Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire, Second Edition

Introduction

I ORIGINALLY WROTE Beyond Bullet Points to offer a new way for people to create Microsoft^® Office PowerPoint^® presentations more effectively. I never imagined that shortly after the book’s publication, the impact of the Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) approach would make headlines in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. Since then, interest in BBP has elevated the first edition of this book to bestseller status, at one point reaching the #4 sales rank out of all books at Amazon.com. It turns out that BBP is striking a chord with people who have a simple desire—to move beyond the bullet points that keep both presenters and audiences trapped, frustrated, and alienated from one another.

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