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Mary Waldera explains how important preparation is to pull off a successful meeting. If you find yourself involved in an all-day long meeting or a conference that lasts several days with multiple speakers in a large venue setting, or even if you have a few speakers at client meeting, there are several things you can do to prepare for and equipment you can use to pull off a professional, informative, and well-executed presentation.
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Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Education, PowerPoint, Techniques
Paul Lara is a 20-year veteran broadcaster, covering all aspects of television from reporter, producer and news director to coordinating video PR for a major teaching hospital. As NewTek’s video evangelist, Paul is now responsible for NewTek training and demonstrations of NewTek video products: TriCaster, TriCaster PRO, VT[4] and soon-to-be-released SpeedEDIT video editor.
In this conversation, Paul tells us more about the changes taking place in presentations because of affordable appliances like NewTek TriCaster.
Geetesh: Paul, tell us more about TriCaster and TriCaster PRO.
Paul: At $4,995, NewTek TriCaster brings the power of professional broadcasting and web streaming to more people than was ever before possible. TriCaster brings all the key elements of a TV live truck (live switching of 3 cameras, titles, clip playback, and more) into an appliance that is the size of a shoe box and weighs just 10 pounds.
TriCaster also comes with iVGA, a revolutionary software client that allows any computer running PowerPoint to be included as a live TriCaster input, along with cameras and videos. While TriCaster is showing your presentation with live cameras and video clips, it can be sent out as a live Windows Media stream to your audience. TriCaster gives you the ability to record your presentation as a broadcast-quality digital video clip for later broadcast or streaming. Find out why TriCaster has garnered more than 13 industry awards.
TriCaster PRO, at $6,995 adds critical features requested by professional broadcasters, such as component video, balanced audio, push streaming, and simultaneous video recording while streaming to the Internet. You can see a comparative feature list.
Geetesh: How can everyday presenters get cost benefits by using TriCaster?
Paul: TriCaster becomes an insurance policy on your intellectual property. It is not, after all, the PowerPoint presentation that is the key ingredient, it is your elaboration and passion that makes the presentation important. PowerPoint is simply an outline for later audience support. TriCaster lets you capture important presentations to stream live to the world or to share later with a targeted audience either as a web stream or video.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Hardware, Interviews, PowerPoint, Projector
An unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s PowerPoint slideshow software has left both Windows and Mac PowerPoint users vulnerable to a “zero day” attack. In a security advisory posted online, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of “limited ‘zero day’ attacks” that exploited a vulnerability in its PowerPoint 2000, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2004 for Mac and PowerPoint v.X for Mac.
Read more on the Australian IT site.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Malware, PowerPoint
America needs a PowerPoint intervention. It feels like half of my work life is spent reading PowerPoints, sitting through PowerPoints, or writing PowerPoints. My point? I think we’re just about PowerPointed to death, and I’m not the only one who feels this way. According to Thomas Ricks, Washington Post Pentagon correspondent and author of the book Fiasco, the U.S. military has also jumped onto the PowerPoint bandwagon.
Read more on the Watercooler Confidential blog.
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Case Studies
Tagged as: Case Studies, Death by PowerPoint, PowerPoint
authorPOINT, the PowerPoint to Flash converter product from authorGEN has been updated to v.3.7. New features include:
Learn more on the authorGEN site.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Flash, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash
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