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September 2004
- Add Relevance with Layers of Meaning
In order to keep a presentation short and to stay on message, many people eliminate any extraneous information. However, if you want to inspire and motivate people, you need to explain how your message relates to them, their organization, and even to the country, or the world. But how?...
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Robin Good -- September 30
- Custom effects for Flash and video titles
Wildform, creators of video, animation and presentation software, announced the release of the Custom FX Collection for Wildforms highly popular video titling and text animation software, Wild FX Pro and Wild FX. The Custom FX collection contains fully customizable versions of all the effects that come standard with the programs. Each Custom Effect contains between 5 and 35 variables, including a speed control option. More info at the Wildform site......
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Robin Good -- September 30
- Create Multi-Color Gradients
Gradients make effective simple backgrounds. Unfortunately, PowerPoint only allows two colors in a gradient and gives you little control over where the colors change. However, you can use an easy trick to make multi-color gradients and add control over where the colors change as well....
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Ellen Finkelstein -- September 29
- Opera pushes into PowerPoint territory
Opera, the alternative alternative browser, is moving further into PowerPoint territory with the launch of free new software for Web-based presentations. The company's existing presentation software, Opera Show, was first introduced in 2000 but this required hands-on HTML programming. The more basic Opera Show Generator, by contrast, is aimed at more inexperienced users, quickly turning out presentations. More at the PC Pro site (requires registration)......
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Robin Good -- September 29
- Professional Presenter Swiss-Army Knife: Edit For PowerPoint
If you invest a lot of time in PowerPoint and in the editing and creation of complex slide layouts, here is a tool that may simplify and automate much of your work. A swiss-army knife for the professional PowerPoint presenter, Edit is a suite of tools that simplifies, speeds-up or autmates PowerPoint tasks that would normally require multiple clicks, selections and wading through sequences of menus and dialog boxes. Edit...
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Robin Good -- September 29
- New PowerPoint Templates And Tutorials
Are you looking for nice PowerPoint templates? This is the right place for you: Awesome. It is a whole new website dedicated to PowerPoint pictures, images and graphics where you can find some new backgrounds for your presentations. Inside this website you can download templates and free samples among different categories: Industry Entertainment Blue 3 Technology 3 Graduation and careers The images can be animated or not and can be...
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Robin Good -- September 28
- Repurpose Presentations for a Kiosk or the Web
If you have a great presentation, you might want to re-use it at a convention or on your Web site. But the situation is very different when a viewer looks at a presentation without anyone to explain it. Here are some tips for making the conversion work....
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Ellen Finkelstein -- September 27
- How To Create Web Information Maps
A Well designed web site information map must visually convey the structural and functional information about a Web site. The creation of Web site information maps is one of the key activities of the effective information architect. In dissecting content, page types, user navigation paths and best user experience approaches the information maps create the key vehicle for communication between stakeholders while facilitating the easy visualization of the "big picture"....
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Jason Withrow - Boxes and Arrows -- September 26
- Presentations: Make sure to balance format and content
...I'm concerned that the format of these presentations can actually draw the viewer's attention away from their content. It's not that presenters are trying to fool anyone, they're just trying to present their project in the best possible light.....An extreme illustration of how format can overshadow content is found in the book Catch Me If You Can. It's a true story about a man named Frank Abagnale (Leonard DiCaprio played...
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Robin Good -- September 24
- New Easy-to-use Worship Presentation Software
Grass Roots Software, a leader in presentation and multimedia solutions for church communicators, announced a new version of SundayPlus, the company's affordable and easy-to-use worship presentation software. According to a news release the new version features broadcast quality text titling, digital photo retouching tools and unprecedented stability. More info on the Church Central site......
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Robin Good -- September 24
- Right Seat Software Releases Vox Proxy 3
Right Seat Software, Inc. announced the release of Vox Proxy(R) Version 3, bringing new versatility to the process of adding and viewing 3D-animated talking characters in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. The Vox Proxy collection of fun, effective characters, custom-designed for the PowerPoint platform, can now be viewed using the free PowerPoint 2003 Viewer, while media files can be played using Microsoft Windows Media Player 9. A new online help system has...
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Robin Good -- September 23
- Great Presentation Showcases Groove V3 Best Collaboration Features
A lovely friend pointed me today to a Groove presentation which I hadn't seen before. This excellent audio-visual streaming presentation showcases Groove version 3 new key features and it provides visual examples of how the new features and facilities can be used. Groove v3 is really an outstand......
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Robin Good Recommends -- September 22
- How To Convert Any Documents Into Flash Or PDF: FlashPaper!
FlashPaper is Macromedia solution to distributing and repurposing content with ease and cost-effectiveness. The $ 79 software tool, allows anyone to easily convert any printable document into either Web-ready Flash files or highly secure PDF documents. Flash and PDF are by themselves two of the mos......
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Robin Good Recommends -- September 20
- Hey, This Networking Thing Is Catching On
In the beginning, networked AV gear consisted only of networked projectors. And, rightly so, the application for doing this was questionable. Why would anyone want to network a projector and where's the value in the additional 15-20% up-charge for a network projector? And, interestingly enough, the application that most manufacturers "pushed' as a value to networking was the one that's still, three years later, not caught on -- pushing PowerPoint...
