5 Ways to Make PowerPoint Sing! (And Dance!)

Great tips in the video, thanks. I liked the suggestion to “think of your slides as digital scenery.”

Loved the point about creating meaning vs. sitting through another meeting. That’s something every presenter should carry with them. Good stuff.

Stellar deck. It’s exciting that this will be included in every copy of PowerPoint 2010. Hopefully it will inspire people not to settle with their slides.

great rules and professional illustrations but the movie itself is lame as well as PP in general

you should try Keynote and see the difference *)

http://vimeo.com/7117912

Bravo! Well done — superb timing. It is a great example of what I was thinking when I called PowerPoint one of the Top 5 Elearning Tools of the year on Technorati (fyi: http://technorati.com/technology/article/top-5-e-learning-tools-of/ )

Well put and nice way to tell a story and create meaning.

Good thing you’re working with Msft but WHY OH WHY does PPT 2010 look like a rip off of Apple’s Keynote? I mean the transitions, themes, animations etc have always existed in Keynote since 2003!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZqYn77dT3s

By the way, Keynote was built with Compatibility in mind and can edit/play .ppt files. But can PPT 2010 edit/play keynote (.key) files?

Excellent… I’m not a designer, and I’m not a techie, I’m just a normal dude with a normal job – and I totally understood exactly what you were trying to say – Learnt a lot, and am very grateful to you for that. Thanks for that!

Once again it seems some (few) folks still didn’t get it … it is NOT about software, it is about presentations and that means contents and how you structure, design and deliver it!

When it comes to software…

1. If you’re a presentations designer it is about what you can do with it, as in “being skilled enough to overcome its limitations” and for what I could see from one of the suggested links, well… never mind…

2. And it is also about functionality, interaction and compatibility between designers and clients which is reflected by a “slight detail” called (worldwide) market share and coming to this… Windows/PC’s: 92.2% vs Apple Mac: 5.1%…
(Global Market Share Statistics-Dec2009)

That’s definitely more like video than a slide presentation. How difficult will it be for your average person to create something like this?

Also, when does Ppt 2010 come out?

Really impressive stuff, great job! I’ve linked to the video for my marketing students…they love it.

One question – were there special tools in PPT2010 for adding the audio? I’m wondering how you got the audio to sync so nicely with the animated text…are there ticks or was that just hard work and trial and error?

Thanks…again, impressive job. It got me to download PPT2010 beta.

Thanks for this. I’m glad that this has been retweeted so many times. Maybe now there won’t be quite as much ‘death by powerpoint’.

Presentations offer an amazing opportunity to win people’s hearts and minds and I see it wasted day after day.

Well done! It’s comforting to know I’ve been following “The Rules”, in spite of myself, throughout my graduate program. After sitting through dozens of same-old, same-old PPTs, I had had enough and dove deep into Garr’s World. I’ve never looked back.

Are there animated diagrams?

Looking for diagrams that illustrates like a merry-go-round where the first “horse” or box/picture at the forefront can be rotated out as the next picture/diagram rotates to the forefront.