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SlideShark’s PDF Support: Conversation with Gerry Praysman

  Gerry Praysman is product marketing manager 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. Brainshark also powers SlideShark, the award-winning app for showing, sharing, and tracking mobile sales presentations. Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach and results of their communications, while dramatically reducing costs.

In this conversation, Gerry discusses SlideShark’s newly announced support for PDF documents.

Geetesh: SlideShark now supports PDF files. What does this mean for you and your users?

Gerry: It’s a big deal for both. As you know, SlideShark has traditionally been a PowerPoint-focused app — letting mobile professionals access, show, share, and track their presentations to improve productivity and effectiveness. We’ve amassed millions of users across 160+ countries, who’ve together uploaded more than 200 million slides. At the same time, we recognize that sales conversations and other presentations don’t always rely on PowerPoint exclusively. So, we’re taking the app to the next level of utility — expanding it to a multi-file presentation and content management solution via PDF support.

This is great news for our users. They can fluidly switch between showing and sharing PowerPoint and PDF files from their iOS devices. This gives them the flexibility to incorporate multiple content types — such as marketing brochures or rate cards — into their conversations. Plus, lots of organizations convert other document formats, such as Excel, Word, and Keynote files, into PDFs to lock down and control the content. Now, those PDFs can likewise be viewed, presented, and tracked in SlideShark.

To that end, the analytics piece is another big benefit here, as SlideShark tracks all content shared through the service. So with our PDF support, sales teams, other employees and organizations at large have that much more insight into how effective their content is — how and when it’s being viewed, how much is being consumed and more. Organizations can also see how their sales reps and other users are accessing and presenting content, illuminating best practices and highlighting which documents are most effective.

Geetesh: This PDF support is available in SlideShark’s business version. How does this version differ from the basic, free version – and what abilities other than PDF support do users get?

Gerry: That’s right – SlideShark PDF support is a feature of SlideShark Team Edition, our multi-user business version. Team Edition subscribers, 30-day free trial users and other Brainshark customers with Team Edition activated can take advantage of the new capabilities.

To compare, the free version of SlideShark has compelling features that meet the needs of many individual presenters. Team Edition is geared more toward business use – with PDF support as well as advanced analytics, greater storage allotments, the ability to broadcast presentations to up to 25 attendees, phone support, administrative features (such as the ability to add, manage and delete users, and organize and distribute content), support for single sign-on and more. Team Edition users can also take advantage of SlideShark Anywhere, which extends some of the key SlideShark features to users on their Macs, PCs and Windows 8 tablets – not just iOS.

We’re very excited – and our users are as well – about SlideShark’s new PDF support, and the productivity benefits it unlocks for mobile professionals. Thanks, as always, Geetesh for the opportunity to discuss our new features. Happy holidays to you and your readers!

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.

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Tagged as: Brainshark, Interviews, PDF, PowerPoint

Christmas Animated PowerPoint Slides

Two animated Christmas PowerPoint presentations are included within this download. The first presentation is available in two color variations: white and black. And the second presentation is available in seven color variations: grey, khaki, midnight blue, peach, plum, royal blue, and teal. Go ahead and download these and use these as you want — retaining credit for these slides is something we will appreciate!

Buy and download these slides.

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Tagged as: Animation, Design, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Star of David Clip Arts for PowerPoint

Here are some Star of David clip art graphics for PowerPoint, perfect for the festive season. We provide you with 4 typical graphics in a silhouette style. These graphics are available in both black and white and are contained within two separate sample presentations you download. Just copy the clip art graphics of your choice and paste them into another PowerPoint slide, or even a Word document or Excel worksheet.

Download and use these graphics in your slides.

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Tagged as: Clip Media, Design, Graphics, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Text Box Autofit Options

Have you seen that PowerPoint automatically reduces the size of your text when you type in too much text? Or does the text box itself increase in size when you type in a sentence or two more than what can fit into the text box? Does this automatic hand-holding by PowerPoint drive you crazy and want to hit your head on the wall? Well, you really don’t have to worry because you can make PowerPoint behave itself — and bend it to your will.

Learn about text box autofit options in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Christmas PowerPoint Kit from Indezine

The Indezine Christmas Kit is a self-contained set of slides and other goodies that provides you with everything you need to create Christmas picture slides within PowerPoint. Use this kit as a starting point to create your own picture slides! Then you can email your creations, or share them as a movie clip.

Download this kit and create your own Christmas slides.

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Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples