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You’ve spent a lot of time designing a presentation template. The background image is just right, the fonts are defined, line spacing and bullet points are formatted, and the company logo is clean and well-presented. Now, how do you marry the rest of your graphic elements to the template to keep the design consistent across your presentation?
Julie Terberg teaches how consistent color palettes in PowerPoint can help.
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Tagged as: Color, Design, Guest Post, Julie Terberg, PowerPoint
HP recently added the mp2210 to their 2200 series projectors and it’s one of their lightest and least expensive portable DLP projectors to date. Measuring only 7.9 x 6.5 x 2.4 inches and weighing in at a scant 2.4 pounds this projector is small enough to carry in a briefcase without straining your shoulder. And at a suggested retail price of just $1,499 it won’t strain your AV budget either. This projector is designed from the ground up for the road-warrior business presenter and it shows.
Why I dislike the term “Royalty Free Music”? The three most popular phrases used to describe the offerings of music production libraries like UniqueTracks are: Royalty free music, Stock music, and Buy-out music. Of the three, the most accurate, to me, is stock music because it implies a collection of media that is immediately available to be used in production creation. However, the phrase most often used to describe our services is royalty free music.
John Bickerton discusses royalty free music, or stock music.
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Tagged as: Guest Post, John Bickerton, Music
Articulate received two Best of Show Awards, one for content authoring and a second for assessment tools at last week’s TechLearn conference in Las Vegas. The awards, sponsored by Questex Media Group, Inc., were given to products with the best potential to change the future of the learning and training industry. Articulate’s Presenter 5.0 and Quizmaker 2.0 products were judged on characteristics such as ease of integration, implementation, system quality, customer service, and return on investment.
Read more on the Articulate site.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Articulate, Awards
Have you ever wanted to add a frame to a picture you inserted on a PowerPoint slide? It’s actually not obvious, but you can create nice frames using PowerPoint’s built-in tools. If you need more than PowerPoint’s tools can provide, you also can always get some content outside PowerPoint.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Design, Pictures
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