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MightyMeeting: Conversation with Dmitri Tcherevik

Dmitri Tcherevik is the CEO and founder of MightyMeeting, a mobile collaboration and social sharing company. Prior to starting MightyMeeting, Dmitri was the CTO at FatWire, the largest independent web experience management company. FatWire acquired Infostoria, an Enterprise 2.0 company that Dmitri started after he left Computer Associates, where he was responsible for technology strategy and a number of innovative products and initiatives.

In this interview, Dmitri discusses MightyMeeting, and how end users can benefit from this mobile meeting platform.

Geetesh: What exactly is MightyMeeting, and what possibilities does it present to the end users?

Dmitri: MightyMeeting is a mobile presentation tool for every smart phone or tablet user. It is often used for presenting on-the-go, sometimes at a moment’s notice.

Users can put their presentations and demo videos in the cloud and access them anywhere from any device. One can connect a mobile device to a projector and present to a room full of people. One can also start an online meeting and present to the whole world directly from a smart phone or tablet.

MightyMeeting is popular with executives, entrepreneurs, sales people, college professors, doctors, and other professionals who need to present when away from the office.

Our focus on mobility and the mobile user differentiates MightyMeeting from other web conferencing services, such as WebEx, GoToMeeting, and others.

While other services may have iPhone or iPad applications, the reach of their technology is limited by the legacy infrastructure that was designed for fast and reliable office networks. For instance, many such apps can be used to attend a meeting but cannot be used to host a meeting or share a presentation from a mobile device.

In contrast, we built MightyMeeting from the ground up to work with mobile devices and unreliable wireless networks. Dropped calls and slow networks are not exceptions. They are part of the picture. This makes a big difference.

Geetesh: MightyMeeting works with existing technologies such as PowerPoint, iPhone, etc. – can you tell us more about these features?

Dmitri: MightyMeeting is available for the iPhone, iPad, TouchPad, and a range of Android phones and tablets. We also offer a lightweight HTML-only web application that runs on any device with a web browser.

When a user creates a free account on our site, they receive a unique email address. MightyMeeting users upload presentations by simply emailing them to this address from any device or any application. In a matter of minutes, a presentation is available to be viewed online or shared in a meeting. Presentations can be emailed in Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe PDF format.

We also make it super easy to join an audio conference. There are no dial-in numbers or passcodes to remember. You tap one button, and MightyMeeting calls your phone and joins you into the meeting. This feature will be making its debut on the TouchPad next month, when the device is launched by HP.

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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Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Reroute Connectors

You have already learned about all the amazing stuff you can do with connectors in your PowerPoint 2010 slides — all the way from drawing connectors to formatting connectors. Many times when you draw connectors between shapes, the connector may use the shortest path between two shapes — this might mean that your connector overlaps other shapes, text boxes, or any other object that you don’t want to overlap. You might have another reason to use a longer connector between two shapes as well — whatever your reason may be, the good news is that you can easily reroute your connectors — either automatically or manually.

Learn how to use the yellow diamond handle to reroute connectors in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Connectors, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Detach, Re-attach, and Delete Connectors

When a connector is drawn to link two shapes together, it gets attached to a certain point on both shapes. These points are typically those that show red squares when you are attaching them to a connector. Sometimes you may attach your connector to the wrong red square, and may need to detach it from that point, and attach it somewhere else. Or maybe you connected to the wrong shape altogether, and now want to detach the connector from one shape and attach it to another.

Learn how to detach, re-attach, and delete connectors in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: File Formats

How many file formats (types) can PowerPoint 2011 save to? If you count every single format from the necessary to the irrelevant (and forget the missing ones), then the number is 20 file formats for PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, the latest Mac version of this program! Some of these could be genuinely helpful for non-conventional reasons.

Learn about various file formats that PowerPoint 2011 for Mac allows you to save as.

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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Compatibility Report Tab in the Toolbox

The Compatibility Report tab is the last tab within the Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. This tab helps you if the presentations you create in PowerPoint 2011 need to be shared with others who are using other versions of PowerPoint — on either the Mac or even on Microsoft Windows. Within this tab, you can check compatibility of any open presentation with other versions of PowerPoint. The Compatibility Report provides info on every compatibility feature for any version of PowerPoint since Office 97, and it can tell you whether objects (and other features) in your presentation are compatible with other versions. In addition, it also offers to fix some incompatibilities for you.

Learn about the Compatibility Report tab within the Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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