MasterView International March 14th, 2003 Issue #14 ___________________________________________________________ In this issue:
___________________________________________________________ MasterView International is a monthly newsletter about: How To Create and manage Effective PowerPoint Presentations For International Audiences ___________________________________________________________ by IKONOS New Media Executive Editor: Igor Raznatovic Editor-in-Chief: Luigi Canali De Rossi Dear friend, welcome to a new issue of MasterView. Yes, it was not your email account or the new spam filter you have installed. We have been on pause for a short while in order to extend and improve the reach and quality of our free service. MasterView International is back and ready to follow-up on the good start we have been able to give it. Executive Editor Simone Luchini has left us to pursue further his learning vocation and to obtain an MBA he has been dreaming of for a long time. Good luck to Simone and thanks to him for an excellent job he has carried out over the course of the last year and more. Thanks Simone, you did an excellent job at this! On the executive editor chair now sits Igor Raznatovic, IKONOS Presentation and Web Publishing Specialist along with Nicole Neuberger who will be also editing and contributing quality content and ideas to this newsletter. Igor is a very young and brilliant guy from former Yugoslavia who wisely fuses passion for art and technology. Igor is indeed a long time musician, as well as a skilled HTML coder and PowerPoint presenter. Igor speaks at least three languages fluently and is an open-minded and truly listening person. He has already showed good technical competence and skill in responding to some of your difficult questions directed at the ask-masterview@egroups free helpdesk. I am proud to have Igor on the MasterView International team and I look forward to see him grow and create valuable, hard-to-find and unique content while I wish to be able to keep up with him and to learn more of whatever valuable solution he finds out before I do. ;-) MasterView focus remains tightly centered on the issues relating to creating, managing and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations for international audiences. In this "international" approach MasterView reports particularly about those tools and techniques that help trainers and communicators present their ideas effectively inside and outside corporate walls. More space will be now devoted also to digital imaging, an area in which anyone can hardly avoid finding out more. How do you get those neat new digital photographs into PowerPoint slides? How do you retouch, crop, resize, edit them without having to buy Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro? Which are the appropriate graphic file formats to use when preparing PowerPoint presentations? MasterView will also keep reporting about issues related to Information Design and related topics. Among the new items on the menu, from this issue, a new MasterView area of reporting will be in the field of managing and delivering live presentations. Many of you have requested information about how to deliver on-line live presentations that are altenative to the high cost per seat/minute or to the trouble of installing expensive server-based systems like WebEx, Centra or Placeware systems inside your organization. Live presentations, online collaboration and the ability to present ideas online with audio and video, is an important area that provides freedom from physical constraints and tremendous cost savings to those of you that frequently travel to lecture, showcase, demo or train others in your field of expertise. I will be personally introducing and reporting to you about this new fascinating and effective group of technologies that can allow you in no-time at all to talk live on the Internet (even across great distances), to show PowerPoint presentations live or to poll, interact and share document with selected colleagues. Finally a word of mention for Nicole Neuberger, our Junior Usability Specialist and Online Reporter that has joined forces with us and will be contributing to this newsletter. Nicole, who is a bright and dedicated student of new media technologies and online communication, will be submitting relevant posts in the areas of Interface Design, Data Visualization, Online Collaboration and Exchange and on other relevant research categories that she is currently working on while supporting the Sharewood Tidings section of Robin Good's Web site (http://www.masternewmedia.org). At Masterview we have several new positive changes and additions coming into life in the coming weeks bot for the newsletter and the Web site (http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com). I will be reporting about them in the coming issues of MasterView. Stay tuned. Not only I do my best to make sure that each issue has lots of useful information that you can immediately put to use but I look forward to your kind feedback, critique, comments and requests to make