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The PowerPoint road show presentation lives on, despite maltreatment of the art form by occasionally clueless presenters. By comparison, an all-video presentation is too costly to create for all but a handful of high-value events. At the other extreme, winging it in public without any visuals could cost you a chance to underscore your important points.
Bill Howard explains more on the PC Magazine site.
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Tagged as: Delivery, Opinion, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills
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Business travelers have a new wireless gadget for meetings: the RemotePoint Global Presenter from Interlink Electronics. Recently upgraded to the 2.4-gigahertz international standard, this palm-size controller can be used to run a PowerPoint presentation from a PC up to 100 feet, or 30 meters, away.
More on the International Herald Tribune site.
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Everyone wants their PowerPoint presentations to look different. And so do you – but where do you start? With a template? That’s part of the answer – but you also need color-coordinated buttons, icons and bullets – and nice visuals that match the look and feel of your presentation.
That’s where Style Workshop comes into the picture.
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Inserting video clips into PowerPoint is usually easy. Also, PowerPoint allows ample control over how you want the video to play while in slide show mode. However, video in itself comes from disparate sources: from camcorders to stock footage libraries and in-house rendered content to downloads from the Internet. An amazing number of video formats actually are bestowed with an even more amazing number of codecs. And if you don’t know what this format and codec thing means, you have come to the right place!
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PowerPoint All Versions
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Ever since Macromedia decided to open up the Flash SWF format, there has been a deluge of fine programs that output everything from animations and video to the Flash SWF format. Our subject of discussion today is Flix from Wildform, a program that converts video formats to Flash SWF.
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