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Robin Good -- September 20
- WebEx plays big brother
A new feature in WebEx's latest Web conferencing service has reporters and PowerPoint victims of all stripe a little nervous. The service being announced Monday, WebEx Sales Center, includes an Attention Indicator feature that can notify conference presenters when a meeting attendee has opened another application over the presentation. The idea, according to Praful Shah of WebEx, is to "keep the prospect engaged throughout the sales call." More info on...
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Robin Good -- September 19
- Using Digital Video in PowerPoint
The days of endless bullet-point slides in PowerPoint are numbered—or they should be. Adding digital video to your PowerPoint presentation can help you produce a more instructive and compelling show. To do it right, though, you need to understand the issues. Jan Ozer explains more at the PC Magazine site......
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Robin Good -- September 19
- Recommended Background for Projected Presentations
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Edward Tufte -- September 18
- Camtasia Creates Movies From PowerPoint
In December 2002, Steven Brier of Practical Growth mailed me to ask for some live support for distribution of a PowerPoint media creation. The problem was delivery. Steven wanted to create CDs of this presentation that he could give away or sell. The PowerPoint Viewer available at that time was woefully inadequate to cope up with this challenge. Both Steven and me tried different approaches — using DHTML export, Flash...
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Robin Good -- September 17
- Common Fonts And Typefaces Across Browsers And Operating Systems
Browser News is an online resource devoted exclusively to provide information about Internet browsers and related issues: HTML, compatibility, page load times, standards, and more. Authored by Chuck Upsdell, a Web site designer and engineer himself, Browser News is not a new site and its value come......
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Robin Good Recommends -- September 17
- Creating Soft Edges
You can create AutoShapes that appear to have soft edges, for a sophiticated "Photoshop" look, using transparency....
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Robin Good -- September 15
- Macromedia looks to extend Web conferencing
Macromedia Inc. is looking to bring Web conferencing to the masses by making its Breeze Live hosted service available on a pay-as-you go basis instead of requiring a subscription. Users beginning on Tuesday will be able to access the Pay-Per-Use Breeze Live service for US$0.32 per minute per participant and use a credit card for payments, according to Macromedia. The company hopes to extend the application to small and midsize...
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Robin Good -- September 15
- Create Hyperlinks in a Timed Presentation
The problem: Hyperlinks going backwards in an automatically-timed presentation stop the presentation. Read the solution....
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Robin Good -- September 15
- Playing Music Continuously in a Web-Based Presentation
To show a presentation on the Web with looping music, you need to edit the HTML code. It's easy and the results are very effective....
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Robin Good -- September 15
- PowerPoint Six-Pack: Fundamentals To Effective Presentation Design And Delivery
Six great presentation guidelines for any communication officer who needs to deliver information that is useful, easy-to-understand and memorable. One: Figure out what the audience needs to know, not what you want to say. Two: Design from summary to detail Three: Hide the details Four: Create FA......
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Kathy Jacobs - Lockergnome IT Professionals -- September 15
- Conduits set to upgrade Pocket Slides to version 2
Pocket Slides has been a long favourite in the Pocket PC world as a PowerPoint solution for Pocket PCs. In the past versions we have seen them enhance their synchronization features to enable 2-way synching between Pocket PC and PC and the ability to support transitions in their presentations. Conduits has just announced that Pocket Slides has just entered the beta mode for version 2. More info at the PPCW.Net...
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Robin Good -- September 15
- Going to the Previous Slide
If you have added animation (builds) to your text, you may have noticed that when you're showing your presentation and want to go to the previous slide, right-clicking and choosing Previous only brings you to the previous animation step. Here's how to really go to the previous slide....
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Robin Good -- September 15
- How To Do Away With Presentation Bullet Points
Bullet points have their place in presentations. There is some information that should be presented linearly. That place is not on every slide, nor is it for all information....
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Robin Good -- September 15
- Create Multi-Color Gradients
Gradients make effective simple backgrounds. Unfortunately, PowerPoint only allows two colors in a gradient and gives you little control over where the colors change. However, you can use an easy trick to make multi-color gradients and add control over where the colors change as well....
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Robin Good -- September 15
- Add Relevance with Layers of Meaning
In order to keep a presentation short and to stay on message, many people eliminate any extraneous information. However, if you want to inspire and motivate people, you need to explain how your message relates to them, their organization, and even to the country, or the world. But how?...
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Robin Good -- September 15
- Book Extract: PowerPoint for Educators
This book extract from PowerPoint for Educators is an Indezine exclusive with permission from David Marcovitz / Libraries Unlimited. This book provides instruction for using Visual Basic Applications to create interactive educational materials in PowerPoint. It's probably the most extensive book on PowerPoint VBA that you can find anywhere. Read the excerpts here......
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Robin Good -- September 14
- Add Depth to Your Presentations
I've been thinking lately about how to add depth to a presentation and the concept of layers or levels. Many people eliminate all extraneous information from a presentation, whether to save time or to keep a narrow focus. However, you need to provide context to your message and explain how your points relate to your audience, their organization, or even to the country, and the world. People also want access...
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Ellen Finkelstein -- September 3
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