Office Casual: How pictures make great PowerPoint (with Fotolia)

If a picture says 1000 words, why are we still using loads of them in our presentations? Here are some advantages of using images and a new add-in from Fotolia so you can search for great images without leaving PowerPoint or Word.


Office Casual: Why pictures make great PowerPoint (with Fotolia)

You can download the free add-in from Fotolia for Word and PowerPoint 2007 here.

Read about Laurence Lessig’s method of PowerPoint at Presentation Zen. You can download a free pdf of Seth Godin’s short publication Really Bad PowerPoint, and a watch brief video of Guy Kawasaki’s 10-20-30 Presentation Rule of PowerPoint.

See more examples about PowerPoint without bullets in this entry to the Office Hours blog, including books you might want to chase down. More news on the program can be found in PowerPoint Team Blog--Doug Thomas

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  • I am very concerned about the terms in the Silverlight license, specifically those below and especially those between the inserted "***" marks: “Microsoft may access or disclose information about you, *** including the content of your communications ***, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers or the public.” Noting that “content of your communications” is not an intrinsically defined term and could well apply to all content moving though a computer, doesn’t this seem to be an incredibly broad right Microsoft is securing – especially in light of the limited review such license terms are likely to have ? It would seem that Microsoft has made the 4th amendment essentially without meaning when it comes to any computer running this software. I know the argument will come back that one would only be concerned with this if one were doing something illegal, but searches in general, confidentiality, subsequent custody of information, political and commercial conflicts and several other areas are ripe with very proper questions well before any claim of criminal activity on a user’s part could even be asserted. Should this be accepted ? Should it not be tightly constrained to Microsoft’s legitimate fields of interest ? Where will it end ?

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