PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

GoSkills PowerPoint 365 Training: Conversation with Deborah Ashby

      Deborah Ashby is a TAP accredited, MOS certified IT Trainer specializing in the design, development, and facilitation of Microsoft training courses both online and in the classroom. Since the mid 1990s, she has been involved in the IT industry starting her career on an IT Helpdesk for an airline. This sparked a passion for travel and in 1997, she left the U.K. and moved to Melbourne, Australia where she furthered her career as an Operations Analyst and programmer before moving into IT Training. In her free time Deborah loves to learn about history and travel to unconventional places, most recently to Chernobyl, Jordan, and Myanmar. She loves photography and her photos have appeared in The Evening Standard newspaper. She’s also an avid swimmer, part time runner, full time vegan and animal lover.

In this conversation, Deborah discusses her new GoSkills training course on PowerPoint 365.

Geetesh: Deborah, GoSkills just released your new PowerPoint 365 course, and it looks like you have covered not only techniques, but also design skills and PowerPoint’s influences in society. The result is awesome and wanted to ask you what motivated you to use this approach, and how do you think this approach will help your students?

Deborah: Firstly, thank you so much for the compliment – I’m glad you like the course!

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Tagged as: Deborah Ashby, GoSkills, Interviews, PowerPoint 365, Training

Presentation Summit 2021 Sweepstakes: Conversation with Rick Altman

      Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, listened to by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He covers the whole of the industry, from message crafting, through presentation design, slide creation, software technique, and delivery. He is the host of the Presentation Summit, now in its 19th season as the most prominent learning event for the presentation community.

In this conversation, Rick talks about the sweepstakes announced for the upcoming Presentation Summit 2021, being held both virtually and on location in Clearwater Beach, FL, United States this year from September 26 to 29, 2021.

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Tagged as: Events, Interviews, Presentation Summit, Rick Altman

Leadership Storytelling: Conversation with Ronan Dunne

Interviewed by Gavin McMahon

Image: Unsplash

When people have common context, our shared opportunities are markedly better.

— Ronan Dunne

Great leaders are great storytellers.

    Ronan Dunne is a great storyteller. A proud Irishman, Ronan leads Verizon’s global consumer business based in the US. Always generous in sharing his wisdom, Ronan had a conversation with us about his experience, focusing on the connection between leadership and storytelling.

Excerpts from that conversation follow.

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Tagged as: Gavin McMahon, Interviews, Leadership, Ronan Dunne, Storytelling

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 15, 2021

We first look at the new Word for the Web feature that creates PowerPoint slides from Word documents. We also have a small conversation with Mohit Anand from Microsoft. In our ongoing Presentation Management series, James Ontra and AlexAnndra Ontra look at how you can create a story for business. We’ve updated our content on font substitution issues within PowerPoint and we explore three ways to overcome such problems.

We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.

Filed Under: Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Using the Morph Transition with Curve Shapes in PowerPoint

We already looked at getting started with the Morph transition in PowerPoint. In this next tutorial of the Morph transition series, we will look at using the Curve line tool to create some drawings. These drawings can be duplicated on subsequent slides, and edited slightly in each slide. The results can differ depending upon what you draw. While it will be great if you have artistic skills to draw within PowerPoint, it doesn’t matter if you cannot draw. We will also provide a sample presentation and video walkthrough to help.

Quickly create animations using the Curve line tool and the Morph transition in PowerPoint.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Curve Line, Microsoft Windows, Morph, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Shapes, Transitions, Tutorials