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SlideShark’s Million Downloads: Conversation with Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson is vice president of SlideShark marketing for Brainshark, Inc. Brainshark’s cloud-based software lets users create online and mobile video presentations — using simple business tools like PowerPoint and the phone or computer microphone — and share and track their content. Brainshark is also the creator of the free SlideShark app for viewing, presenting and sharing PowerPoints on the iPad and iPhone.

In this conversation, Lisa discusses an important milestone for SlideShark — with the app surpassing 1 million downloads — as well as SlideShark’s new integrations with Google Drive and EMC’s Syncplicity.

Geetesh: Can you tell us about the 1 million plus downloads for SlideShark, and what this means for all of you?

Lisa: Reaching, and actually surpassing, the 1 million download mark is a really exciting milestone for us. We are certainly very proud!

It is hugely validating to know that people across the globe — individual and corporate users in more than 140 different countries — rely on SlideShark for their presentation needs, whether it’s preparing for meetings, presenting or following up afterward. SlideShark’s momentum in the market inspires all of us to continue to innovate and make SlideShark an indispensable tool for mobile professionals.

One million downloads speaks to SlideShark’s rapid adoption and the fact that we meet a critical need among iOS users. Prior to our launch a year ago, there was no way to properly and reliably view and present PowerPoints on the iPad and iPhone. We are now the industry standard for this — as well as a platform that organizations and individuals rely on to share, track and manage content in the cloud.

We consistently net two downloads per minute, 24×7, and that pace shows no sign of slowing. The launch of our iPhone version in September further solidified SlideShark’s place as a top “Productivity App” in Apple’s App Store.

Geetesh: You also announced some new features such as integrations with Google Drive and Syncplicity — how is this important for your users?

Lisa: We are constantly looking for ways to help mobile professionals be more productive. Integrating SlideShark with cloud storage providers gives our users access to the presentations they’ve stored in the cloud, directly from their SlideShark account — which saves them time and helps them stay organized on the road. To that end, we have integrated with Google Drive and EMC’s Syncplicity, in addition to Box and Dropbox.

Now, through our new integrations with Google Drive and Syncplicity, SlideShark users benefit from even greater access to their cloud-based presentations. They can tap a button within SlideShark to view and import the PowerPoints they’ve stored with these leading cloud storage providers.

Once the content is in SlideShark, users can view and present it intact on their iOS devices — while taking advantage of SlideShark’s presentation tracking and analytics, and features for following up and sharing content. In addition, our integration with Syncplicity enables organizations to benefit from Syncplicity’s IT policy enforcement features, including remote-wipe capabilities.

We continue to innovate to support our users with new features and want to thank you, Geetesh, for the opportunity to discuss SlideShark!

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, iPad, iPhone, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Changing Color of Pictures

Working with pictures in PowerPoint 2010 can be so much fun and fulfilling at the same time. One of the coolest options is to recolor the hue of your entire picture so that it looks almost like a duotone picture. You have already learned how to apply corrections to your inserted pictures — and this Color option can help you do more with your pictures. Be aware though that although the option itself is called Color, it does not work like a coloring book — rather it changes the overall hue color of the entire picture. This option also allows you to saturate color values, change the overall color tone, and do more.

Learn how to change the color hue of pictures in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Indezine News: November 13, 2012

In this issue, we first look at the new Presenter View in PowerPoint 2013. And we have three amazing frame corner collections this time — you decide if you want them, and what you want to pay for them. You can also choose to pay $0 for the collections, but it’s your support that will help us create more content for you. Next, you get to read conversations with Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg about an amazing book on PowerPoint templates. There’s also a Thanksgiving PowerPoint kit available, and tons of tutorials. Our PowerPoint for Windows tutorials focus on text and pictures, while the PowerPoint for Mac content explores numbered lists and text.

Read the newsletter here.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Move Text Boxes on a Slide

You have already learned about the difference between a text box and a text placeholder. In this tutorial let us explore the ways to move text boxes all around in the slide area. Do note that we suggest you to move only text boxes, and not text placeholders since the positioning of the latter is normally controlled by the Slide Master — do understand that although you can move them, but doing so overrides the defaults within the Slide Master. Typically, text placeholders are located in the same position on successive slides — so if you really do need to move a text placeholder, do it within the Slide Master so that this change of position happens on all slides, providing a consistent look to your presentation.

Learn how to move text boxes on a slide in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Text, Tutorials

Making the Complex Simple

By Jim Endicott

This is a video post, and also includes a text transcript below the video.

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Tagged as: Guest Post, Jim Endicott, Opinion, Presentation Skills