this information vehicle as close to your needs as possible. Let me know how can we improve MasterView further. Luigi Canali De Rossi Editor in Chief MasterView International Luigi.Canali#ikonosnewmedia.com For PowerPoint-related questions write to Ask-MasterView Online Helpdesk at: ask-masterview@egroups.com For personal feedback, requests, comments, tips, URLs to review: Masterview_editors#ikonosnewmedia.com Igor.Raznatovic#ikonosnewmedia.com Nicole.Neuberger#ikonosnewmedia.com Luigi.Canali#ikonosnewmedia.com _____________________________________ Do you want to deliver live presentations on the Internet? Do you want to talk live, and with crystal clear voice, to your far-away friends and collagues connected to the Internet? Are you looking for ways to show and interact with your customers and students online? Do you want to find out which are the real, cost-effective alternatives to WebEx, Centra, Placeware? "Robin Good's Official Guide to SOHO Web Conferencing and Live Presentation Tools" tells the pros and cons of the best 18 conferencing tools Now available. Find out more at: http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/webconferencing/ _____________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How To Find Out The Size Of A PowerPoint Presentation With the development of computers, the variety of file types that you can view, record or edit has grown exponentially. One thing is notable there; all these new files require more space. The sizes of the files have grown tremendously since the computers entered the business world. Examples are many, but the most common one is in the case of written (text) documents. If you open a simple text file (my_memo.txt) that contains one sentence - "Hello World!" - in Microsoft Word and then save it as a Word document, you will notice that the file saved in Word (my_memo.doc) is now thousands (!) times bigger than the original text file (my_memo.txt). I did this little experiment and obtained 12 bytes for the TXT file and 24,064 bytes for the DOC file. File size can become a problem when you have to save your file on a Floppy disk. Many companies tried to push a new standard, more appropriate for the size of today's files, and more or less they all failed. This practically means that floppy drives will be around for at least couple of more years. Since on the floppy disk you can fit only 1.44 MB of information (1MB=1,024KB=1,048,576 so a floppy of 1.44MB is 1474KB or 1509949 bytes in size) it becomes important to know how big is your PowerPoint presentation files are if you want to successfully save them on floppy disk. You can easily find out the size of your presentation most easily by checking the presentation properties while you are working in PowerPoint: a) Open your presentation in PowerPoint. b) In the Menu bar go to "File >> Properties" and click. A Properties window will open. It has five tabs named "General", "Summary", "Statistics", "Contents" and "Custom". c) Click on the "General" tab in the Properties window. This tab lists main data about your presentation: its name, type, location and finally, the size. If your presentation is lighter than 1 megabyte (MB), the size is represented in kilobytes (KB). As soon as your presentation file exceeds 1024 KB, which corresponds to 1 MB, its size will be represented in MB units. Therefore, seeing the MB acronym should alert you that maybe the file will not fit on a floppy disk. As long as your file stays under 1.44MB, you are fine. If your file exceeds 1.44MB, which happens if you have used images and sound extensively in your presentation, you will either have to size it down in order to fit it on one floppy disk or you will have to distribute the presentation over more than one floppy disk. The so-called Pack-And-Go technique allows you to save the presentation on more than one floppy by splitting it into blocks, which can be automatically reassembled later. (See MasterView Issue #1, art. 3 http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/masterview1.htm for more detailed information on Pack-And-Go.) In the following section I will introduce a downsizing technique to you, which maybe can save you the work of distributing your presentation over several disks. --------------------------------------------------------------- 2) How To Quickly Reduce The Size Of A PowerPoint Presentation That Contains Many Uncompressed Images Recently I attended a lecture about Mexican culture depicted through the history of art. Somewhere in the middle of the lecture, the computer just froze-up. I offered my help to fix the presentation so that the lecture could be continued after a short break. Soon I found out that the problem was the size of the PowerPoint presentation. The PowerPoint presentations had almost 40 slides of uncompressed bitmap images. (You can immediately identify these images by their extension .bmp or, in some cases, .tif). The uncompressed images caused the size of the presentation to explode. You can avoid this problem by using compressed images (e.g. .jpg) when you create your