PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PointClips: Conversation with Jeff Koke

Friday, May 18, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 2:04 pm

Jeff Koke is a graphic designer and creative marketing expert who has been designing professionally since 1992. He is the co-founder of two businesses: Koke Creative, a creative marketing firm that helps innovative companies build strong brands and executes on those brands through Web, print and presentation design; and PointClips, a site that sells high-quality professional graphics for PowerPoint. Jeff lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two children. He enjoys Tae Kwon Do, soccer, writing and music.

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Tagged as: Clip Media, Graphics, PowerPoint

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Book Excerpts: Working with SmartArt

Friday, May 18, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 7:19 am

This book extract from Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is presented here with permission from Pearson Education.

The book, which I co-authored with Patrice-Anne Rutledge and Tom Mucciolo is probably the most detailed volume on PowerPoint you’ll find anywhere. In addition, it also looks beyond PowerPoint to design sense, presentation, and speaking skills. The book has been completely updated for PowerPoint 2007 and includes a free CD that contains software that you can use.

Read an exclusive book excerpt from Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

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Helius to acquire PointeCast

Thursday, May 17, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:38 am

Helius Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PointeCast Corp., a leading global provider of rapid communication and online training solutions. PointeCast’s Publisher product allows users to enhance Microsoft PowerPoint presentations with real time quizzes, surveys, response tracking and other multimedia features and then instantly convert them into the Adobe Flash format for easy integration. PointeCast’s robust learning management system (LMS) enables customers to administer and track e-learning and training courses.

Word Converter for Office:mac 2004

Thursday, May 17, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:33 am

Microsoft’s Mac BU continues to work in the development on Office 2008 for Mac, but in the meantime, they have just announced the release of its standalone, drag and drop Word converter for Office 2004 for Mac and v. X users……. PowerPoint and Excel drag and drop updates to the converter will be released this winter.

Google’s PowerPoint Player in Gmail?

Thursday, May 17, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 4:55 am

Some Gmail users have reported that they see a View as Slideshow option in mails that contain PowerPoint attachments.

Doug Caverly on Webpronews.com says that whether it’s being polite, trying not to scare its competitor, or somehow believes this is true, Google has repeatedly claimed that it isn’t challenging the Microsoft Office Suite. But now a feature within Gmail looks a lot like a presentation tool, and onlookers are having an even harder time accepting the search engine giant’s word.

Rafe Needleman adds on Webware — This is probably the presentation player that will be part of Google’s upcoming competitor to PowerPoint. It’s not, though, what we’re all waiting for, which is the slide show authoring tool that will presumably have cool collaborative features similar to Google’s word processor and spreadsheet.

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Tagged as: Companion, Google, Google Slides, PowerPoint

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