PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Omnivox – The Paul Ludden Interview

Paul Ludden is the founder and sales director of Omnivox Systems, a company dedicated to the sales and marketing of specialist audio equipment utilising the FeONIC ‘smart’ material technology. From its base in the UK, Omnivox Systems is developing global distribution for its brand of desktop audio presentation products.

In this interview, Paul discusses FeONIC technology, Omnivox products and support infrastructure and the importance of sound in a presentation.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Audio, Hardware, Interviews, Omnivox, Paul Ludden, Sound, Speakers

PowerPoint Rules University’s Self-Paced Training

How effective is PowerPoint for creating self-paced training rather than instructor-led presentations? To find out, Dr Simon James, a lecturer at the university’s faculty of science, engineering and technology, and colleague Anna McEldowney encouraged 31 staff at eight schools to create 35 CD-based multimedia resources across 32 units. These were distributed to 1200 students.

Read more at the Sydney Morning Herald site.

You can also read an article by Dr. Simon James on Indezine.

Filed Under: Case Studies
Tagged as: Australia, Simon James, University

An Interview with Jim Burns

Jim Burns is the CEO of Avitage! Communication Systems, a Wellesley, MA based entity that creates the Avitage! product. Avitage! is a marketing and sales communication system. By combining message management with real-time sales coaching, and all forms of electronic communications delivery, Avitage! turns the daily tactical communications of sales and marketing professionals into coordinated parts of a strategic communication initiative.

In this interview, Jim discusses how Avitage! evolved, ROI, PowerPoint, and so much more.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Avitage, Interviews, Jim Burns, PowerPoint

Group Audience Response Systems for PowerPoint

Satellite, a leading presentation company in the Middle East, based at Dubai Media City, has announced that it will offer Group Audience Response Systems (GARS) technology to education and training providers in the region. GARS utilizes small individual wireless keypads, similar to those used by the audience in the television show ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire?’. The questions themselves are created with software that directly adds into Microsoft PowerPoint, thus making the system very easy to use by anyone already familiar with creating PowerPoint slides.

More info here.

Filed Under: Hardware
Tagged as: Hardware, PowerPoint

Microsoft Office in Hindi

Microsoft India has launched the Hindi version of its popular Office software which includes Microsoft Word, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Learn more at the Rediff site.

Filed Under: Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Hindi, Microsoft Office