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Signage24: Conversation with Kurt Dupont

Monday, February 5, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:46 am

Signage24 is a new service site from PresentationPoint, creators of several PowerPoint add-ins. In this Indezine exclusive, Kurt Dupont who heads PresentationPoint discusses this new hosting service, and compares it to some not-so-similar offerings.

Geetesh: Tell us more about Signage24, and how did this evolve.

Kurt: Signage24 is a new online service from PresentationPoint. With Signage24, you can distribute your presentations (information, advertising, events etc) worldwide in order to run as an automated billboard. In the Audio Visual world this functionality is known as ‘digital signage.’

Just like Hotmail for email messages and hosting companies for websites, Signage24 is a hosted solution to upload your presentations to your company account, and schedule them to play on a given player or group of players. You can now design your advertising pages in Microsoft PowerPoint and distribute them automatically to your shops or POS systems.

The big advantage of digital signage and dynamic signage is that you can promote your products and offers much better. It makes for example no sense to promote a Scotch whisky in the morning. That is something you plan in the evening. In the morning you promote products like cereals and a healthy breakfast or lunch. So with digital signage, you can better target your audience — that will result in much more sales than before.

Currently our service works with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations only, but soon new players can be expected like Flash, MPG movies, images etc.

Geetesh: How is Signage24 different from other sharing platforms like SlideShare, YouTube, etc.

Kurt: It’s difficult to compare Signage24 with services like YouTube. Those services are interactive. Although it is a library of multimedia files, you always decide when and what to watch.

The service of Signage24 is also a system where you upload your files but in addition you set up your playlists and you specify when a playlist of presentations is shown at where and when. For the viewers of your playlist, there is no way to change that. If they look at a Signage24 monitor, they will see your advertising!

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Tagged as: Digital Signage, Interviews, Kurt Dupont, PowerPoint, PresentationPoint

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Google Docs To Support PowerPoint

Monday, February 5, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:42 am

As if Microsoft didn’t have enough to worry about after the lukewarm response to Vista and Office 2007, Google’s free online office suite is set to do PowerPoint as well.

Code-named Google Presently, the presentation feature is set to become a part of Google Docs & Spreadsheets which, as the name suggests, currently offers document and spreadsheet editing. Users will be able to convert a document into a presentation, create slides, and view the presentation in full-screen, reports unofficial Google-watching blog Google Operating System.

WildPresenter Pro 3 Review

Friday, February 2, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:12 am

We have reviewed WildPresenter in the past—and rather than do the whole review again, we will explore the new features in this latest version of WildPresenter.

For those of you who don’t know what WildPresenter does, it is a product that allows you to import PowerPoint presentations. Thereafter, you can continue editing your presentation in an editing environment that’s so much like PowerPoint right down to the Slide Masters. Finally, WildPresenter allows you to output your project to a Flash SWF movie.

Read the Indezine review of WildPresenter Pro 3.

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PresentationPoint Announces Signage24

Tuesday, January 30, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:33 am

PresentationPoint has launched a new presentation distribution service to schedule and distribute your presentations worldwide. Free accounts are available although paid accounts come with more bells and whistles.

Think of Signage24 as something similar to a web hosting company. Only in this case, they offer hosting and online delivery for your presentations. You’ll also have to install a small player program and configure it before you upload presentations and other linked files. Then you define a playlist of files and schedule when the playlist should be displayed on the Signage24 players.

Visit Signage24 for more information.

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TurningPoint Makes PowerPoint Interactive

Tuesday, January 30, 2007, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:26 am

Turning Technologies has announced a new Mac-compatible version of its interactive Microsoft PowerPoint software: TurningPoint for Mac offers users an audience response system that creates a fully interactive experience – in the classroom, the lecture hall, the meeting room or even the conference auditorium.