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Free color contrast checker for PowerPoint

One of the most common mistakes we see when it comes to accessibility in presentations is poor color contrast. When there isn’t enough contrast between the colors on your slides,...

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How to run Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Virtual instructor-led trainings, or VILTs, are trainings run in a virtual environment, like video calls, by an instructor or a facilitator. At BrightCarbon we work with our clients to create...

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5 ways to make the most of Google Slides animation features

How can you bring your Google Slides presentation to life and engross your audience further? The answer is simple: animation! When used well, animation is a great tool, helping to...

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PowerPoint vs Keynote: Let’s compare and contrast

Can a PowerPoint user be converted to Keynote? Is this the perfect excuse to use Macs more? And how well do they work on iPad? Read on… PowerPoint has been...

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How to create effective visual training content

Training. A word powerful enough to send shivers down the spines of those tortured by countless uninspiring , bullet point laden training presentation s on … You can’t even remember...

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A lot of people don’t know that companies like BrightCarbon even exist. So, unsurprisingly, when they find out we do, they have a number of questions. Why do companies outsource...

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Choosing a presentation design agency

Choosing a presentation design agency is a lot harder than buying a product. With a product, unless there’s some defect, you get the same thing as 1000s of others. So...

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Insights from an education aficionado: Q&A with Bianca Woods

Bianca Woods is the founder of the learning and development studio Clever Raptor, and Senior Manager of Programming for The eLearning Guild. She took a short reprieve from hopping between...

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Advanced PowerPoint grids and guides

Wonky alignment and badly proportioned slides can easily distract your audience. In the best-case scenario, they’ll lose focus for a second, wondering whether you put this presentation together on the...

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Review: Power-user

Power-user is a Microsoft PowerPoint add-in that provides you with visual elements and tools to help you make better and more impactful business documents. At BrightCarbon, we spend most of...

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How to get the most out of PowerPoint and PDFs

Back in the day the Microsoft suite ruled – everything was Word docs and PowerPoint shows, and even Publisher – shout out to all of you who remember that one!...

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Insights from a design doyen: Q&A with Mark Heaps

Mark Heaps is the Executive Director for Heaps LLC digital communications studio in Austin, Texas. He’s also a founder of the Click Presentation Design Conference that runs as part of...

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Insights from an eLearning strategist: Q&A with Clark Quinn

Clark Quinn is a learning technology, design, and strategy consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has made a career out of aligning corporate and organizational goals with learning...

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Types of presentations: Towards a taxonomy

Too many self-styled experts don’t clearly recognise that there are many different types of presentations. What works in the ballroom may not work in the meeting room. By failing to...

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