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Amy Gahran makes her point on why you should stop putting your PowerPoint presentations online, although she does not touch the subject of ORM (Online Rich Media).
She says, “Here is one of my major online content peeves: why are some people compelled to put their PowerPoint slides on the Web? The vast majority of slide presentations are intended to support a live talk, and they make little or no sense out of that context!”
She further adds convincingly, “When content is so cryptic as to be frustrating, it’s anti-content. It undermines the goals of both the author and the reader.”
Read this post at the MarketingProfs site.
Update in 2018: For the uninitiated, Online Rich Media used to be another TLA (three-letter acronym) that’s almost forgotten now. That suggests Amy was right in her approach, so many years ago!
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Dennis Ricks is the founder and President of CrystalGraphics, Inc., based in Santa Clara, California, which is a leading developer and publisher of add-ins for PowerPoint. Prior to leading the development of the PowerPlugs product line, he lead the development of TOPAS, a pioneering 3D animation software package for the PC. Prior to that, he worked at General Electric, as a manager in the R&D department of its CAD/CAM division. While in college he invented and patented a novel 3D television system.
In this interview, Dennis talks about CrystalGraphics and their PowerPoint add-ins.
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Michael Power is the founder and Managing Director of Neuxpower, a software solutions company based in the UK. Neuxpower custom-builds both stand-alone applications and add-ins that enhance existing software such as Microsoft Office. Their commercially-available PowerPoint optimizer, NXPowerLite, radically reduces the size of PowerPoint.
In this interview, Michael talks about NXPowerLite.
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Bill Odell has over 18 years of technology marketing and sales experience, and is currently the Vice President of Marketing at Latitude Communications, a provider of fully integrated web and voice conferencing applications based in San Jose, CA.
In this interview, Bill discusses Latitude’s iCreate and MeetingPlace and the online rich media marketplace. Read the interview here.
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Rick Altman is the spirit behind PowerPoint Live, an event that’s going to be held this year from October 12 to 15 at Tucson, Arizona.
In this conversation, Rick talks about PowerPoint Live.
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