Microsoft to Publish Blogger's PowerPoint Book
Microsoft Press will publish Cliff Atkinson's "Beyond Bullet Points", bringing to print the most popular online resource for PowerPoint. The book, scheduled for February 2005, will introduce advanced PowerPoint users to innovative communication techniques inspired by Hollywood storyboarding, Greek philosophy and pop culture.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 26, 2004 -- Microsoft Press will publish Cliff
Atkinson's "Beyond Bullet Points", bringing to print the most popular online
resource for PowerPoint. The book, scheduled for February 2005, will introduce
advanced PowerPoint users to innovative communication techniques inspired by
Hollywood storyboarding, Greek philosophy and pop culture. “By publishing this
book, Microsoft Press is throwing the door wide open to fresh thinking about
PowerPoint,” said author Cliff Atkinson. PowerPoint is the presentation graphics
software program from Microsoft which is used in virtually every business
context, from small meetings to online seminars to formal investor
presentations.
“There is a large audience of smart and savvy PowerPoint
users who are eager for new ideas and inspiration,” said Atkinson. “If you’re a
manager, director, vice president or CEO, PowerPoint is probably your second
language. This book will help you speak it more fluently.” Where other books on
the market focus on beginners, "Beyond Bullet Points" will help intermediate and
advanced PowerPoint users to present their ideas clearly and simply.
The
book is inspired by Atkinson’s "Beyond Bullets" weblog at http://www.beyondbullets.com, which has been featured in both
Business 2.0 and Fast Company magazine weblogs, as well as dozens of other blogs
from Japan to Italy. “People want to move beyond boring bullet points,” said
Atkinson. “When they start applying new techniques instead, they begin to tap
into new insights and unrealized creativity.”
The "Beyond Bullet Points"
book will feature dozens of short, digestible and easy-to-apply techniques, and
is designed to become a useful desktop resource whenever people work in
PowerPoint. Atkinson’s innovative PowerPoint approach has been adopted by some
of the world’s largest companies. He is a writer, speaker and president of
Sociable Media in Los Angeles at http://www.sociablemedia.com and was a captain in the U.S. Air
Force before earning his MBA and joining the ranks of the business community as
an independent management consultant.
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