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November 2005
- PowerPoint Presentations Microsoft Style
Microsoft did not invent PowerPoint. That honor goes to a small company called Forethought, which released PowerPoint for the Mac in 1987. The company was then purchased by Microsoft and the Windows version of PowerPoint eventually hit the market in 1990...and the world hasn't been the same since. Photo credit: Microsoft But did Microsoft invent the wordy, bulletpoint-ridden PowerPoint slide approach, the approach ridiculed by Edward Tufte and so many...
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Garr Reynolds -- November 30
- Access Your Home TV, DVD And TiVo From Anywhere You Have A Broadband Connection
Wouldn't it be great to be able to take your television with you anywhere you want around your home apartment? Photo credit: Philippe Ramakers How about seeing your favorite satellite TV match from your laptop while connected from an Internet cafè on the other side of the world? And since traditional TV stations do not yet broadcast live over your broadband Internet connection, the only solution left is to enable...
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Robin Good -- November 28
- Broadcast Image Collections To Any-Sized Audience: FilmLoop
FilmLoop is an innovative new presentation and image-sharing tool which allows instant and real-time sharing of digital photos. With FilmLoop you can create a loop of photos moving on your desktop by simply dragging pictures from your hard disk and dropping them on to the loop strip. You can also send a link of the updated loop to your friends through email and your friends can see the loop after...
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Robin Good -- November 25
- Presentation To DVD? Convert PowerPoint To Video First
You may want to convert your PowerPoint presentations to DVD to ensure the wide distribution of your presentation. A PowerPoint presentation stored on a DVD allows you to circulate your presentation among users who are not computer professionals or do not have computers to view the presentations. Photo credit: Chris Potter A DVD on the other hand can be played on a TV set using any DVD player or computer,...
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Minakshi Makthur -- November 22
- Experience Design: What Is It All About?
I have had much difficulty in the past making partners and customers understand my role as an Interaction Designer. While they could all fully grasp the roles of Information Designer, Communication Strategist, Design and Information Architect, they would feel uncomfortable in accepting the idea of a multi-disciplinary that could encompass these many different disciplines. But like a sailman at sea or a skilled DJ in the club, the art of...
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Robin Good -- November 18
- How To Create Your Own Custom Presentation Backgrounds
To create effective backgrounds in PowerPoint is one of the most challenging tasks for a presenter, as balancing visual impact, layout balance, properly matching colors while keeping great legibility is nothing that I would consider easy. You really have to had to spend some time studying visual design, or better yet Information Design, the discipline concerned with organizing and structuring information on a specific medium in order for the information...
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Robin Good and Ellen Finkelstein -- November 14
- PowerPoint Video Clips Don't Play On USB Key
QUESTION: "I have a PowerPoint presentation that has 3 video clips - all work fine on PC (hard disk) - I am distributing a USB key with the PowerPoint presentation and therefore, anticipated that some people may wish to run the presentation directly from the USB key - so I opened the presentation directly from the key and re-inserted the video clips (wmv and avi) from the key itself. Photo...
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Robin Good -- November 9
- Effective Presentation Delivery: What To Do In Front Of Your Audience?
Garr Reynolds has a few interesting content sections on his site, fully devoted to design, marketing, branding, effective communications skills and also covering Presentation Design and Delivery skills. Photo credit: Robin Good If you are PowerPoint novice, Garr's advice on how to handle the actual delivery of a presentation in front of an audience can be extremely helpful. Though you may be used to finding other presenters are not doing...
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Robin Good -- November 7
- PowerPoint Templates: Where To Find Them Once You Have Created One
You have created a nice PowerPoint template that you would like to use for your presentations. The problem is that when you open the Design Template task pane such template is not displayed, and you cannot even find it. What to do?...
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ikonos -- November 3
- Elearning Courseware With PowerPoint?
PowerPoint guru Ellen Finkelstein thinks PowerPoint is a good alternative to expensive courseware systems for many elearning designers. In this article dating back to March 2001 for InfoComm, Ellen Finkelstein lays out guidelines for making a successful Web-based course with PowerPoint. Photo credit: Matt Williams Do you think that the same considerations still apply today or do you see Powerpoint as inappropriate for this purpose?...
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Ellen Finkelstein -- November 1
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