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This article appeared in the erstwhile Presentations magazine dated February 2003.
Today, billions of electronic presentations inhabit millions of hard disks in every corner of the world, and more than 90 percent of these presentations were created with Microsoft PowerPoint. Unfortunately, most have a short life span. Typically these presentations are used only once or twice, then filed and forgotten — an enormous waste of time and valuable information. Yet this content can be repurposed, redistributed and reused in a number of different ways.
Read more about PowerPoint repurposing here.
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Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Delivery, Distribution, PowerPoint
Ray Huang graduated from Texas Christian University and University of Texas at Arlington majoring in Computer Science. Ray has 15 years experience developing software for Windows and Mac, and heads Senstic, a small development house that provides solutions that run on your mobile computers, PDA, mobile phones and other portable devices.
In this conversation, Ray discusses the i-Clickr PowerPoint Remote product.
Geetesh: What does iClickr do, and how can it help people who forget carrying their remotes along?
Ray: iClickr is a wireless presentation remote for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Windows Phone. With iClickr, you can control your PowerPoint presentation (i.e., going forward, back, jump to a particular slide). iClickr has a built-in timer that helps you control your presentation time. You can even view your slide notes directly on the phone. iClickr works with Microsoft PowerPoint XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010 on Windows, and PowerPoint 2004 and 2008 on Mac. It also works with the free OpenOffice on Windows, and Apple’s iWork’09 Keynote.
With iClickr installed on your phone, you no longer need to carry a separate remote device. Since the iClickr software for computer is free to download, you can use it with any host computer. When using it with your personal laptop, you can let iClickr set up wireless ad hoc networks directly between your laptop and your phone, and thus bypassing additional network infrastructure.
Geetesh: Tell us more about how you hit on this concept, and about your newest release for the iClickr on the iPhone and iPad.
Ray: I came up with this idea when I was doing my graduate degree at University of Texas at Arlington. There were just too many presentations every week, and I kept forgetting bringing my Logitech clicker. So, I thought it would be nice to have the clicker on my mobile phone. It’s one less gadget to carry, and it’s highly unlikely I would forget to bring my phone. The first version of i-Clickr is on Windows Mobile, and when iPhone came along, we developed for it with additional features. For the iPad version, we took advantage of its larger screen and made the change to display both slide view and slide notes on the same page.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, iPad, iPhone, PDA, Phone, PowerPoint
Sabra Larkin, director of communications for Spence-Chapin, has been working with staff for the past 10 years to help implement Spence-Chapin’s mission of finding loving homes for children in need both in the United States and internationally.
Spence Chapin recently received a free Brainshark software license, as part of Brainshark’s Non-Profit Program, where Brainshark awards technology grants to non-profits on a quarterly basis. In this conversation, Sabra discusses how the use of PowerPoint and Brainshark helps them.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Brainshark, Case Studies, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint
Squares can be animated like any other shape to appear and build up but that looks conventional — so I cooked up this different style that combines squares filled with pictures and other shapes that just have gradient fills to animate together in sequence. The end result is an animation style that’s simple, yet different. All the gradients used are Theme aware — so your squares will always look coordinated in any presentation. Feel free to download this slide and use it in your presentations.
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Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Shapes
Unlike the Credits animation sequence that’s built in within PowerPoint, this is different because you get a zoom in, fade, and movement effects all at once — and then the text descends and disappears! Keep adding any number of text boxes as you want and they will seamlessly animate one after the other.
If you’d rather not do all this on your own, you can download the free sample PowerPoint presentation here and use it as one of the slides in your own presentation.
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Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Shapes
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