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Graphical PowerPoint Slides
February 15th, 2007I had to give a presentation on Monday that had a very complicated graphical slide on it. I actually remembered to follow my own advice and built the picture with layers, a technique which is detailed in PowerPoint Tactics: Part 5 - Graphical Slides.
I happened to see someone else give a pitch later in the week with the same problem that tried to talk through all the complexity at once and they completely lost their audience. Hence, this spotlight.
Are you kidding me? Take a look at my picture. If I’m not a genuine, bona fide nerd I’m not sure who is. I'm currently employed as the Marketing and Internet Platform Solutions, Portals and Applications Chief Architect at Hewlett Packard (try saying that 5 times fast) and write here about career best practices for techies. Why? Because I wish I'd had this kind of free advice earlier in my own career and now I'm trying to "pay it forward". See more in 