presentation. However, if it is too late for that because you are already in the middle of your live presentation in front of your audience you can apply a "quick & dirty" solution that can help you to present the material at least fluently and without hiccups. The solution is saving the slides that contain images in .jpg format and than re-inserting them back into the presentation. a) Open PowerPoint and the presentation that you need to modify (in my case: "mexico.ppt"). b) Save the presentation under different name (in my case: "mexico_modified.ppt"). This allows you to modify a copy of your presentation (i.e. "mexico_modified.ppt") while keeping the original ("mexico.ppt") safe. c) Go to "File >> Save As…". From the list box called "Save as type:" choose "JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg)" and save your presentation in a folder that you can easily find again. This folder will contain all your slides in a compressed .jpg format. The slides will be labeled Slide1.jpg, Slide2.jpg etc. e) Open the copy of your original presentation again ("mexico_modified.ppt") and delete the slides that contain uncompressed images (in my case those were the slides 3 to 38). You can quickly do this when you select the slide sorter view. Select all the slides you want to delete by clicking on them while holding the Shift key. Then delete them. f) Now create a new blank slide in your presentation ("mexico_modified.ppt") in the place where you want to insert the .jpg version of the slides you have just deleted. g) Go to "Insert >> Picture >> From File…" Select the folder in which your slides are saved in .jpg format and choose the first that needs to be inserted. (You need to remember which are the slides that originally contained the uncompressed images) In my case, it is the Slide3.jpg that I will place in the newly created slide. Now create another slide and insert the next .jpg image (Slide4.jpg) and so in. Following this procedure you will be able to size-down your presentation relatively fast. My presentation went from 70MB ("mexico.ppt") to a more acceptable 4MB ("mexico_modified.ppt"). Alternatively, you could save your presentation as an HTML file ("File >> Save As HTML…") to obtain a similar effect. The problem with saving in HTML format is that you loose transitions and pseudo animations. Another problem is that you will not be able to present in Full Screen mode - your slides will be probably smaller than the Screen space. I do not recommend these methods for everyday use since there are better ways to keep down the size of a presentation while it is created. The presented methods should be applied only in case you need to fix your file quickly for the presentation. --------------------------------------------------------------- 3) How To Achieve A Seamless Transition Between Two Different PowerPoint Slide Shows If you have to talk about different topics in your presentation, you might end up with more then one PowerPoint presentation to be shown in an sequential order. A common situation in training courses is that you need to combine an older PowerPoint presentation with one you have just created in order to deliver up- to-date information. The two PowerPoint presentations / slide shows need to be shown without interruption. They have to be linked in some fashion so that they smoothly follow each other. In fact the two presentations can be connected with a so-called hyperlink. The result is similar to web browsing - you can click and "go" to the next presentation. To link two presentations you have to follow the steps outlined below: a) Open PowerPoint with the presentation you want to show first. b) The last slide of your presentation should be a black slide. If there is none insert a new slide by clicking on the New Slide button (you can also go to "Insert >> New Slide" or press Ctrl+M on your keyboard) and create a rectangle that covers the whole slide by clicking on the rectangle tool from the Drawing Toolbar (you will find it at the bottom of the screen). Fill the rectangle with black color using the paint bucket tool on the same toolbar. You can recognize this tool by its picture - a bucket of paint. c) Click with your RIGHT mouse button (right-click) on the drawn rectangle. From the pop-up list choose "Action Settings". Action settings window will show up. d) Go to the "Mouse click" tab and check the radio button "Hyperlink to:". e) Click on the option "Other PowerPoint presentation…" - a window will open showing the files and folders of your disk. Find the folder that contains the second presentation, select it and click "OK". f) In case the second presentation has more than one slide (and probably it does), you will have to choose from the pop-up window the slide you want to link to. Usually you link to the first slide. g) The last step is testing: Open the first presentation in Slide Show View and move from slide to slide using your mouse (click moves to the next slide). The transition from one presentation to another should be unnoticeable for the viewers. --------------------------------------------------------------- 4) How To Create A New Master Slide And Apply It To Your Existing PowerPoint Presentation Often you will find yourself in front of a presentation of which you want to change the look. This can be easily achieved by simply going to "View >> Master >> Slide Master" and changing the look of the Master slide. Since this slide is actually a template for all others, all of the changes done in it will affect the rest of the slides in the presentation. Let me remind you that a presentation should always be created in three main steps: 1) Writing the outline, 2) Applying the formatting and overall design of the presentation in Master Slide. 