PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Raptivity Presenter – Interactive Graphs Pack: The Indezine Review

Raptivity Presenter, a PowerPoint add-in that allows you to add interactivity to your PowerPoint presentations, has already been reviewed on this site. In this review, I’ll explore a new pack called the Interactive Graphs Pack for Raptivity Presenter which allows you to add interactive graphs and charts.

Read the review here.

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Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review

Learn PowerPoint 2010: 3-D Format Options for Shapes in PowerPoint

3-D Options in PowerPoint 2010 let you format the bevel style of a shape with many more options than those available in the conventional Bevel gallery you explored in our Apply Bevel Effects to Shapes In PowerPoint 2010 tutorial. You can customize options such as contour, contour color, depth, depth color, and materials. This detailed tutorial explains every option within the 3-D Options gamut.

Explore the 3-D Format options available for shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Effects, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Brainshark Partnership with m62: Conversation with Dave Fitzgerald

Dave Fitzgerald is executive vice president of Brainshark, Inc., a leader in online and mobile video presentations. In his role, Dave oversees all aspects of Brainshark’s sales, marketing and service operations.

In this conversation, Dave discusses Brainshark’s newly announced partnership with m62.

Geetesh: Who is m62, and what does Brainshark’s new partnership with them provide?

Dave: m62 is a leading presentation design firm headquartered in Liverpool, England, with additional offices in Singapore and New York. The company provides services ranging from presentation design to advanced PowerPoint and presentation skills training.

e’re excited to announce this partnership with m62, and apply our joint expertise to help companies maximize the impact of their communications. Through the partnership, m62 will now be reselling Brainshark’s enterprise offerings to companies in the U.K. and across the globe. This extends the benefits of Brainshark to an even larger audience, allowing users with as little as a PowerPoint deck and the phone to create high-impact video presentations within minutes.

Geetesh: What Brainshark abilities dovetail with m62, and how is this a win-win situation?

Dave: We feel this partnership is a particularly good match because our missions – to help companies and business professionals create and deliver compelling presentations – are truly complementary. We both arm our customers with solutions and resources for delivering stellar content that increases sales win rates, marketing conversions, training success and overall revenues.

Customers can benefit from m62’s deep-seated presentation expertise and ability to powerfully combine visual and verbal communications. At the same time, Brainshark also now provides m62’s customers with an easy, cost-effective way to deliver their presentations on-demand – no travel costs or scheduling overhead. Audiences can experience the communications where, when and how they want, including from smartphones and tablets like the iPad.

We’ve recently embarked on a series of roadshows with m62 throughout the U.K., where we’ll be sharing presentation best practices with attendees. We look forward to continuing our strong partnership and to the resulting benefits for Brainshark and m62 customers.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Apply Bevel Effects to Shapes In PowerPoint

You have already learned about some of the Shape Effects available in PowerPoint 2010 as part of this tutorial series — you now learn how to add a Bevel effect to a selected shape in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Learn to apply Bevel effects to selected shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Effects, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Symbol Slides: St. Patrick’s Day Shamrocks (PowerPoint Clip Art)

St. Patrick’s Day Shamrocks for PowerPoint are ready to use clip-art style symbols that you can use within your presentation slides. Although the shamrock symbols you download from this page are green in color, they can be recolored using PowerPoint’s native options for fills, lines, and effects. These shamrock symbols are contained within a sample presentation you can download. Just copy the shamrock symbol you like and paste into another PowerPoint slide, or even a Word document or Excel worksheet. All these shamrock symbols are vector shapes, so you can easily edit them within your Microsoft Office program.

Download, view, and use the shamrock symbols contained in these presentations.

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Tagged as: Clip Media, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples