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Joel Harband heads Tuval Software Industries, based in Israel.
Their best known product is Speech-Over Studio, a PowerPoint add-in that enables PowerPoint slides to incorporate narrations using automated voices.
In this interview, Joel discusses his product, Speech-Over Studio.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, Joel Harband, Personalities, PowerPoint, Speech-Over
David Wilson writes, We now have a new war to fight: the war against PowerPoint, spearheaded by Yale political scientist Edward Tufte, an expert in the visual display of information. According to Tufte, PowerPoint’s bulleted lists encourage “generic, superficial, simplistic thinking.”
He adds, But, at the last conference I attended — a typical example — the PowerPoint lectures stuttered on, sometimes alleviated by a blast of animation — Crazy Frog did a turn. Tellingly, the speaker who made the most impact used no bells and whistles at all. She just talked engagingly, peppering her discourse with one-liners and spinning anecdotes.
Read more on the OhMyNews site.
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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Edward Tufte, PowerPoint
To some they’re an invaluable way of getting your point across, to others they’re the greatest menace ever to hit the business meeting. Now PowerPoint presentations have sparked a bitter row among AMs after some called for them to be banned in Cardiff Bay. Liberal Democrat AM Mick Bates became the first parliamentarian in Britain to use the computer-based slides software last week, when he deployed it in a plenary debate on supermarkets.
Image: Jump Story
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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, PowerPoint
If you want to add a cartoon to your next PowerPoint presentation, you’ll want to check out Mark Anderson’s Andertoons site that lets you browse all the cartoons on the site. Once you like a cartoon, you can opt to buy a license for using it in your next PowerPoint presentation for a special presentation rate.
You May Also Like: Cartoons in PowerPoint Presentations: Conversation with Mark Anderson
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Tagged as: Cartoons, Clip Media, Mark Anderson, PowerPoint
Seven companies have responded to a call by Massachusetts officials for information on software plug-ins that would allow Microsoft Office users to read and write files in the OpenDocument format (ODF). Among those that replied are Sun Microsystems Inc., a strong proponent of ODF, and Microsoft Corp., a strong opponent.
Plug-ins could allow Massachusetts or other governments to embrace ODF without having to move workers off of Microsoft Office, a move that could require costly retraining.
Read more on the Computerworld site.
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Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, ODF, PowerPoint
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