3) Making individual changes on slides (or making them different from the overall design) Problems arise when you skip the first two steps: When you change the look of the Master Slide the look of the other presentation slides will not change. The reason is that PowerPoint will "presume" that you don't want to follow a Master Slide, if you skip the first two steps of the creation process (Outline > Master Slide) and go directly to edit your presentation in Slide View. These are the steps you have to follow to fix such presentation: a) Open PowerPoint with the presentation you want to fix. b) Go to the Master Slide ("View >> Master >> Slide Master") and change its look in the way you want. c) Go to the Slide Sorter View and select one slide. d) Now Click on "Slide Layout" button (you can also find this option in "Format >> Slide Layout") and click on the "Reapply" button. That is it! This is all you need to do when you want to (re)apply your new Master Slide design to slides that were originally created without a Master Slide. Repeat the step c) and d) for every slide in your presentation and you presentation will get the new "look" that you wanted. (Alternatively, you can select all slides to which you want to re-apply a design at once by clicking on them while pressing the Shift key. --------------------------------------------------------------- 5) SOHO Live Presentation and Web Conferencing Technology: Voxwire Global Meeting Rooms http://www.voxwire.com/ Online service / Server software (Win) by Luigi Canali De Rossi For professionals and small companies needing to meet and exchange live online a growing number of interesting technologies has recently become available. Most of these allow for basic voice conferencing over Internet phone lines (with varying degree of quality) and offer a text chat facility. Depending on the sophistication of the tool, some add to this web touring (navigating together across different web pages), application sharing, showing your PowerPoint presentation live to other participants, live markup and annotation tools, polling, video conferencing and more. Voxwire, is one of the 15 SOHO web conferencing providers that I have recently selected to be part of a major report covering all of these live presentation tools. The report, which includes more than 250-pages and over 100 color screenshots, will be available on March 1st from Robin Good's web site at http://www.masternewmedia.org. (You can find out more about this report at the end of this newsletter. Please see also: http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/webconferencing/index.htm Voxwire is a company that provides end user and reseller access to one of the most interesting web conferencing technologies around. Launched on January 21 2003, Voxwire Global Meeting Rooms provide access to the same technology powering VCOM Central, Orbitalk, Roomtalk.net and partly also Webconference.com. (Please note that Voxwire is indeed the very supplier of this technology to the Orbitalk service.) Voxwire is actively involved in deploying "private-label" installations of this technology, where a company can obtain either online meeting rooms directly from them, or obtain their own server license through which they can then resell the service to others (just like Orbitalk does). The technology, features and facilities available through Voxwire are exactly the same ones accessible through a monthly account with any one of the above listed services. The key benefit of this technology, developed by Simple Software (http://www.howudodat.com/), is the excellent quality of the voice conferencing module which allows dial-up users across great distances to easily voice-communicate with no hindrance. This core voice conferencing technology, which leverages an audio compression coded that requires less than 20 Kbps of bandwidth (!), is well complemented by a text chat facility, a web touring module, file broadcasting and basic moderator features. Use and access are extremely easy and simplified. Performance is in most cases excellent. On the weak side only some points. The interface is optimised for 800*600 and it does not well adapt to higher resolutions. The interface panels are modular and resizable, but by adjusting them unpredictable display errors occur and one needs to reset the layout as by default. Voxwire has a non-exclusive strategic relationship with