PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Presentation Deployer: The Indezine Review

PowerPoint 2010 with the new features such as the snazzy transitions and the ability to control media in a much better way does create better presentations. Ironically when Microsoft provided these amazing features in this version, they took away the ability to create self running CDs and DVDs. In its place they provided a solution that’s not elegant and assumes that people viewing off CDs are always connected online! Presentation Deployer, our review product addresses this problem.

Read the Indezine review of Presentation Deployer.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review

PowerPoint Sins: Conversation with Simon Morton

    Simon Morton founded Eyeful Presentations in 2003 to provide presentation services to businesses looking to improve the way they share information with their most important audiences – prospects, customers, employees & shareholders. The company firmly believes that key to their success is their unique approach of addressing the entire presentation process through their Presentation Optimization methodology. This holistic approach ensures that clients’ presentations are made more effective, not just prettier.

In this conversation, Simon talks about the prevalent PowerPoint sins, and what users can do to stay away from them!

Geetesh: What according to you are the highest-ranking PowerPoint sins? Tell us about them.

Simon: We’ve seen an interesting increase in the perception of PowerPoint sins over the last few years. Phrases like Death by PowerPoint are now commonplace and with high profile media stories surrounding hideous PowerPoints slides being used by the likes of the US Military, fuel is frequently added to the flames.

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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Design, Interviews, Opinion, PowerPoint, Simon Morton

Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows

We already showed you how you can create outlines for your PowerPoint presentation in Notepad (Microsoft Windows) and TextEdit (Mac OS X). We still maintain that it’s best you use either of these text editors but if you already created a structure for your presentation in Microsoft Word (or if your boss or colleague sent you one), it makes no sense to abandon it for a text editor. Follow these steps to create an outline for your PowerPoint presentation using Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows.

Learn how to create outlines for presentations in Microsoft Word 2003 that are formatted for failsafe import into Microsoft PowerPoint.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint, Tutorials, Word

50 Best PowerPoint 2007 Tips, Tricks, & Techniques: The Indezine Review

PowerPoint is used by a multitude of people including business persons, educators, students, trainers, and even hobbyists who spend endless hours creating countless presentations around the world. With some easy to use techniques and helpful tips, you can easily cut down your presentation creation time by half and also end up creating better PowerPoint presentations. Danny Rocks’ 50 Best PowerPoint 2007 Tips, Tricks, & Techniques DVD is full of cool videos that help you attain that objective.

Read the Indezine review of 50 Best PowerPoint 2007 Tips, Tricks, & Techniques.

Filed Under: Microsoft Office
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Training

GoldMail for PowerPoint: Conversation with Mark Pierce

Mark Pierce is VP of Business Development at GoldMail, a PowerPoint integrated communication platform that is available for free. Previously, Mark spent the better part of 6 years leading sales teams for Microsoft’s Unified Communications group.

In this conversation, Mark discusses how GoldMail can help easily create convincing messages with voice-overs using PowerPoint content.

Geetesh: What exactly does GoldMail do, and how can PowerPoint users benefit?

Mark: GoldMail gives you the ability to easily overlay your voice on top of content and then share your on-demand slide show via email or post it online. With GoldMail, a non-technical business person can take a PowerPoint presentation, a picture or a screenshot and then record, in their own voice, a personalized message that puts the images in context and conveys — with nuances and affect — what is most important.

Geetesh: Can you share some scenarios that will show how GoldMail can benefit business users.

Mark: GoldMail helps businesses drive revenue, cut costs and save time by giving them a breakthrough way to communicate in an on-demand fashion.

It gives business user the easiest way to create compelling on-demand presentations and messages that create business impact. Some scenarios:

• Eliminate one direction conference calls by sending a GoldMail instead.
• Don’t let associates guess what your PowerPoint deck means, your voice matters in person and it also matters online. Quickly narrate over materials for impact, clarity and emotion.
• Lead to better collaboration, by sending a GoldMail before a meeting, now, participants are updated about with information and ready to make decisions.
• Catch the attention of a new prospect by sending a GoldMail that explains your value proposition.
• Update geographically dispersed colleagues so you can make decisions, quicker.
• Have subject matter experts record GoldMails that can be used over and over again in the sales process.
• Save time and money when training, re-use GoldMails over and over again.

GoldMail is available for free here.

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Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, PowerPoint