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Is this Microsoft's answer to Death by PowerPoint?

Everyone’s familiar with PowerPoint. Which means everyone is also familiar with “Death by PowerPoint”. The misuse of a great presentation tool has soured the brand name and sent everyone in search of PowerPoint alternative. Microsoft is now looking to combat that.

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Mark Simeon, July 18, 2019

Great Icebreakers for your next event

With the increasing implementation of event tech at large scale events, as an event organiser, you’ll want to ensure the audience engages as much as possible with the speakers and content. After all, event tech is one of the best tools to prove the event ROI. For this to happen, it’s a fantastic idea to ensure the audience is comfortable using the event tech.

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Mark Simeon, July 12, 2019

5 benefits of using word clouds at events

Word clouds are loved by presenters and audiences alike. Here are 5 why you should incorporate them into your next event!

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Bradley Smith, April 25, 2019

3 Crafting Rules for Effective Presentation Questions

Questions are one of the fastest (and easiest) ways to engage your audience during a live presentation.

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Taylor Croonquist, April 11, 2019

7 Interactive Ideas to Leave Attendees Wanting More

Researching and purchasing event-tech is the first step. Knowing how to best utilise the tech comes next. With this in mind, here are seven interactive ways to create knockout sessions at your next event.

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Tom Dally, February 20, 2019

The Top 10 PowerPoint Alternatives for 2019

PowerPoint was first rolled out by Microsoft in 1987. Since then, they’ve added a raft of features with subsequent versions. It’s been the undisputed presentation king over the past three decades and rightly so - it was one of the first mainstream presentation tools. It revolutionised events, education and training, and everything in between. However, there’s now a plethora of new and exciting alternatives that enable even novice users to create highly visual, engaging and customised presentations.

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Tom Dally, January 17, 2019

Supercharge your Next Presentation

Presentations are an eventuality that most of us experience on a regular occurrence in our professional lives. We witness hundreds of presentations a year with one recurring challenge...how do you marry data visualisation and audience engagement?

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Tom Dally, December 12, 2018

Slide Sharing in a Distracted World

In an era where many audiences are being pulled in 100 different directions be it from social media, work emails or the 24/7 news cycle, creating an engaging and captivating presentation that retains the attention of your audience is essential to the success of the event.

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Tom Dally, February 26, 2018

The Best PowerPoint Alternatives in 2018

A recent poll indicated that Microsoft PowerPoint is as popular with younger tech-savvy individuals as it is with Baby Boomers. With hundreds of millions of users worldwide, it has been the dominant player in the market for the past two decades. Now don’t get us wrong, we’re big fans of PowerPoint, but having a couple presentation substitutes up your professional sleeve is never a bad thing.

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Tom Dally, January 12, 2018

5 Quick Psychology Hacks to Boost Your Next Presentation

For some people, giving a presentation is as easy as pie, they find it exciting and in many cases liberating. But, then there are others, who consider giving a presentation in front an audience, nothing less than a nightmare.

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Guest Author, August 15, 2017