PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Microsoft in Apple Patent Blunder

Software giant Microsoft has won apple patent rights – not those of its arch-rival Apple computer – but a special variety of fruit tree. Microsoft’s apparent new horticultural interest came after the US Patent Office mistakenly granted it the rights to the “Burchinal Red Delicious” apple. US Plant Patent 14,757 was supposed to be granted to Robert Burchinal of East Wenatchee, Washington, instead.

More info at the BBC News site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Humor, Microsoft

Create a PowerPoint Media Presentation

Even though PowerPoint is often associated with corporate presentations, it is increasingly being used in non-conventional areas to create greeting cards, photo slide shows, and even family trees. For these situations, rather than being a distraction, music can the perfect accompaniment to your slide show.

Microsoft realized that users want more fun features in PowerPoint and gave PowerPoint 2003 the ability to play entire media playlists in sequence. These lists can be made up of all sorts of sound and movie formats. When you combine the playlist feature with a cool background ‘skin,’ you really can create a nice semi-jukebox presentation in PowerPoint.

Note: This article is no longer available on the Computor Companion site, but we do have an extended version on Indezine here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2002
Tagged as: Media, Playlists, Tutorials

Gadgets Dismantling Families?

Joseph Robertia explores if all the technology is indeed helping all the time?

I remember a day not long ago when a slide projector was more than enough to ensure a successful presentation, whether it be at a conference, business meeting or for a college assignment. Then came PowerPoint presentations promising to knock the socks of your target audience with video, sound and data images. Much to the credit of the manufacturers, it is possible to give a phenomenal presentation with this program.

He adds:

Now, thanks to modern technology, the kids are glued to their Sony Playstations video games. Mom is in another room enthralled with the Lifetime movie of the week, and dad is zealously scanning the Internet in an effort to illegally download music.

Image: Pixabay

Read more on the Kenai Peninsula Online site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Opinion

PowerPoint and Organizational Storytelling: Q&A with Steve Denning

As program director of knowledge management at the World Bank from 1996 to 2000, Steve Denning learned a few things about organizational knowledge sharing. In his acclaimed book, The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations, he describes how storytelling can serve as a powerful tool for organizational change and knowledge management. As a leading authority in the role of storytelling in organizations, Steve says that PowerPoint can sometimes stand in the way of telling a story, and other times it can advance it.

Cliff Atkinson interviews Steve Denning.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Cliff Atkinson, Interviews, Opinion, Steve Denning, Storytelling

Visual Persuasion and the Law

Neal Feigenson teaches Torts, Civil Procedure, and Evidence, and is a research affiliate in the Yale University Department of Psychology. He is an expert in the field of Visual Persuasion and the Law. His course, titled, Visual Persuasion in the Law which he created with Christina Spiesel, an adjunct law professor at Quinnipiac and New York School of Law, and Richard Sherwin, New York School of Law professor, is the first and so far, only college law course of its kind that deals with visual technologies and computer animation, CD-ROMs–and their use in law and in the courtroom.

Read more at the Jewish Ledger site.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Legal, Neal Feigenson, Opinion