PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Studio F – The Joye Argo Interview

Tuesday, March 15, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 10:16 am

Joye Argo spent a number of years in corporate marketing and advertising for the education and healthcare sectors. She was a national account executive for a Fortune 500 firm before starting her own company providing research consulting to large direct marketing firms. Joye is a principal and Vice President of Business Development at Studio F Productions.

In this interview, Joye discusses the importance of using professionally designed PowerPoint templates.

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Just David Byrne and PowerPoint

Wednesday, March 9, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:00 am

You wouldn’t expect this kind of packed house for a normal PowerPoint presentation. Chalk it up to the presenter. Sporting a black suit, two-toned shoes, and a matching belt buckle — he began his lecture, My name is David Byrne. This is going to be an introduction to PowerPoint.

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Updated to 11.1.1

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:45 am

Microsoft Corp.’s Mac Business Unit (Mac BU) on Monday announced the release of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Update 11.1.1. The update includes improvements to Excel add-in calculation, improves stability for PowerPoint and Word, adds support for new device drivers, and improves the appearance of imported graphics.

The Pete McChrystal Interview

Wednesday, February 23, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 10:02 am

Pete McChrystal is the founder and CEO of Accent Technologies. During the early years, Accent’s focus was on high-end presentation development and management services for corporate clients. Today, Librarian is used by many Global 2000 companies to manage and distribute documents and presentation materials to global offices and mobile sale forces.

In this interview, Pete discusses PowerPoint, DAM and ADM.

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Microsoft’s Office Bucks for a Promotion

Monday, February 14, 2005, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

Most corporate workers already spend their days using Microsoft Office. The company’s goal now is to get more servers to follow suit. With an already commanding share of the desktop market, Microsoft these days is trying to transform Office into a tool that is deeply tied to a company’s core business processes. In Microsoft’s ideal world, Office serves as the friendly, familiar interface for the massive databases that hold a company’s customer and other information.

The first step in the effort was building XML tools into Office 2003 that let companies easily move data in and out of Excel, Word and PowerPoint. But for the effort really to take root, Microsoft needs developers to buy into the idea and create applications that build on Office.