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  <title><![CDATA[Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft  PowerPoint  to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg-Other)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Improve your presentationsand increase your impactwith 50 powerful, practical, and easy-to-apply techniques for Microsoft PowerPoint. With Beyond Bullet Points, youll take your presentation skills to the next levellearning innovative ways to design and deliver your message. Organized into five sectionsDistill Your Ideas, Structure Your Story, Visualize Your Message, Create a Conversation, and Maintain Engagementthe book uses clear, concise language and just the right visuals to help you understand concepts and start getting better results. Not just a how-to for PowerPoint, this book will help take your presentation skills to the next level! Features 50 innovative, easy-to-apply techniques to help you clarify, visualize, and present your ideas using PowerPoint. Author is a leading presentation-skills consultant. Targeted for intermediate to advanced level users of PowerPoint who are looking to stand out from the crowd and make sure people remember what they say.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Cliff Atkinson]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 23 18:54:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't understand what others see in it: I was disappointed having bought this book based on good reviews, so here's my review: <br/> <br/>1. The author provides just one tool for one particular type of presentation: &quot;pitch an idea to your bosses&quot;. The tool is a 3-act presentation using few words and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20837097">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book completely changed how I design presentations. It's a sure-fire cure for &quot;Death by PowerPoint&quot;, and instead lets you use the tool for what it's really designed for - a visual medium that complements the message of the speaker with dramatic and relevant images. It also had me thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63526439">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great read - a different approach from the 10-point-font, thousand word PowerPoints that are so prevalent!  I use this approach for all of my presentations now.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far the best book I've read on creating dynamic Power Point presentations.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After sitting though many abusive Power Point presentations, I got to thinking there's got to be a better way and began doing research...Atkinson's approach is refreshing and his challenge to use PP as a story telling tool rather than a bludgeon is compelling.<br/><br/>It's easy to get frustrated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7203305">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book sort of assumes you're an idiot and teaches you how to create an effective PowerPoint presentation from scratch. Writing often succumbs to the &quot;three point adjective&quot; syndrome. But I did gain a lot of pointers from reading. I would recommend to anyone who needs to create presentat...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book teaches how to use reason, emotions and logic in your presentations. It proposes a structure based on film-making analogies.<br/><br/>However, the general philosophy was usable for me mostly. A big part of the book seemed inapplicable. It is worth reading though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting but techniques not appropriate to most situations I present in.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't meet expectations, but admittedly I had high expectations.  ]]></body>
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