Simple Software as a marketing and distribution partner. Screenshots of the Voxwire interface are accessible at: http://www.voxwire.com/products/screenshots.html A well prepared Voxwire MeetingRoom Illustrated User's Guide is freely accessible at: http://www.voxwire.com/rooms/gsFrameset.html A searchable FAQ area is available at: http://www.voxwire.com/cgi-bin/faq/faq_builder.cgi A demo room, where you can test the voice quality of this technology is accessible at: http://www.voxwire.com/account/demologin.php?r=00035960&a=guest Please note that you can invite a friend or a colleague to the above URL and can fully test the voice conferencing quality of this tool. (To talk hold down the left Ctrl key). Cost Hosted service: The basic 10-seat Voxwire™ MeetingRoom is USD $ 29.95/month with a one-time $15 setup fee. Larger capacity licenses can be purchased in blocks of 10 additional seats for $15 per month. Server licenses: Server Costs + Programming and Installation Fees $5,000 per server Quantity of Seats per Server Cost per month 100 seats minimum $5/seat 101 to 1,000 seats $4/seat 1,001 to 10,000 seats $3/seat 10,001 to 50,000 seats For inquiries relating to the private label installations or server licenses, please see: http://www.voxwire.com/products/server.html No official physical address and/or telephone/fax number is provided for this company but you contact directly: Dennis R Gerik - Chief Operation Officer Phone: 817-656-3998 Fax: 817-656-4382 dennis@voxwire.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Along with Voxwire I have reviewed 17 other cost-effective Web conferencing tools which I have included in my new report available online: Robin Good's Official Guide to SOHO Web Conferencing and Live Presentation Tools Find out more about it at: http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/webconferencing/ --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- 6) How To Prepare Students For E-Learning Courses http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/Preparingstudents.htm [***] = must have Online Article FREE by Jennifer Cowley, Sharon Chanley, Stephen Downes, Lisa Holstrom, Dawn Ressel, George Siemens, Mitchell Weisburgh This is an excellent reference generated after four weeks of online discussion by a group of seven e-learning insiders and academic experts in the area of online learning. Among them is Stephen Downes who is a well-known Canadian researcher who publishes a very rich and interesting daily news blog at: http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm The report includes sections on role of the learner and the instructor, as well as interesting and valuable recommendations relating to the "Role of Learning Styles", "The profile of the ideal online student", and a list of important tasks to be carried out before an online course is started. One of the key points reiterated and clarified in this report is the need to understand that taking a class online has nothing to do with taking a traditional classroom-based course. "Online, students do not receive information in lecture format. Information is acquired through exploration...". Find other valuable resources referenced in this article at: Matters of Style http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/ felder/public/Papers/LS-Prism.htm Preparing to teach the Web http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/ articles/prepare.html Recommended reading. --------------------------------------------------------------- 7) Blended Learning Models in Practice Blended Learning Models by Purinima Valiathan http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/aug2002/valiathan.html Blended Learning Models in Practice [*]= worth knowing Online Article FREE This article explains you in simple words what is meant by "Blended Learning" and introduces the following three blended learning models to you: 1) skill-driven learning, which combines self-paced learning with instructor or facilitator support to develop specific knowledge and skills (see also MasterMind Review "How to prepare Students for E-Learning Courses") 2) attitude-driven learning, which mixes various events and delivery media to develop specific behaviours 3) competency-driven learning, which blends performance support tools with knowledge management resources and mentoring to develop workplace competencies. You won't take any risk reading this article since it provides you with valuable information in just a few minutes time. It might serve you as basic heuristic when you want to plan your own training course. Tables make it easy for you to identify which model/ mix of models fits with your specific course objectives and which training delivery methods are appropriate. Moreover, you can quickly get an idea of online and traditional communication and working techniques that help to ensure efficient learning in different phases of a course. Additional value could be added to the article by providing more cross-links, for example to other articles where specific training delivery methods are explained. ASK-MASTERVIEW: ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS **** --------------------------------------------------------------- 8) How to Add Security To PowerPoint Presentations Published/Posted On The Web QUESTION: I've never worked with powerpoint before and need to display some presentations on the web but only if i can ensure that no one can copy/save it or print it.' Is there any possible way that I can secure it from this? ANSWER: Unfortunately, you cannot achieve the level of security you are looking for. There are many ways around securing content, but people can always "grab" what they see or hear on their computers with many free tools. You can protect your content from being copied/pasted, saved or printed by using the Acrobat PDF file format or by using certain online live presentation tools. But in all cases people who want to do so, can take pictures of the "screens" you show and then retype the text captured on them. --------------------------------------------------------------- 9) Erratic Pointer In PowerPoint Presentations QUESTION: The timing of the appearance of the pointer (arrow) appears erratic in my PP presentations, on some slides it is hidden, on others it appears after some delay, even when the mouse has been moved rapidly. The pointer appears immediately if I use the 'Control & A' keys or the pointer 'options' commands on the menu displayed with the right mouse button. Can I reset the default pointer to always display (as an arrow) during a presentation, or write in a command when authoring or opening the program to force this default? ANSWER: From your description it would seem that your PC has some other application running in the background which is somehow handicapping the performance of your pointer display. To check if this is the case simply make sure you are not running any apps in the background and turn also off as many of the little programs you have running in your system try at the bottom right of your screen (simply right-click those icons and "Exit" or "Turn off" the ones that allows so. They will be automatically restarted the next time you restart your PC). Unfortunately there is no "official" way to do what you kindly ask. You can leverage the following shortcuts or maintain the correct approach you have already adopted: Change the pointer to a pen CTRL+P Change the pen to a pointer CTRL+A Hide the pointer and button temporarily CTRL+H Hide the pointer and button always CTRL+L You could possibly automate this by way of creating a little program that does it for you but it looks indeed not worth your while. On the other hand the mouse cursor appears always on standard PCs with PowerPoint anytime you start moving your mouse, so there is effectively no need for such a function. You may also want to check for an updated driver of your graphics card display adapter. --------------------------------------------------------------- 10) How To Save A PowerPoint Presentation For Publishing On Your Intranet QUESTION: We have created a PPT presentation with some hyperlinks inside the presentation and we would like to make this presentation become a set of web pages to be published on our Intranet. How should we approach this? In which format shall we save the presentation? Is .pps the right format? ANSWER: The the PowerPoint presentation needs to be saved as HTML with the Web Publishing Wizard available within PowerPoint. To make sure all users can view and access it each slide must be saved as a JPG or GIF depending on the type of content present. Saving in .PPT or .PPS format it does not make any difference in terms of compatibility and accessibility on the Intranet. The two files as such, when completed, could only be placed as "downloadable" files for the users to have access to. If the content is to be properly accessed and used online (Intranet) the PowerPoint pages must be simply used as a prototype reference design for an HTML graphic designer to execute and convert is standard HTML coding for a Web page. --------------------------------------------------------------- 11) How To Avoid A Black Border Around PowerPoint Presentations And How To Display PPT Presentations In Full-Screen Mode in Internet Explorer QUESTION: I would like to be able to run a PowerPoint file through my Internet Explorer, which I can do easily, but an undesired black border is all around my presentation how can I avoid it and how can I make the presentation run in full screen (F11 doesn't seem to work under these conditions)? ANSWER: To eliminate the black border and to run the presentation in Full Screen mode go to the View menu of Microsoft Internet Explorer and select "Full screen". That will solve your problem. --------------------------------------------------------------- 12) *Robin Good's Official Guide to: SOHO Web Conferencing and Live Presentation Tools* Robin Good's Official Guide to SOHO Web Conferencing and Live Presentation Tools is officially available since Saturday, March 1st. In this guide you can find the fruit of 6 months of very hard research and testing which lead