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Every presentation is created for a reason — and whatever that reason may be, its fulfillment often requires that a presentation is shown in PowerPoint’s Slide Show view. Slide Show view typically plays your presentation in full screen mode, although that setting can be changed if you want — we show you how to do that later in this tutorial.
Learn about Slide Show View in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials
Smart guides (some users call them whiskers) are guides that are not visible on the slide all the time. In fact they only make an appearance when you start moving slide objects around. Move any slide object and these guides show up dynamically — that’s how they ended up being called “dynamic guides”. Whatever you call them: smart guides, dynamic guides, or whiskers — they are of great help when you align slide objects. These guides work like little alignment lines that appear when you drag one object close to another.
Learn about what smart guides are and how they work in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials
Andy Zimmerman is chief marketing officer for Brainshark, Inc., overseeing the company’s marketing organization, strategy, content and demand generation programs. Brainshark’s cloud-based software enables users to create online and mobile video presentations – using simple business tools like PowerPoint and the telephone – and then share and track their content. Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach and results of their business communications, while dramatically reducing communications costs.
In this conversation, Andy discusses Brainshark’s recent receipt of a Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Award.
Geetesh: Tell us about the Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Award that Brainshark won, and what this means to you.
Andy: We’re proud and honored to have been recognized by Brandon Hall Group. Brandon Hall, a leading research firm focusing on employee training and development, issues these awards on a yearly basis, recognizing technological advances in products for workplace learning.
All of us at Brainshark take pride in receiving this award, which also underscores our commitment to future innovation – including providing advanced, cost-effective mobile learning functionality to companies of all sizes. We’d like to thank our loyal customers who rely on our products for their training and communication needs, and share this honor with our customer community as well. They’re applying Brainshark in exciting ways to transform their communication processes, and we look forward to supporting their future initiatives, and formal and informal learning needs.
Geetesh: What is this award all about, and how is Brainshark suited to receive this recognition?
Andy: Specifically, Brainshark was awarded a gold medal in the “Best Advance in Technology for Rich-Media Authoring” category, in recognition of our myBrainshark.com site, used by individuals and small businesses. Brainshark has always prided itself on empowering subject matter experts to easily and rapidly create eLearning content, and myBrainshark is no exception.
As you can see from the below demo, myBrainshark lets any Internet user add their voice – along with video clips, survey and test questions, attachments and more – to PowerPoint decks and other business content, to create online video presentations. Content can be viewed anytime, anywhere – including from smartphones and tablets, and supporting on-the-go learning. In addition, our users can easily share and track their content – all for free.
We’re also pleased to have myBrainshark serve as a destination for learning, as anyone can peruse our free eLearning catalog with thousands of quality titles. Users can also apply to become “Learning Providers,” a free designation that provides them with content syndication opportunities and the ability to price their business-oriented learning content, if desired. And if users choose to upgrade to a myBrainshark Pro Trainer subscription, they can take advantage of even more advanced eLearning capabilities.
Through myBrainshark, along with our enterprise-oriented learning offerings, we remain committed to helping our users quickly and easily create high-impact eLearning content that achieves their business goals. It’s quite an honor to have been recognized by Brandon Hall for the benefits we’re bringing to our users, and we look forward to continuing to support their important learning initiatives.
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, Online Presentations, PowerPoint
Among the many views that PowerPoint 2011 for Mac includes is the Slide Master view — the Slide Master influences the default text formatting and slide layouts for any slide in a presentation. Any changes you make to the Slide Master and its layouts are instantly applied to the entire presentation. The purpose of this tutorial though is not to teach you how you can modify the Slide Master, but how you can achttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifcess it, and what the interface looks like.
Learn about the Slide Master View in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Seema Chaudhary helped establish the US headquarters of Harbinger Group in Redmond; created innovative and effective marketing campaigns to launch several products in the international market; and developed crucial long-lasting relationships with prominent and influential experts in the e-Learning industry.
In this conversation, Seema discusses YawnBuster Connect.
Geetesh: What exactly is YawnBuster Connect, and what does it do?
Seema: Last week we released YawnBuster Connect, which comprises our next generation of online audience response systems (ARS). YawnBuster Connect will allow teachers, trainers and business presenters to easily and affordably engage and interact with their audience.
The product is a cutting-edge ARS that combines YawnBuster, our award-winning presentation software, into a new program. The advanced response system lets presenters and speakers collect, view and instantly share audience responses in real time without the need for traditional audience clicker pads or any software installation for viewers.
YawnBuster Connect works for both online meetings and webinars as well as in-person seminars and lectures. Attendees need just a mobile device or a laptop to become an active part of the session. The audience can interact with the presentation by simply visiting a URL on their mobile phone or laptop’s web browser.
For presenters, YawnBuster Connect is a significant step forward from what has been available until now. Traditional hardware-dependent audience response systems – slammers or clickers that look like a remote control – are very expensive and are limited to only face-to-face meetings, and software keypads can only be used in virtual meetings.
Geetesh: What is unique about YawnBuster Connect, and is it available as a subscription or one-time purchase?< Seema: YawnBuster Connect truly connects presenters to their audiences like never before. The system not only allows presenters to adapt their material as they go along to make it more relevant for viewers, but they can review reports afterwards to improve their presentations the next time.
Our goal was to provide a cutting-edge ARS that is powerful and yet simple to use. We think we’ve done just that with YawnBuster Connect. Because it’s so easy to operate, teachers and other presenters can focus on what they do best – present the content, rather than spend their time managing the hardware or software part of an audience response system.
Every YawnBuster Connect session is given a unique id and a unique URL, which the presenter can show on the big screen in the room or via web meeting software. The attendees can answer questions, participate in a poll or game, and even type in free-form text to chip in with their opinions.
YawnBuster Connect is available in a periodic subscription model from the YawnBuster website.
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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