PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerFlashPoint 3.4 – The Indezine Review

With the plethora of options available for PowerPoint to Flash conversion, it’s no longer an easy decision to decide upon one particular product. In the midst of this scenario, we were invited to review another product of this genre, this one is called PowerFlashPoint. Let’s see how it fares.

Read the Indezine review of PowerFlashPoint.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint Flash, Review

Parts of a Shoe: Sample Presentation

Parts of a Shoe is a sample presentation created right here at Indezine. Think of it as a “playground” presentation — built not to impress with fancy animations, but to show how internal hyperlinks can turn a regular slide deck into an interactive adventure.

The idea was simple: create a presentation where slides link to other slides, just like clicking rooms inside a house instead of walking down a long hallway. Click the sole? Jump to the sole slide. Curious about the laces? Off you go!

And yes, we picked shoes on purpose. Believe it or not, we searched high and low and couldn’t find a clear, visual breakdown of all the parts of a shoe anywhere online. So we did what presentation geeks do best — we made one ourselves.

Download and use this presentation.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: authorSTREAM, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash, Presentation Samples

RoyaltyFreeMusic Site

A good source of high-quality music is something anyone who works with multimedia can use. Such music can be used for sound scores in PowerPoint presentations, as animation sounds, or for use in Flash and video-editing. RoyaltyFreeMusic is a site that provides plenty of high-quality music that can be bought using either a subscription model, CDs or individual tracks.

Explore RoyaltyFreeMusic, a source of music clips that you can use within your presentations and elsewhere.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Clip Media, PowerPoint, Review, Sounds

World’s Best Presentation Contest: Conversation with Jeff Brenman

  Jeff Brenman is the founder and director of Apollo Ideas, an award-winning presentation design and consulting firm based out of North Carolina. Jeff regularly works as a communication consultant to top executives in corporations around the globe, empowering their business communications with better visual storytelling. His presentation won the last The World’s Best Presentation Contest held by SlideShare. He won it again this time.

Geetesh: How does it feel to win the World’s Best Presentation Contest consecutively for the second time?

Jeff: Surprising. There were a lot of great presentations entered in the contest this year, so it’s an honor to have been chosen as the winner by such accomplished judges. Honestly, I was more concerned with entering the dialog than entering the competition this year. The SlideShare contest is a fantastic way to bring good design to important issues and spread critical messages to people around the world.

Geetesh: Tell us more about the type of research you did on the topic. Also, what made you choose Water as the topic of your presentation?

Jeff: Everybody drinks, but hardly anyone is talking about water. The freshwater crisis is a fascinating topic because it’s one of those things not a lot of people know about, but is going to affect all of us very soon. In my opinion, that also makes it a perfect topic for a web-based educational presentation.

The water crisis is a big issue, so to do it justice required spending a lot of time researching the storyboard. The full list of books, articles, and news stories that went into THIRST can be found at our site.

Putting together a presentation is kind of like making a pizza. There are dozens of delicious toppings you could add to a pizza, but you have to be selective and choose just a few. A pizza with every topping imaginable wouldn’t taste very good. In the same way, a presentation with every piece of research you discover isn’t going to be very interesting — it’ll be overwhelming. You have to be selective with the information you include.

THIRST is far from comprehensive, but intentionally so. It doesn’t offer a list of suggestions for how to conserve water. It doesn’t get into the politics of who controls the water resources around the world. It doesn’t even go into detail about the problems surrounding the bottled water industry. Instead, THIRST is a conversation starter, designed to inspire people to explore the topic deeper on their own. As a story, THIRST was created to act as a beginning, not a beginning, middle, and end. Based on the feedback it has received so far, I’m proud to see it’s working.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Jeff Brenman, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, SlideShare

Outline Pane Options in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

The new interface in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 has changed quite a bit. However, the Slides/Outline pane looks and works in the same way as it did in the earlier versions, at least on the surface. There are small changes though. For starters, there is no equivalent of the Outlining toolbar in PowerPoint 2007—this means most of the outline tasks now have to be accessed through right-click options, and we’ll show you how you can do that.

Explore Outline pane options in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials