PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Focus on Signage24

Signage24 is a hosting service through which you can distribute your presentations as digital signage worldwide — almost like an automated billboard. This is a huge thing — and this sort of service can change the way digital signage is pushed to multiple output streams.

Read the Indezine review of Signage24.

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Companion, PowerPoint, PresentationPoint

Wildform Online: Conversation with Colby Devitt

  Colby Devitt is the president and co-founder of Wildform, a multimedia software company based out of Los Angeles, USA. In this conversation, Colby discusses Wildform Online, their new online service that lets you host surveys and quizzes.

Geetesh: Tell us more about Wildform Online, and how it can help users do simple tasks.

Colby: With Wildform Online people can upload their e-learning quizzes, tests, surveys and presentations to the web and track viewership and score results without the expense and labor typically associated with using an LMS (Learning Management System). For as low as $19.99 a month, we host and track how their employees, students, customers and prospects interact with their projects.

For example, if a teacher creates a quiz, she can post it online, invite her students to take the quiz, track the test scores of her students, and if she wants, send them their results. She can choose to publish her quiz for a general audience or restrict it to just her students. Wildform Online also creates detailed reports for her – she can see how many people viewed her quiz, who took it and how they did. Wildform Online is also a great way to conduct surveys and polls – just upload your survey, invite people to take it and view the results. It’s also an effective way to host and track the results of interactive presentations and online courses.

Geetesh: How does Wildform Online integrate with other Wildform products?

Colby: Wildform Online works fantastically with our product WildPresenter Pro, which lets you create multimedia presentations, quizzes, tests, surveys, and product demos, as well as converting PowerPoint to Flash, and recording onscreen activity. It is because of WildPresenter’s quiz and survey creation capabilities that we built Wildform Online. Many of our customers created quizzes and surveys and then wanted to know how to upload them to the web and track the results from people taking them. What they were asking for typically requires an expensive and complex LMS (Learning Management System) that frequently costs in the tens of thousands of dollars. We offer this service to our customers for only $19.99 a month.

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: Colby Devitt, Interviews, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash, Wildform, WildPresenter

The Katherine Murray Interview

Katherine Murray is the author of more than 50 books on technology and writes articles for various Microsoft sites. She also writes and edits the Microsoft Mindshare newsletter and contributes articles to CNET’s TechRepublic. In addition to books and articles, Katherine publishes BlogOffice, a blog sharing tips and ideas related to various versions of Microsoft Office.

In this interview, Katherine talks about her life as a book author, and about her new Office 2007 book.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Katherine Murray, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint

Wildform Announces Wildform Online

Colby Devitt of Wildform says that their new Wildform Online Service has gone live, and it is an easy, cost-effective alternative to expensive LMS Systems.

Wildform Online customers can:

• Publish quizzes, test, surveys and & presentations and securely deliver that content to any audience.
• Track who is viewing their e-learning courses, and how they respond to their quizzes and surveys with detailed, easy-to-understand reports.
• Have quiz and survey results sent to anyone on the web.

Wildform Online offers several pricing plans starting at only $19.99 month. Also, a 30 day free trial is available at the Wildorm Online site.

Filed Under: Miscellaneous
Tagged as: Colby Devitt, PowerPoint, WildPresenter

The James Gordon Interview

James Gordon has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 2000 and can be found in the Microsoft Macintosh newsgroups for Excel, PowerPoint and Word. PowerPoint users will recognize Jim as the creator of InsertPicture add-in for Macintosh. At SUNY University at Buffalo, Jim works helping faculty, staff and instructors with a wide array of technologies for higher education.

In this interview, James talks about PowerPoint for Mac, and his add-in programs.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, James Gordon, Office for Mac, PowerPoint