PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Articulate Online: Conversation with Gabe Anderson

  Gabe Anderson takes care of support and community initiatives at Articulate, a provider of rich media products used for e-learning.

In this conversation, Gabe discusses Articulate Online, and how this service integrates with Articulate’s other products.

Geetesh: Tell us more about Articulate Online, and how it is helping people deliver content?

Gabe: Articulate Online allows you to effectively track e-learning activity without the usual cost and hassle. You can publish directly to your Articulate Online account with a single click from either Articulate Presenter or Articulate Quizmaker. All content is hosted on and delivered from the Articulate Online server, so you can easily get your content to your target users with just a link or via a personalized user portal.

Then you can run a number of detailed reports to see how your users are interacting with your content — who’s viewing your presentations and how your users are scoring on your quizzes and answering your survey questions.

And with plans starting at just $199/month, Articulate Online is easier to use and more affordable than complex and expensive corporate learning management systems that are difficult to use and have more features than you need.

You can learn more about Articulate Online here.

Geetesh: How does Articulate Online integrate with other Articulate offerings such as Presenter and Quizmaker?

Gabe: Articulate Online is the only fully integrated hosting, tracking, and reporting platform available that allows direct, one-click publishing from either Articulate Presenter or Quizmaker. You can even embed Articulate Engage interactions, 3rd-party Flash movies, Web Objects, and more directly in your Presenter content before you publish to Articulate Online.

There’s no more worrying about FTP applications, LMS integration, or file management. Just click and publish to Articulate Online, and your content is ready to be shared publicly or with your private users.

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: Articulate, eLearning, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

SlideShare: Contest Winners

The results of World’s Best Presentation Contest on SlideShare are now up on the site. Two of the three top presentations won in both the judges and people’s choice award sections.

See the results here.

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Companion, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, SlideShare

Book Excerpts: Relational Presentation

This book extract is from Relational Presentation: A Visually Interactive Approach by Robert Lane, a book describes all aspects of a presentation style known as Relational Presentation.

Relational Presentation methods completely change the way speakers use presentation software such as PowerPoint. With this approach, a presenter does not simply advance from slide-to-slide, or bullet point-to-bullet point, as is the case with standard performances. Instead, he or she has dynamic access to potentially thousands of slides, any of which can be displayed at any time, in any order, within seconds.

Read an exclusive book excerpt from Relational Presentation: A Visually Interactive Approach.

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Tagged as: Books, PowerPoint

PPTmovie: The Indezine Review

It’s very often that users ask for an option to save their PowerPoint presentations to a movie format. And with media distribution options multiplying each day, this is one area that’s a sore point with PowerPoint users since PowerPoint for Windows does not provide this ability unlike its versions on the Mac. PPTmovie, a new product that we are reviewing today, allows you to convert any PowerPoint presentation to one of the several video formats it supports. These output formats allow you to burn your presentation to a CD or DVD and play it back on a DVD player. You can also make your presentation-movie available on YouTube or another video-sharing site or transfer it to a portable device such as iPod, PSP, or mobile phone.

Read the Indezine review of PPTmovie.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Movies, PowerPoint, Review

PPTminimizer 3: The Indezine Review

In today’s media-driven age, we are surrounded by audio-visual content like pictures, video clips, sounds, etc. And yes, we all like to insert them into our PowerPoint presentations, resulting in huge file sizes. Products like PPTminimizer 3 provide a solution to this problem.

Read the Indezine review of PPTminimizer 3.

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Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review