A PowerPoint Blog

PowerPoint 2008 or Keynote 08

Geetesh — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:10:00 +0000

The folks at PC World recently created the same presentation in both PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac and Apple's Keynote 08 -- the results make interesting reading. There's no clear winner, but PowerPoint 2008 may have surpassed Keynote 08 in several areas.

Read more on the PC World site...

Categories: keynote, office_mac, powerpoint

The Christian Lund-S�rensen Interview

Geetesh — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:22:00 +0000

Christian Lund-S�rensen is co-owner and serves as Managing Director at SkabelonDesign. He is responsible for all international activities in the company and also focus on strategic development of the company. In this interview, Christian discusses the PresentationEngine product, and how it can make life easier for PowerPoint designers.

Read the interview here...

Categories: interviews, powerpoint

Medicine Presentations: Conversation with Echo Swinford

Geetesh — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:23:00 +0000

Echo Swinford (pictured to the right) is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional). When she's not working on new media, she is answering almost all the questions on the PowerPoint newsgroup. Echo is also the co-author of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit, published by Que. She also creates tons of presentations for the medical industry -- you can contact her for your presentation requirements through her site: Echo's Voice.

Geetesh: Tell us more about yourself, and the PowerPoint work you do in the medical industry.

Well, I started working for a medical education communications company in 1997. The owner was considering outsourcing her slide work, but she was worried about quality control. I knew my quality control was good in general, so I proposed that she let me create her slides. I didn�t tell her that I didn�t really know PowerPoint, so when she agreed, I had to learn it � and learn it fast!

I think my background in journalism and desktop publishing has really helped me with slide development, especially if you think of it as page layout on a large scale. I know that my proofreading skills are a definite plus, and the fact that I�m a bit of a math and puzzle geek sure hasn�t hurt!

Here I am, 11 years later, still developing presentations for a variety of industries. In the healthcare and medical education industry specifically, I do a lot of slide cleanup work, making presentations consistent and visible for conferences and meetings as well as developing collateral materials like scientific posters and syllabi. I also do a lot of promotional decks, speaker-led presentations, CME materials, and stand-alone enduring education modules that are distributed in a variety of ways. In addition, I can often be found with the production crew backstage at meetings, running speaker review or minding the presentation equipment. I love being self-employed, so I have the opportunity to do all of those things and more (like write PowerPoint books!).

Geetesh: What sets the presentations created for medicine to be different than conventional PowerPoints?

Echo: Honestly, I don�t know that there is such a thing as a �conventional� PowerPoint! PowerPoint is used in so many ways�.

One thing common to many medical presentations, though, is the sheer amount of data-driven slides. That means lots of charts, lots of tables, and lots of really text-heavy slides. I find that the extreme mix of chart slides is always a challenge in medical presentations � more so than with what I see in other industries. For example, it�s not unusual for a medical presenter to want four or six very small charts on a slide, with the goal of comparing various studies or compounds at different stages. Therefore, understanding what point the speaker wants to make becomes imperative to the design of the slide. If you can eliminate or at least downplay the extraneous information, you can emphasize what�s important � what the audience should remember.

So, maybe after this four-chart slide, there�s a column chart. Then a line chart, then a pie chart, then a column chart with a trend line. Some have error bars, some don�t. Some slides have two or three or four charts, others have just one. The challenge is making all of these different charts look like a cohesive set, especially when the data varies so greatly. It�s also important to understand what types of charts show what types of data the best so you can advise your clients appropriately.

When you toss in text-heavy slides, it�s important for the presentation developer to understand what�s important and what can be moved into speaker notes or downplayed on the slide. Some text slides work better as tables, especially if the text has lots of numbers and specific data.

And then, of course, there�s always the struggle with where to place references, P-values, and acronym definitions, and it�s not unusual to have a lot of all of those on an individual slide! That extreme amount of �fine print� just isn�t as much of an issue in the presentations I work on for other industries. And finding some of the symbols used in medical presentations can be an adventure, too.

