PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Microsoft Visio – The Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec Interview

Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec is a Lead Program Manager with Visio at Microsoft. Mai-lan has been with Microsoft for five years, working on Microsoft Commerce Server, Microsoft Transaction Server, and Visio. She is the author of two technology books for business managers and multiple articles in MSDN Magazine. Mai-lan is currently working on the next version of Visio.

In this interview, Mai-lan discusses Visio, graphics and PowerPoint.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec, Microsoft, Visio

Video Stuff for PowerPoint and Presentations

While you can add video clips in almost all versions of PowerPoint, you will often need help and links to resources that can help.

Here are lots of links and resources for video stuff, especially geared for PowerPoint users.

Filed Under: Audio and Video

PowerPoint Backgrounds with Hemera’s The Big Box of Art

I often recommend Hemera’s The Big Box of Art to anyone who needs a graphic collection to get started. It provides an amazing array of graphic elements at a very reasonable price. And it does have the best search interface that I have seen in clip media collections.

The other day, I needed to create a nice PowerPoint template for my Netiquette presentation. To start with I needed a background that contained email-related graphic elements. Here’s how I created my background.

Here’s how I created my background.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Hemera, PowerPoint, Templates

Book Extract: You Can Bank On Your Voice

This book extract from You Can Bank on Your Voice is an Indezine exclusive with permission from Rodney Saulsberry and Tomdor Publishing.

This is a how-to-book about being successful in the voice-over industry. Rodney breaks it down step by step and tells you what you need to get started in the business. Topics include: how to audition, finding an agent, and making a demo CD. The early chapters are great for the beginner. The rest of the book deals with making lots of money, voice-over techniques, marketing strategies, the home studio, managing your money, vocal exercises, and practice scripts.

Read the excerpts here.

Filed Under: Books
Tagged as: Books, Excerpts, Rodney Saulsberry, Voice-overs

The Jeffrey Fisher Interview

Jeffrey P. Fisher provides audio, video, music, writing, training, and media production services. He also writes about music, sound, and video for print and the Web. In this interview, Jeffrey discusses sound, recording, voice-overs and their relation to PowerPoint. Don’t miss Jeffrey’s hardware recommendations for recording voice-overs for PowerPoint presentations.

In this interview, Jeffrey talks about sound, and the role of sound in a PowerPoint presentation.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Jeffrey Fisher, Sound