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I read a lot of books.  At one time in my life I was spending at least $1000 per month on books...back before I had a mortgage and two car payments and a wife that goes crazy for Coach purses.  I rarely read productivity books about applications that I use.  It's not that I don't think that I can be more productive, but a lot of them just aren't written with me in mind.

Back at the Microsoft PDC conference in 2005, I was walking through the Microsoft book store and came across the first edition of a book titled Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson.  Beyond Bullet Points was about making your PowerPoint presentations better and improving how they're written.  Mr. Atkinson talked a lot about making your presentation into a story, and turning that story into a PowerPoint.  I liked what I saw as I scanned through the book and bought it.

Fast forward a couple of years, and out comes the second edition of Beyond Bullet Points, this time targeting PowerPoint 2007.  Same great book, and a lot of improved and refined content.

I can honestly say that I use the story templates for Beyond Bullet Points on every PowerPoint presentation that I do today.  It has revolutionized how I go about planning my presentations.  My presentations are no longer about throwing a couple of slides together.  Each slide is planned and documented to present the story that I'm trying to share.

I highly recommend this book for anyone that does PowerPoint presentations, or for anyone that really wants to learn how to do PowerPoint presentations.

I haven't tried this yet, but I definitely will be trying it very soon.

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