to the identification, selection and testing of the best 15+3 (fifteen) SOHO Web conferencing and live presentation tools that available today in the market. These are the charactersitics defining this category of tools: a) Are not sold according to a per seat/per minute price model. b) Must be very cost-effective allowing any individual to have access to them. The tools selected either require a one time license fee or a flat-fee monthly cost ranging between $ 12 and $ 200 for unlimited use. c) allow you to start collaborating, co-surfing, chatting and voice collaborating NOW, without requiring any software installation on your server. d) are tailored to the wants and needs of individuals, professionals, interest groups, families, small teams and dispersed groups. e) integrate (where relevant)voice over IP technology in place of offering the use of traditional telephone-based voice communication. f) are offered by small and independent providers. Robin Good's Official Guide to SOHO Web Conferencing and Live Presentation Tools provides individuals, small companies, teams, non-profit groups and organizations with up-to-date insider information on cost-effective, affordable tools to conduct online meetings, live presentations, and distance training classes. The report includes detailed reviews of 18 Web conferencing and live presentation tools that have been extensively tested during a six-month research period. 15 of these 18 reviews are dedicated to SOHO systems, cost-effective and affordable solutions for Small Office – Home Office use. Researched, written and prepared over a course of 6 months, this report brings into focus a new emerging market niche, populated by professionals and small companies wanting to communicate, train and collaborate online without having to incur the expenses and headaches of enterprise Web conferencing systems like WebEx, Placeware or Centra. Report Fact Sheet: * 15+3 Reviews of Conferencing Tools * 14 Comprehensive Comparison Tables * 2003 International Vendor Directory * 500+ pages * 650+ color screenshots * 400+ links to Web pages Cost: * Individual review USD $ 12.95 * Two reviews USD $ 19.95 * Three reviews USD $ 25.95 * An early bird discount of the Full Guide is available until March 17th (-30%): USD $ 69.30 * Full Guide price is USD $ 99 People that buy are entitled to obtain the following three additional bonuses at no extra-cost: * 5 distribution licenses * one Robin Good's PowerPoint XP Manual * one personal one-on-one online consulting session Robin Good's Official Guide to Web Conferencing and Live Presentations Tools can be purchased online at: http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/webconferencing/ Freely available to the public is also Robin Good's Access Kit to FREE Conferencing Try-Outs providing immediate access to over 174 days of free Web conferencing with the same tools tested in the Official Guide. The FREE Access Kit can be downloaded immediately at: http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/webconferencing/trial.htm Reserve today your Offial Guide to the most effective live presentation tools at 30% discount (USD $ 69.30) Hurry up this offer is valid only until Monday March 17th. --------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ In the last 2 issues you have looked at: Issue 12 - July 2002 "Ten Good Reasons For Upgrading To PowerPoint 2002 (XP)" 1) Ten Good Reasons For Upgrading To PowerPoint 2002-XP 2) Legibility: Rules To Determine Best Font Size 3) How To Modify A PowerPoint .PPS File 4) Questions From The Readers And Answers Issue 13 - September 2002 1) Advanced Options In PowerPoint 2) AutoCorrect 3) Black And White Preview: What Is It For? 4) Handout Master, Notes Pages And Handout... 5) Header And Footer 6) What Is Saved In A Template? 7) Talk Live And Deliver Online Presentations On The Web 8) Choosing The Right Portable Projector For Your Needs 9) Questions And Answers From The Readers --------------------------------------------------------------- Send your presentation questions to: ask-masterview@yahoogroups.com --------------------------------------------------------------- MasterView is a free monthly newsletter focusing on designing and managing effective PowerPoint presentations for international audiences. It is directed to communicators, managers, trainers, presenters and lecturers. It provides selected solutions, how-to techniques and resources on effective presentation-making, information design, presentation technology, and delivery approaches. MasterView is an also an open discussion forum for many of you having specific questions about making presentations. These can be addressed to: ask-masterview@yahoogroups.com We specialize in empowering international organizations, grow and prosper online through the effective use of new media and ICT (Information & Communication Technologies). Founded in 1988, IKONOS New Media is an electronic publishing and distance learning company serving education, research and development organizations. 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