You’ve been there -  eyelids growing heavy, mind wandering, sitting through another boring business presentation. And what happens when it’s your turn to speak? Chances are you are committing some of the same presentations sins as everyone else. One of the greatest of these sins is the misuse of presentation software like PowerPoint.

Slides laden with bulleted text are not ingredients for a powerful presentation. But many of us don’t know any better. The templates provided by the software seem to beg for bullets and text and slide titles and logos and clipart. What were meant as tools to …

The use of Flash is not limited to cute little animations on web pages. Flash is a very powerful software that allows for intelligent and useful interactivity. And when Flash integrated video, it increased the possibilities even more.

Here’s how we have used Flash at MB/I:

• Sales presentations
• Product demos
• Software wizards
• Interactive educational pieces
• Screensavers
• Calculators
• “Build your own” scenarios
• Training presentations
• Multi-level portfolios
• Advertising banners
• Tradeshow loops
• Animated cartoon strips
• and of course, animations for websites!

Flash can support deep layers of logic. One of calculators we built was an interactive ROI calculator. The formulas and logic involved in developing took up about 100 8.5″ X 11″ printed pages. One of the longest …