Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Em C. Pea explores why some people don’t like PowerPoint.
Back when Auntie Em was just a wee sprout in Public School 102, there was a boy named Melvin in the next class. Melvin was the sort of boy that everyone just loved to notice: nerdy, stammering, dressed in oddly colored clothing and with awkward posture. Being children, of course, we picked on him without a second thought. I’ve often wondered what happened to Melvin. These days, I suspect that one of the Microsoft development teams knows just how he felt, because PowerPoint is rapidly becoming the Melvin of Microsoft.
Read more on the Redmond Mag site.
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PresentationPro announced the immediate availability of PowerCONVERTER 4.4, a new version of their PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool that includes a new customizable Flash presentation player with a slide navigation panel.
More info at the PresentationPro site.
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Presentations magazine Editor-in-chief Tad Simons is an award-winning editor, journalist and media analyst with more than 20 years on the communications industry. During his tenure as editor of Presentations magazine — a business-trade magazine dedicated to people who create and deliver professional presentations –the publication has won numerous regional and national awards for feature writing, design and commentary.
In this interview, Tad talks about Presentations magazine, and the presentations industry.
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Tom Bunzel specializes in knowing what other presenters need. He has appeared on Tech TV’s Call for Help as “Professor PowerPoint” and spoken at the PowerPoint Live conference in Tucson, Arizona. Tom is also a “technology coach” for the Neuroscience Education Institute giving one-on-one instruction to physicians.
In this interview, Tom discusses PowerPoint, multimedia, video and more.
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