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| Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire | 
 enlarge | Author: Cliff Atkinson
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 2726
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0735623872
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.58
EAN: 9780735623873
ASIN: 0735623872
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Update October 29, 2007
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Great update to the original and well worth buying again. The Beyond Bullet Points process is easier to follow and the explanations of the "science" behind the methodology are a great resource for anyone trying to eliminate Death by PowerPoint in the corporate world.
 200 pages of fluff May 20, 2008
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is awful. It promises to show you how to create powerpoint presentations that motivate and inspire. But instead, it gives you a couple of pages teaching you the author's format (basically, a Hollywood script, in 3 Acts) then spends the rest of the book telling you how to create hidden slides, how to insert clip-art, and tons of "filler" pages of "top 10 things to remember" that are, frankly, common sense.
The Hollywood format, does look somewhat useful for creating a dialog with your audience and the supporting slides for that conversation. But it seems the author had about 20 pages of content, but needed to create another 180 pages so he could sell a book. And in that 180 pages he fails to discuss important topics like how to summarize ideas crisply on a slide, and instead pushes all the content into the notes section, and uses the slide as a place to put clip art of a sailboat, or something equally pointless. All the content in the notes section? Why not just use a Word document then?
I returned this book to Barnes & Noble, disgusted by the shallow treatment of an important topic. I almost never return books, but this so completely failed to fulfill the book's promise that I felt swindled.
 Was hoping for more! December 26, 2007
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was quite disappointed in this book. If you are new at giving presentations and need a place to start, this book will be ok. For anyone with minimal experience you will waste your money. The extras on the CD are not worth installing. Very disappointed.
It helps you to create the fantastic PowerPoint that proved to be a great success December 14, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a Chinese freshman who is majoring in marketing in a China university. My schoolmates produce sucking PowerPoint presentation all the time. They actually don't realize that presentation is a kind of communication. They just read the font on the screen!
Last week, I made my vivid live presentation by using the method provided in this book. After that, the audience were shocked and one even asked me if I made the Powerpoint all by myself.
"It's unbelievable!"
"Of course, I am using beyond bullet point."I said.
It really does work December 8, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have heard Cliff speak in several webinars, most recently demonstrating his system, Beyond Bullet Points, with mindmapping software. Convinced, I bought the book and used it to prepare a 90-minute presentation to a professional audience and was extremely happy with the result.
As a first-time user it took many hours longer than if I had defaulted to slides full of bullet points. And, at times, finding the information you need in the book can be tedious. As one reviewer has already stated, it could benefit from a more vigorous editing. What is lacking is a chapter that pulls all the steps together in a more 'recipe-like' format. That being said, I won't ever revert to bullet point presentations again. This book is definitely worth purchasing even if you only give one presentation a year that matters.
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