PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Getting Started with Sections

No matter if your presentation has many slides or just a few, you will always want them to be easily manageable. This leads to the need to organize them logically in Sections. Sections in PowerPoint is a feature that lets you organize slides into segments or divisions for easier management. The Section option within PowerPoint 2011 enables you to divide your presentation slides into logical segments.

Learn how the Sections option in PowerPoint 2011 can help to organize your presentation into logical parts.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Slide Management, Tutorials

Presentation Hero Academy: Conversation with Matteo Cassese

Matteo Cassese is an interactive consultant and an entrepreneur passionate about innovation and technology living in Berlin, Germany. Before starting his consulting business, La Fabbrica della Realtà, in 2011, he has held technical and marketing roles in the internet, telecommunications and entertainment fields. His experience with presentations spans more than 10 years, where he has applied his skills to bigger corporations and startups alike. In January 2015 he has launched the Presentation Hero Academy.

In this conversation, Matteo discusses the Presentation Hero Academy.

Geetesh: Tell us more about your Presentation Hero Academy, and what motivated you to create this learning platform?

Matteo: A few months ago I started looking for an affordable, comprehensive, interactive, non-salesy presentation course to send to potential speakers of a meetup that I organize. Couldn’t find one. So I created my own.

The course I created is the best possible online training course for presentations and public speaking. It collects the best storytelling advice (I used to be a story analyst for a big Hollywood studio), the best presentation structure advice (based on 10+ years of presentation experience), the best design advice (gleaned from top-notch presentations, keynotes and talks), and the best possible delivery and public speaking advice (written mostly with the introverts in mind).

Geetesh: How are the learning materials on Presentation Hero Academy different than other similar resources — what sets it apart?

Matteo: Presentations don’t come easy to me – to paraphrase the song. And this is the main reason why in recent years I’ve developed Presentation Hero to support me when I create them. It’s a blueprint I can apply every time I need to do a presentation. It’s a repeatable and scalable process based on previous experiences that I can trust for every type of presentation.

The course is extremely practical and actionable: every single lesson can be applied in real life. It’s contemporary and interactive: all of the content is delivered through fast paced, fun, animated videos. It’s also speedy and concise, with lessons that average just 2 minutes in length. Most importantly it’s universal: the principles can be applied by anyone to any kind of presentation.

I am still on a journey. Each time I give a presentation I try to tell a better story, create better visuals and deliver with more empathy and confidence. I know that I can improve in all of these areas and I look forward to my next presentations as the means for doing so. That’s the attitude that will save the world from bad presentations.

Your readers can try the first lesson of the course for free.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, PowerPoint, Training

Adobe Presenter: Manage Quiz

Once you add a quiz within Adobe Presenter, you can always edit it further by adding more quiz questions or even delete the quiz altogether. To perform all the changes to an existing quiz, you need to use the Quiz Manager option. The Quiz Manager lets you organize all of the quizzes and questions in a presentation.

Explore how to manage quiz in Adobe Presenter.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Getting Started with Sections

Sections in PowerPoint is a feature that lets you organize slides into segments or divisions for easier management. For instance if you have many slides, you may find the content difficult to handle, edit, or even deliver. And if you have a few slides, even then you may have the need to organize them logically in Sections. The Section option within PowerPoint 2013 enables you to divide your presentation slides into logical parts.

Learn how the Sections option in PowerPoint 2013 can help to organize your presentation into logical parts.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Slide Management, Tutorials

7th Annual Sharkies: Conversation with Irwin Hipsman

Irwin Hipsman is director of customer community for Brainshark, Inc. Brainshark’s sales enablement solutions help companies drive greater revenue through faster training, increased demand, and more successful sales conversations. With Brainshark, users can turn static content, such as PowerPoint documents, into online and mobile video presentations. Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach and results of their communications, while dramatically reducing costs.

In this conversation, Irwin discusses Brainshark’s Sharkie Awards program, which recently opened for entries.

Geetesh: What are the Sharkies? And how did this concept evolve?

Irwin: The Sharkie Awards are a program that Brainshark and our customers get excited about every year. The awards celebrate the innovative, excellent, and creative presentations that users create to help advance their businesses. We’re always thrilled to see the effective ways customers use our solutions, along with the impressive results they achieve.

As your readers may recall, it’s quick and easy to create a Brainshark presentation. Our cloud-based platform enables users – from sales reps to CEOs – to turn static content such as PowerPoints into voice-enriched, interactive videos. This high-impact video content helps companies improve the effectiveness of their sales, marketing, and training communications, and more.

There’s no cost to submit a presentation for consideration in the Sharkies, and the application process is quick and straightforward. Entrants provide their contact information, along with the presentation URL. Winners are unveiled in an online awards ceremony that we and our customers always look forward to.

This is our seventh year hosting the Sharkies program, and I’ve been privileged to watch it grow and evolve during that whole time. Every year, I’m always wowed by the caliber of entries. Our customers set the bar high! Also, as customers use Brainshark in different ways, and as our own product capabilities, features, and offerings have expanded, we continue to introduce new categories to reflect those current innovations, with recent additions including “Best Mobile-Optimized Presentation” and “Best Use of VideoSync.”

Geetesh: Tell us more about the ongoing 7th Annual Sharkies – how can users participate and vote?

Irwin: Submitting a presentation, as mentioned, is quick, free and easy. Brainshark presentations created in 2014 and 2015 are eligible for judging. There are 13 categories this year, honoring presentations used for sales enablement, marketing, training, charitable causes, and much more. Entries are evaluated based on their aesthetics, organization/flow, creativity, and adept use of Brainshark features. The deadline for submissions is May 31, and we’ll announce winners in September.

A team of enthusiastic Brainshark judges selects the category winners. All winners are then eligible for “Presentation of the Year” honors (gold, silver, and bronze levels), which come with even more acclaim, and prizes! Brainshark customers/users, viewers, fans, and employees, along with other presentation experts, judge this portion of the competition.

As always, everyone at Brainshark is very excited to see and celebrate the entries. Thanks, Geetesh, for the opportunity to discuss the program. We invite your readers, if they’re Brainshark users, to submit presentations. Readers can also follow our blog and our newsletters for more details about the public judging portion. We’d love their input!

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Brainshark, Contest, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint