use the same idea to make your ideavirus smoother and to amplify it.
Get To The Bottom Of Mutimedia: Presentations
If you want to learn more about the research work and how to apply it to your presentations.
Thinking, Problem Solving, Cognition (A Series of books in psychology)
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Educational Psychology: A Cognitive Approach
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A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Abridged Edition
Amazon Price: $39.34 (as of 05/16/2008)
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e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
Amazon Price: $36.00 (as of 05/16/2008)
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Other Resources I use to make my Presentations "Smooth"
Presenting is one issue, what about distribution
You can make your Beyond Bullet Point Presentation a virus. But it needs a medium to multiply. And it will not multiply if you cannot easily infect other people with it.
- Camtasia
- Teaching and demonstrating visually is much more powerful than using words alone. But, getting the right group of people together for a training or demonstration can be expensive and inconvenient. That's why I use Camtasia to screen cast (video capture) my Beyond Bullet Point presentations.
And then convert it to MP3 or any other format, for my website, for business cards, for youTube.com or Google Video. - Snagit
- There are times when sharing exactly what you see on your screen is the quickest and clearest way to communicate. Using SnagIt, you can capture anything on your screen, then easily add text, arrows, or effects, and save the capture to a file or share it immediately by e-mail or instant messenger.
- YouTube
- As soon as I created my Beyond Bullet Point presentation, added voice to it and converted it I upload it to YouTube and Google Video.
YouTube is great if you opt for the Director's account. - Google Video
- Google Video and YouTube are great ways to attract more traffic to your site.
- TextALoud
- I use TextAloud to save time, because it converts my text files in to audio files.
TextAload is also a great product for people who cannot speak English but can write it.
What is TextALoud?
TextAloud uses voice synthesis to convert text into spoken audio. Listen on your PC or create MP3 or WMA files for use on portable devices like iPods, PocketPCs, and CD players. - The "Behind the Scenes" Blog of TechSmith Camtasia
- Find out about TechSmith behind-the-scenes, see screen casts and videos from other customers, and get more tips and tricks!
Additional Study Material: Beyond Bullet Points Expert
Commics and other
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 05/16/2008)
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 05/16/2008)
Universal Principles of Design
Amazon Price: $26.40 (as of 05/16/2008)
Video Basics
Amazon Price: $106.16 (as of 05/16/2008)
Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics
Amazon Price: (as of 05/16/2008)
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