Categories: interviews, medicine, powerpoint

Book Excerpts: Advanced PowerPoint 2007

Geetesh — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:07:00 +0000

This exclusive book extract from Advanced PowerPoint 2007 is presented here with permission from Pearson Education.

The book, authored by Wayne Kao and Jeff Huang will help an intermediate PowerPoint user improve their skills to an advanced level. The book goes into deep technical detail about the Office 2007 theme engine and how color schemes, effect schemes, and font schemes work; as well as the new PowerPoint XML file format, showing you how to edit PowerPoint files without using PowerPoint at all.

Read the excerpts here...

Categories: books, powerpoint_2007

Google Presentations Now Saves As PowerPoint

Geetesh — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:29:00 +0000

Google Presentations, a component of Google Docs now provides a much-requested feature that allows you to save your presentations as PowerPoint files. This will allow users to create presentations using Google's online office suite, and then share them in the omnipresent PowerPoint file format.

This is a great move on Google's part and will help users exchange information in various file formats easily. I like this option because I can now create the skeleton of the presentation using Google's great collaboration tools, and then save the outline to a PowerPoint file. Once this is saved as a PowerPoint file, I can then use PowerPoint's powerful features to create a great presentation.

Here's a link on Google's blog that explains more...

Categories: google, powerpoint

The Christina Deatherage Interview

Geetesh — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:28:00 +0000

Christina Deatherage serves as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ShowLogicTM for Catevo. Prior to joining The Catevo Group, she worked for IBM/Lenovo where she held various marketing, sales and strategy positions. In this interview, she discusses Catevo's new ShowLogic presentation platform.

Read the interview here...

Categories: interviews, powerpoint

Net: New PowerPoint Template Set From Ppted

Geetesh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:01:00 +0000

Ppted released a new PowerPoint template set -- this one is called Net. Not only do you get five great template designs, you also get the actual backgrounds so that you can use the same designs elsewhere. In this collection, you also get wide screen templates and backgrounds, and ten transparent PNGs you can use in your presentations -- at no extra cost.

Templates

Transparent PNGs

None of the templates at Ppted.com are free -- these are all designer templates. I just wanted to say that because lots of readers write in to say that their Indezine passwords don't let them download all the Ppted templates for free!

Categories: powerpoint, templates

Announcing Medicine PowerPoint

Geetesh — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:52:00 +0000

Users in the field of medicine are among the largest users of PowerPoint as a medium of information, instruction, and distribution. These users however tend to use PowerPoint in a very different manner than conventional PowerPoint users -- they also need a different set of resources that is geared towards their profession. After years of running Indezine.com, one of the largest PowerPoint sites I realized that there really isn't a PowerPoint resource available that has been created exclusively for end users in the medicine sector. And thus MedicinePPT.com was born.

If you work with PowerPoint in the medicine sector, please do share this resource with your colleagues -- and do send me your feedback so that we can make this site better.

Categories: medicine, powerpoint

Google Docs Plays with Offline Access

Geetesh — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:38:00 +0000

Google Docs is now providing offline access to editing files on an experimental basis -- as of now this only works with Docs, rather than Spreadsheets and Presentations, but it is definitely a start in a direction that may have far reaching results in the way we all use computing.

ChannelWeb provides opinions from many users about this new feature that works on Google Gears, an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality.

Even with Docs, this option has not been made available to all Google accounts, so if you don't see this functionality yet, you might have to wait a little while longer. I'm waiting to see how Google implements this technology into the Presentations component of Google Docs. And while many sites and bloggers seem to indicate that this might be a big blow to Microsoft Office, I think there's so much more to wait and watch before making a blanket statement of that magnitude.

Categories: google, microsoft_office

Speech-Over Studio 2.5: Conversation with Joel Harband

Geetesh — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:11:00 +0000

Joel Harband heads Tuval Software Industries, based in Israel. Their best known product is Speech-Over Studio, a PowerPoint add-in that enables PowerPoint slides to incorporate narrations using automated voices.

