PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: The Carmine Gallo Interview

Carmine Gallo is a communications coach for the world’s most admired brands. His client list includes Intel, Chase, Barclays, IBM, Nokia, and many others. He is an Emmy award-winning journalist and former anchor, host, and business correspondent for CNN, Fox, CNET, and CBS. He is a sought-after speaker and author of the new book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience.

In this interview, Carmine talks about this new book. Read the interview here.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Books, Carmine Gallo, Delivery, Design, Interviews

PresentationPro PowerSLIDES: The Indezine Review

Expressing ideas using visuals is always a great option as long as you use relevant content. Visuals are actually a much larger family than just pictures — they can also include content like maps, illustrations, charts, etc. In addition, they often include collections of shapes that function as frameworks. Our review product is called PowerSLIDES, and it is a collection of such multi-purpose framework slides.

Read the review here.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Review, Templates

PresenterMedia: Conversation with Art Holden

Art Holden has been in the animation and presentation industry since 1996. He helped start Animation Factory in 1997 and served as general manager of Animation Factory for thirteen years. He currently lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, and works with PresenterMedia, a media content creation company.

Geetesh: Art, tell us about PresenterMedia. Also, in which ways can this site help PowerPoint designers get good content?

Art: PresenterMedia is a unique design company. We utilize 3D design and video animation applications to create vibrant and compelling imagery exclusively for PowerPoint. Some may call what we are doing 3D clip art, and while that may be appropriate, the term ‘clip art’ really fails to do justice to the high quality 3D imagery we are producing on a daily basis.

We have created 3D animations and images in a variety of business subjects tailored directly to the PowerPoint user. Our special PNG images fit seamlessly into existing presentations due to their unique transparent backgrounds.

PresenterMedia is also unique in that each of our images and animations can be customized before downloading. A customer can control the amount of reflections and the shadow strength our 3D images cast on a presentation slide.

We are one of the first PowerPoint template designers to release animated templates for PowerPoint 2010. The new video features of PowerPoint 2010 have allowed us to provide our customers with a very rich media experience.

PresenterMedia customers are able to download unlimited templates, animations, and clip art through a PresenterMedia subscription.

Geetesh: We looked at your web site, and one page about the team at PresenterMedia caught our attention. Can you tell us more?

Art: PresenterMedia is a company made up entirely of artists. Since 1996, we’ve created animations and artwork for other design companies and distributors. We’ve created hundreds of thousands of images for companies, such as Animation Factory, Clipart, and JupiterImages. PresenterMedia is the natural extension of the talent and skills we’ve learned working for others.

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.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Art Holden, Clip Media, Interviews, PowerPoint, Templates

Learn PowerPoint 2007 and 2010: Recolor Picture Backgrounds

One of the worst things that you can do to your PowerPoint presentation is to add a busy, multi-colored background to your slides. However, people do that all the time and in the process, they compromise the subtlety and contrast of any content on their slides. One option is to recolor your backgrounds to make them more understated, and I do agree that this is a slightly difficult task to accomplish unless you use the new Recolor options available for pictures in both PowerPoint 2007 and 2010.

Learn more here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Photos, PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Launching LegalPPT

I have some news to share with you all — especially if you work in the legal field, or if you have friends or colleagues who do.

The legal profession is one of the most high profile users of PowerPoint presentations, and I am glad to announce the launch of a whole new site, LegalPPT.com to address the needs of this niche market.

This site has been a work in progress for far too long! I wanted to make sure that I was not doing any training sessions, or traveling to conferences, or even on vacation when I get this moving ahead. Unfortunately, that was easier said than done — hence the delay.

Now that we are going ahead with launching this site, let me tell you that we already have a few legal PowerPoint templates for you to download — more templates and other stuff should be coming soon.

By other stuff, we mean PowerPoint sample presentations, book reviews, resources, interviews, and more — all for PowerPoint users in the legal domain!

Filed Under: Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Legal, PowerPoint