PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Free YawnBuster Giveaway

Indezine is pleased to share with you information about YawnBuster. YawnBuster is an interactive PowerPoint® add-in by Harbinger Knoweldge Products that brings alive your slides with group activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions. And best of all, you can add all this stuff on your slides without leaving the familiar PowerPoint environment.

We are giving away 5 copies of YawnBuster — all you need to do is fill in this form. Winners will be announced on the Indezine site, and individual winners will receive their licenses by e-mail!

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint

World’s Best Presentation Contest ’09 from SlideShare

SlideShare announced the 3rd of their successful presentation contest series — this one is called the World’s Best Presentation Contest ’09.

You need to submit your presentation as part of this contest that runs from August 3rd to September 8th, 2009. There are three contest judges: Padmasree Warrior is CTO of Cisco, David Armano of the popular Logic + Emotion blog, and Guy Kawasaki, a well known author. There are exciting prizes to be won, including an Apple MacBook Pro, an Amazon Kindle DX, and an Apple iPhone 3GS. There are also 5 category prizes comprising copies of Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software.

More info here.

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Tagged as: Online Presentations, PowerPoint, SlideShare

TechSmith Announces Camtasia Studio for Mac

After Jing on the Mac, TechSmith has announced a version of their Camtasia Studio product for the Mac OS X platform!

Betsy Weber, Technical Evangelist at TechSmith mentions on her Visual Lounge blog that “Camtasia for Mac will be available on August 25! Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing more information and details with you about the release. Camtasia for Mac will have a special introductory price of $99, through the end of 2009. After that, the MSRP will be $149”.

I’m sure looking forward to playing with this one!

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Tagged as: Camtasia, Mac, Techsmith

Adobe eLearning Suite: Getting the Trial

We have been using the Adobe eLearning Suite extensively lately — trying out the individual products within the suite, using them within a PowerPoint centric workfklow, and creating tutorials using these concepts on this site.

Many Indezine visitors and subscribers would like to know how they can get the product, and try it out before deciding whether they want to buy it or not — and for a product that costs northwards of $2000 for the full version, that’s a very wise approach indeed.

You first need to visit this page on the Adobe site: Adobe eLearning Suite — this will bring you to a page that looks like what you can see in the screenshot below:

The screenshot above is smaller in size than the actual web page you will get to — but the most interesting options are the three listed on the top left — and we explain them below:

1. Download Free Trial takes you to a page from where you can sign in to your Adobe account (and create a free account if you don’t have one) — and then you fill in a form to get to the download link that weighed about 2.65 GB for the English version! If that’s a very large download for you, look at the next option.
2. Order Free Trial DVD lets you do just what it says — you still need to fill in a form, and this option is available to users in North America and Europe only.
3. System Requirements lists the optimum configuration that you system should possess to run the programs in the Adobe eLearning Suite.

That’s for now — in a subsequent post, we’ll explore more facets of this suite of programs.

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Tagged as: Adobe, eLearning, PowerPoint

Raptivity Presenter: The Indezine Review

There are no two opinions about this: your audience will be more engaged if your PowerPoint presentation has some sort of relevant interactivity that adds extra value to the content. Whatever you may want to show: complex information, business visuals, or pictures — if it is presented in an interactive, non-linear style, it has the potential to make your audience more engrossed in your presentation. The product I am reviewing, Raptivity Presenter lets you create impressive interactions right within PowerPoint. Let’s evaluate how it fares.

Read the review here.

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Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review