PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Add, Edit, or Delete Comments

When you are collaborating on a presentation, or even if someone else is designing slides for you — you will want to give feedback without actually editing the slides themselves. Comments are great for such scenarios — a Comment is a note that you can attach to any slide object or to a whole slide. The ability to add comments into your PowerPoint 2013 presentation enables you to write important notes for particular slide object or for the slide and it is a great way to provide feedback to others about their presentation. Once you add a comment, you can edit the comment and even get replies for the comment.

Learn how to add, edit, or delete Comments in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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SlideShare’s Android App: Conversation with Andri Kristinsson

  Andri Kristinsson is a Product Manager at SlideShare, spearheading the mobile team. The SlideShare mobile team is growing fast and recently launched its first app on Android after less than 6 months in development, with and iOS coming up soon as well. Prior to moving to the Silicon Valley in 2011, Andri was the founder and CEO of Innovit, a leading Entrepreneurship Center in Iceland where he helped hundreds of entrepreneurs grow through programs such as Startup Weekend and Startup Reykjavik, a TechStars global network accelerator. Andri has a B.Sc. in computer and electrical engineering from the University of Iceland and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In this conversation, Andri discusses SlideShare’s new Android app.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Drawing Target Diagrams

PowerPoint 2013 has a ready to use collection of shapes that can be inserted with a click or two. You can add multiple shapes on the same slide and then flip, rotate, reorder, or group them as required to create your own combined diagrams and designs within PowerPoint. These combined shapes help create more involved diagrams such as a target diagram. In this tutorial we’ll show you how simple it is to create a target by placing circles of various sizes one on top of the other using the techniques of formatting shapes already explained.

Learn how to draw a target diagram with multiple circles in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Speaker, Leader, Champion: Conversation with Ryan Avery

Ryan Avery is an award winning speaker, best-selling author of the new book published by McGraw-Hill, Speaker Leader Champion: Succeed at Work Through the Power of Public Speaking. At age 23, Ryan won his first Emmy Award for producing Colorado State University’s first ever multimedia package. He currently lives in Portland, OR with his wife Chelsea and they have been together for over six years.

In this conversation, Ryan discusses his new book, Speaker, Leader, Champion that he co-authored with Jeremey Donovan.

Geetesh: Tell us more about what motivated you to author Speaker, Leader, Champion. And also what were the strengths that you and your co-author Jeremey Donovan brought to this book?

Ryan: I would highly recommend co-authoring your first book. There are so many benefits to doing it this way. The main reasons are it keeps you accountable for writing and delivering your word count, it pushes you to be a better writer, you get double the reach when you start marketing, you get double the brain power when you are creating content and both of you bring strengths to the entire process from writing, to marketing, to design. You create a better book when you work together. I was lucky to partner with Jeremey. He is talented in many ways and we share similar values of family, commitment and the power of public speaking. Working with him sounded like the right thing to do at the time and still does today.

Throughout this process we have grown as speakers, writers and marketers helping each other out along the way. I consider it to be one of my favorite partnerships. With Jeremey’s writing background and my marketing experience, we knew we could develop a resource that reached the masses and educated many.

Geetesh: What’s the most important takeaway for the reader in this book?

Ryan: The most important takeaway from this book is to understand that if you improve your communication skills, you improve all areas of your life. Specifically, if you want to be more successful at work, learn how to become a speaker who can wow any audience!

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PowerPoint and Presenting News: May 13, 2014

This week we have several exclusive interviews. First of all, hear from Dr. Nick Morgan about his new book, Power Cues that looks at non-verbal communication skills. Marco Montemagno speaks about his online Presentation SuperSummit. We explore another Callout sample and also review Office Timeline, a PowerPoint add-in that lets you create timelines within PowerPoint. We then explore a non-presentation product, Xara Web Designer 10 Premium.

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn this week about saving movies from your slides, and also about some caveats in doing so. We look at Chart Area stuff, and also explore how you can work more effectively with Connectors.

And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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