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Some market research agencies must be paid by the page. Reports are filled with pages of text describing the market: United States: segment 1, 2, 3, volumes, revenues, pricing, Asia: the same, Europe: the same. All in long full text sentences ("The U.S. segment 1 market was $1.345bn in 2009, up 3.125% compared to the year before. On the other hand, segment 2 declined by 3.54% versus 2008 and is now $2.675bn in 2009").Text is not the right way to convey this information. A simple one-page table with rounded figures can replace the entire document.

The recent post on the Google blog about an update to the search algorithm is an excellent example of how to explain technology:

Mary Meeker is a well-known Internet analyst. Every few months she updates her presentation about the state of the online world. Usually, dense slides are boring and fail to communicate a message. Not when every slide is packed with interesting data like in Mary's decks.

Microsoft is quietly rolling out its office applications in the cloud. They announced that the web-version of major Office applications are live, at least in a number of countries/languages. In Israel I could get it to work.

The BP logo was a very powerful one: an environmentally green flower/sun beaming with lots of positive energy. (Apparently it is based on the symbol of Helios, the personification of the sun in Greek mythology).

When you pick a color for a shape, PowerPoint gives you the option to set its transparency. However, when you select a color for your font, this dialog box does not appear. How to recreate this effect in PowerPoint? Here is the work around (PowerPoint 2007).

We offer quality because we control the entire supply chain.A bullet point on a presentation that I came across last week. This statement could have come out of any presentation. People hear it, but do not internalize it.The real story is that competitors are small players working out of tiny factories in emerging markets stitching together poor quality products that just, but just, meet regulatory requirements. If that is the story, tell it.

One of the new slides I included in my presentation lessons for entrepreneurs deck: talk about the elephant in the room. Some issues are just so obvious that you have to address them (Mark Suster gives a few examples here).

I never saw this before: infographics on food packaging. Nice work by Audree Lapierre.More pictures here. Found via FFFFound.

A nice video based on a speech by Daniel Pink about what makes us tick. It is being drawn for you live.
Thank you Orli Naschitz.

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