PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Share PowerPoint Presentations on authorSTREAM: Conversation with Dinesh Awasthi

Dinesh Awasthi is Product Manager for authorSTREAM.com. In addition to developing the strategic product roadmap and implementation of various features on authorSTREAM, he works with the development team and keeps an eye on user feedback to formulate new releases. Dinesh holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications.

In this conversation, Dinesh discusses the PowerPoint sharing options on authorSTREAM.com

Geetesh: What are the most simple means in which anyone can share their presentations online on authorSTREAM.com?

Dinesh: Sharing PowerPoint presentations online on authorSTREAM.com is faster and easier with in-built sharing options. Following are the simple ways to share slideshows with anyone on authorSTREAM:

• Get a unique link (URL) for your presentations and share via email with others.
• Automatically share on Twitter and Facebook. Once you activate Auto Post, your presentation gets automatically published on Twitter or Facebook as soon as you upload them on authorSTREAM.
• Post other members’ public PowerPoint presentations freely on social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and StumbleUpon.
• Embed presentations on various websites or blogs of your choice.

Geetesh: How can they use more advanced options such as sharing only with selected people, set pass codes, and prevent embedding of their content?

Dinesh: authorSTREAM provides full privacy giving users complete control over who, what and how to share their presentations. Users can share their presentations privately with only people they select with the option to grant and revoke access anytime, set a secret passcode to view, and restrict private embedding to certain websites or blogs by opting for our premium plans.

There are two plans that we are currently offering: authorSTREAM Pro ($29.95/year) and authorSTREAM Business ($39.95/month).Pro ($29.95/year) is for any advanced user of authorSTREAM who is looking for presentation analytics, passcode protected presentations and unlimited private uploads whereas Business is meant for users who, in addition to features available in the Pro account, want more control over embeds or sharing, detailed presentation analytics, unlimited PowerPoint to video conversions, branding and customization.

See Also: authorSTREAM Premium Subscriptions: Conversation with Harman Singh.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: authorSTREAM, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Change Colors of SmartArt

Once you insert a SmartArt graphic within PowerPoint 2011, you might realize that the colors of the individual shapes comprising the SmartArt graphic are not exactly what you wanted — and while it is possible to change colors of individual shapes within the SmartArt graphic, PowerPoint lets you change the colors of everything within the SmartArt graphic at one go — not only does this save your time, but also ensures that the different colors chosen are coordinated to look good together.

Learn how to change colors of a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2011, SmartArt, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2003: Handout Master

Handouts are presentation accompaniments that are almost always intended for print. It is a good idea to distribute handouts before your PowerPoint presentation’s delivery so that the audience follow along the presentation. You can control the look of your handouts by formatting the Handout Master. This can be useful if you want to include a graphic such as a logo on each page of your handout. Customizing the Handout Master is easy, and you can thereafter print your presentation handouts with one, two, three, four, six, or nine slides on a page.

Learn about the Handout Master in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Masters, PowerPoint 2003, Templates, Tutorials

KVStudio: Conversation with Michael Kolowich

Michael Kolowich is founder and CEO of KnowledgeVision, which has developed enterprise-grade tools for creating, managing, and distributing synchronized interactive online video presentations for communications, marketing, training, and sales professionals.

In this discussion, Michael discusses KVStudio, an online presentation platform.

Geetesh: What exactly is KVStudio, and how would you describe its capabilities to a person whose presentation adventures have never ventured beyond PowerPoint?

Michael: Simply put, KVStudio is an easy-to-use web tool and service from KnowledgeVision that captures the live presentation experience and makes it available on-demand on the web — complete with video of the speaker, fully-animated PowerPoint slides, and handouts, and footnotes. It’s the quickest and easiest way to turn your business presentations into interactive video web assets for content marketing, sales support, training, corporate communications, and investor relations. KnowledgeVision is great for putting a company’s best presentations and communicators to work on the web, 24/7, anywhere in the world.

For an example of a KnowledgeVision presentation, take a look at https://www.knowledgevision.com/demonstration.

KVStudio is remarkably easy to learn, and can be used on both Mac and Windows computers. Just upload a PowerPoint file, upload a video file or turn on a webcam, and you can publish a completely interactive online video presentation in minutes. You can then drop the presentation into your website, emails, blogs — anywhere you can publish web content. And we also support publishing presentations to the Apple iPad.

We take care of everything — the file conversion, video streaming, storage. All you do is upload the files, synchronize the slides to the video using a simple interface, choose a designer player template, and name the presentation. We do the rest.

Geetesh: What are the various editions of KVStudio, how are they different, and how much do they cost?

Michael: KnowledgeVision offers KVStudio in three editions, starting at $195 per month, to meet different levels of required features, usage, and budget:

• The Basic Edition contains all the core KnowledgeVision functionality, and can host up to 10 presentations at any one time. It is priced at $195 per month, with annual purchase options available.
• Most of our customers choose the Professional Edition, which adds more customization features and supports up to 50 presentations at a time. In addition to on-demand presentations, live presentations are also offered as a option. KVStudio Professional Edition is priced at $5,000 per year.
• And larger organizations prefer the Enterprise Edition, which supports 5 or more content creators, 100 presentations, and offers even more customization, training and support, and features. KVStudio Enterprise Edition is priced at $11,000 per year.

A complete description of the features and pricing of the three KVStudio editions may be found at https://www.knowledgevision.com/kvpricing.

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: Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Change between SmartArt Graphic Layouts

Inserting a SmartArt graphic within PowerPoint 2011 or even converting existing bulleted text to SmartArt is easy — you can choose from various SmartArt graphic variations available within PowerPoint. However at some point of time, you may realize that the SmartArt graphic variant you chose is not the perfect option to show the kind of relationship or logic that you want to illustrate. Fortunately, there are so many other SmartArt types available — and changing an existing SmartArt graphic to some other layout (type) is painless.

Learn how to change from one SmartArt graphic layout (type) to another in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2011, SmartArt, Tutorials