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Microsoft Office Live Meeting Helps You Avoid PowerPoint Overload

I’ve become a big fan of the webinar. I think it’s a powerful way to take an hour and get some great learning skills. Microsoft Office Live Meeting has been running these complimentary web seminars for some time and although some do have a sales pitch to them, others have been full of killer content.
On March 23rd, 2006, they are offering up How To Prevent PowerPoint Overload featuring Cliff Atkinson (Author & Speaker, Sociable Media). Atkinson wrote the book, Beyond Bullet Points, and consults top lawyers and Fortune 500 people on how to create a memorable presentation.
Here’s how the website describes How To Prevent PowerPoint Overload:
“Aligning your multimedia message with the way the mind works. When the lights go down and a presenter starts reading bullet points from a slide, do you ever feel bored, frustrated, or sleepy? If so, there’s research that indicates that it’s probably not your fault. It turns out that the conventional bullet-point approach can quickly overload the ability of the human mind to understand information. But now there’s a better way. By understanding the basic research that explains how the mind works, you can radically transform your PowerPoint approach to produce simpler and clearer communications. By the end of the seminar, you’ll have the concepts and tools you need to start presenting more clearly and effectively!
In this seminar you will learn how to:
– Respect the limitations of short-term memory.
– Use Notes Page view to balance visual and verbal elements.
– Use visual cues to reinforce for both you and the audience the most important points.”
I think we’ve all seen our fair share of PowerPoint gone wrong.
You can register here: How To Prevent PowerPoint Overload Registration.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.