{"id":10,"date":"2006-02-19T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-08-28T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T03:44:07","slug":"beyond-bullet-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Bullet Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=relaxandhavef-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0735620520%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_null_1%3Fs%3Debooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D551440\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Beyond Bullet Points<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">, by Cliff Atkinson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">After reading Tufte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s booklet on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=relaxandhavef-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0961392150%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1140371657%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8\">Cognitive Style of PowerPoint<\/a> and Doumont\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=relaxandhavef-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB00096ZKDM%2Fsr%3D8-2%2Fqid%3D1140371657%2Fref%3Dsr_1_2%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26v%3Dglance\">rebuttal<\/a>, I wanted to see what this pro-PowerPoint presentation style was about.  So, with full knowledge that the title was from Microsoft Press, I took the bait. It was very interesting.   The gist of the book is that your presentations will be better if you tell a story and your stories will be better if you script them out and use pictures\/graphic instead of bullet points.  I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tried it out yet, but I can imagine that it would be great to give a presentation like this.  Even if I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find pictures\/graphics to match every headline, I bet my presentations would benefit from scripting them using his suggestions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondbullets.com\/\">blog <\/a>is a good place to get a feel for his line of thinking and also get some samples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reading these works on theory and practice of effective visual communication to build up a working knowledge of tools and methods.  Atkinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book has piqued my interest in developing cinematic writing skills to go along with the visuals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Beyond Bullet Points, by Cliff Atkinson<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After reading Tufte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s booklet on the Cognitive Style of PowerPoint and Doumont\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rebuttal, I wanted to see what this pro-PowerPoint presentation style was about. So, with full knowledge that the title was from Microsoft Press, I took the bait. It was very interesting. The gist of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}