PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

SlideShare: Sharing Slides and Presentations

Wednesday, October 11, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 6:58 am

In this series of posts on SlideShare, we have shown how you can get an invite and join SlideShare, and also how you can upload your PowerPoint presentations to the SlideShare server. In this post, we’ll explore how you can share your SlideShare slides and presentations.

Follow these steps to share your uploaded slides and presentations:

Log into SlideShare and click the My Slidespace tab to get into your Slide space area.
Click the title of any one of your uploaded presentations to bring it up in slideshow mode, as shown in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: An open presentation
Click the Share button which is at the bottom left of the slideshow player, as shown in Figure 1, above. Doing so opens the share window, as shown in Figure 2, below.
Figure 2: The Share window
Provide one or more e-mail addresses, add an optional message, and click the Send button.

Note: Shared presentations can be viewed by SlideShare members.

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Articulate Presenter 5

Tuesday, October 10, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 11:27 am

Articulate Presenter enables you to convert a PowerPoint presentation to a Flash SWF based online rich media content — Presenter also includes several bells and whistles such as the ability to insert quizzes, Flash animations, narrations, and web objects. The output is entirely customizable, includes interactivity, and reduces the file size so that the content can also be sent by e-mail.

Read the Indezine review of Articulate Presenter 5.

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SlideShare: Uploading Presentations

Tuesday, October 10, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:45 am

In the last SlideShare post, we showed how you can join SlideShare and get an invite. In this post, we’ll show how you can upload a presentation to the SlideShare site. In the next SlideShare post, we will show how you can share the uploaded presentation slides with others.

Follow these steps to upload your presentation slides:

Once you have logged in to SlideShare, click the Start sharing your slides now button, as shown in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: Start uploading your slides
Doing so brings up the upload page, as shown in Figure 2, below. Click the Choose button and locate a presentation file located in your system. As of now, SlideShare accepts PowerPoint (PPT and PPS), and OpenOffice (ODP) files only. Apple Keynote users can save their presentations to PowerPoint files and then upload.
Figure 2: Provide upload details
Enter a title, description, and tags for the presentation you are uploading. Then, click on the Upload button.
The uploading can take a while, depending upon the size of your presentation, and the speed of your Internet connection. Behind the scenes, SlideShare also converts your entire presentation to a Flash SWF file that’s more compact than your original presentation slides.
Once this is done, the uploaded presentation can be viewed as an online Flash-based slideshow. Click the Title link, as shown in Figure 3, below, to see the slideshow of the uploaded presentation.
Figure 3: The uploaded presentation

In the next post on SlideShare, we will show you how to share your uploaded slides.

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SlideShare: Joining SlideShare

Monday, October 9, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 10:41 am

There are so many sites that let you upload and share photos and videos. It was only a matter of time before you had one that lets you upload and share slides and presentations. And that’s exactly what SlideShare is: simple, easy to use, and effective.

In a series of posts, we’ll explore SlideShare, which we must add is in the beta stage now. To join SlideShare, you need an invite, and that’s something you can request on the SlideShare site itself, as shown in Figure 1, below. Or get hold of an existing SlideShare member who can send you an invite.

Figure 1: Get an invite to join SlideShare

Once you have an invite, click the link in the invite email to get to the sign-up form, as shown in Figure 2, below.

Figure 2: Signup for SlideShare

Fill in all the form fields as required. Choose a username and password, and click the Sign Up button. The next time, when you will log into the SlideShare site, log in using your username and password. In our next SlideShare post, we’ll teach you, how you can upload your presentation slides.

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Place Text Over Video in PowerPoint!

Monday, October 9, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 6:28 am

PowerPoint MVP Austin Myers loves to work with all sorts of multimedia issues in PowerPoint and now with a simple piece of code that he is giving away for free, you can place text over video in a PowerPoint slide! I have lost count of how many times I have told users that this is not possible — and now I’m changing my response on this one to tell users that it can be done!

As Austin mentions, …I happened across something that made the little light go on, I gave it a try and believe it or not the result was I discovered how to display text over video. The key to doing this is to use “controls” to hold the text.

Take a look here to see Austin’s tutorial.

Austin also makes the amazing PFCMedia, PFCExpress, and PFCPro products. Do download trial versions of these products at his site while reading his text over video tutorial!

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