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.
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