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As soon as I heard my new navigation system announce the routing for my trip, I recognized the male voice. It was the same man who greets me whenever I call United Airlines: warm, friendly, conversational and, most of all assured—unlike the characterless robotic voices that I (and you, too) must endure in so many other automated voice systems. As a result, I listened to his guidance instructions with extra attention.
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We feature Julián Magnone, who discusses SlideModel, an online platform that has been at the forefront of presentation design for over a decade. We then bring you an interesting discussion of 30 million or more PowerPoint presentations being created each day.
We next feature speakers from the upcoming Presentation Summit: Nolan Haims, Chantal Bossé, Rick Altman, and Sheila B. Robinson. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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Ric Bretschneider spent 17 years working on the Microsoft PowerPoint team, building features you both love and fear. Along with his passion for software design, he has spent many years teaching users’ good presentation practices and fighting “Death by PowerPoint” through hard and soft skill building. He created the Microsoft PowerPoint Team blog, writing more entries there than any other individual blogger, and still writes on the subject today.
In this conversation, Ric talks about his participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2024, being held on location in Oxnard, CA this year from October 20 to 23, 2024, and virtually from November 3 to 6, 2024.
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Mike Parkinson is a geek. He is one of thirty-six Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the world, is an internationally recognized communication and presentation expert, best-selling author, and professional trainer. Mike’s keynotes, training, books, and tools such as Build-a-Graphic help companies succeed while saving money and time. He owns Billion Dollar Graphics and is a partner at 24 Hour Company, a premier creative services firm.
In this conversation, Mike talks about his participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2024, being held on location in Oxnard, CA this year from October 20 to 23, 2024, and virtually from November 3 to 6, 2024.
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Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., of Custom Professional Learning, LLC, is a speaker, educator, program evaluator, and consultant with a passion for the science of teaching and learning, presentations, and asking questions. Through her talks, professional development workshops and university courses, Sheila teaches people how to create their own courses, how make learning stick, and how to ask good questions. She also teaches program evaluation, survey design, data visualization, audience engagement, and presentation design.
Sheila is author of Designing Quality Survey Questions 2nd ed. (SAGE Publications, 2024), and writes a popular blog with numerous articles on learning science, survey design, presentations and other topics. Sheila is also a Certified Presentation Specialist (CPS)™, President of the Presentation Guild, and Senior Design and Facilitation Consultant with Evergreen Data.
In this conversation, Sheila talks about her participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2024, being held on location in Oxnard, CA this year from October 20 to 23, 2024, and virtually from November 3 to 6, 2024.
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