Design Professional Charts in PowerPoint

June 20th, 2008

If you have attended any presentation incorporating 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 Citrix 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.

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Tame Your Marketing Workflow with Adobe Acrobat

June 20th, 2008

Whether you’re in product marketing, public relations, brand development or corporate communications, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software can give your marketing programs spot-on message, greater control, smooth and timely execution, and stronger, more targeted results.

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The Global Product Design Benchmark Report: Managing Complexity as Product Design Goes Global

June 20th, 2008

The challenge of keeping an engineering team working efficiently without getting in each other’s way can be difficult to manage. Product development projects now involve people from multiple departments trying to collapse product introduction lead times. As if this was not complex enough, many companies are distributing these resources around the globe and forming virtual teams of people from different companies. Global design has cost benefits that are very attractive to today’s manufacturer, but adds new communication, control, and collaboration challenges and intensifies existing problem areas such as protecting intellectual property.

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