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Design Professional Charts in PowerPoint

Overview If you have attended any presentation using PowerPoint®, you know how annoying those poorly made charts can be (you know, the ones where you can't make immediate sense out of the bars and numbers). But you can easily avoid these built-in presentation flaws by becoming aware of a few basic "information design" guidelines that help make the numbers talk and keep the fluff from confusing your audience.

Join us for a Webcast to start learning these PowerPoint fundamentals. Watch as Communication design expert Robin Good, connecting from Rome, showcases 10 information design guidelines that you can immediately put to use to improve the legibility and effectiveness of your Powerpoint graphs and charts.

At this Webcast we will:

Point out the pitfalls of PowerPoint's default features
Demonstrate how to turn an ugly PowerPoint presentation into something legible and professional

Speakers:
Robin Good, Executive Editor, MasterViews.com and Eric Choi, GoToMeeting Corporate Product Marketing Manager, Citrix Online

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Citrix Online
Live Date	23rd May 2006 00:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Help Desk, Methodology, Customer Support Services, Training and Certification, Data Visualization, Training, Sales - Marketing, Career Development, Knowledge and Data Management, Services, Finance

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