Geetesh: Tell us more about the new features and improvements in Speech-Over 2.5

Joel: Sure. First, I'd like to remind readers of Speech-Over's mission: To use narration and animation in PowerPoint to achieve the impact of a live presentation. This boosts the effectivity of PowerPoint-based e-learning, training and web presentations in a easy and economical way.

Speech-Over lets users build effective narrations from individual narration clips, combining general orientation topics, like introduction and summary, with specific content topics linked to screen objects. PowerPoint animations synchronized with the narration clips are added to illustrate and clarify the narration.

Speech-Over uses articulate text-to-speech (TTS) voices to add and maintain professional narration easily.

The new features in Speech-Over 2.5 are designed to raise efficiency when the software is used by teams of authors. The features include the ability to refresh all narration clips in the presentation after changes in preferences, including the slide notes generated in the notes pane, and an improved voice preview function in the narration clip editor that allows skipping sentences during the preview and stopping it in the middle.

Geetesh: Can you tell us more about the TTS voices, what they are, and how one can get more of them?

Joel: Text to speech (TTS) is the automated synthesis of speech from text. The heart of the system is the text-to-speech engine, a sophisticated piece of software that parses the text input, analyzes its grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and capitalization, and activates voice simulations to produce a vocal rendering of the text.

The data for individual voices are provided in separate files called "voices". The TTS engine can work with any of the voices interchangeably.

Advances in TTS technology have replaced the old robotic computer voices with new, amazingly realistic ones.

Synthesized from real voices, these remarkable TTS voices can read books aloud beautifully without a mistake, guided only by grammar, sentence structure and punctuation. People use them to learn and review while driving.

The exciting news is that these articulate TTS voices have been harnessed by Speech-Over to empower users to add professional narration in presentations easily.

Speech-Over, which has an embedded text-to-speech engine, accepts user narration text and launches TTS voices from within PowerPoint to record professional narrations from the text alone.

Change the narration text as often as you need and these tireless voices record new versions quickly and faithfully without complaint.

TTS voices are separate computer applications which, once installed, are recognized by Speech-Over. They are available in male and female gender, in all major languages, and in various regional dialects.

Basic quality Microsoft voices Mike and Mary are included free. For much better results, premium TTS voices are available from voice vendors such as AT&T and NeoSpeech at affordable prices. Speech-Over uses SAPI 5 standard TTS voices. (For info about premium voices, see here...).

For more info about text-to-speech, see here...

Categories: add-in, interviews, powerpoint

Online Presentations with Flypaper

Geetesh — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:41:00 +0000

Flypaper is a cool, new presentation creation program that lets you create Flash presentations that you can instantly upload to sites like YouTube, MySpace,a nd Facebook. In its present beta incarnation, it has some rough edges and any comparison with PowerPoint would be probably like comparing apples and oranges since Flypaper seems to provide a very different concept altogether.

Flypaper is a free application that runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista only (no Mac yet) -- it's a large download at 89 mb whereabouts, but it's fun to play with and may evolve into something very useful. The screenshot above shows the interface -- click on the screenshot to see a larger preview.

Flypaper does get into new terminology though: slide layouts/designs are called 'models'! Here's a quick one slide pres that I created in Flypaper, and then uploaded to Youtube.

Categories: online_presentations, youtube

Mix and Mash Online Video Clips with Omnisio

Geetesh — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:59:00 +0000

Omnisio, a new startup allows you to mix and mash videos from several online video sites like YouTube, Google, and Blip.tv to create new videos. You can choose start and end points to trim the existing video clips, combine them in a sequence you want, and create a new online video clip that you can share.

These shared clips are entirely embeddable -- and you can have comments that actually hover over the video on these shared clips (see screenshot above). Many users find this distracting, so it's nice that you can turn them off.

More importantly Omnisio is about to introduce new features soon that will allow you to synchronize PowerPoint slides with video -- this will take Omnisio to the professional league.

Membership is free and very quick -- and you don't even need to be a member to view some sample clips. The clips are great -- and can allow you to get hours of fun.

Learn more at the Omnisio site...

Categories: movies, online_presentations, powerpoint, , youtube

The Screencaster: Lessons to the aspiring screencaster from Strunk & White

Geetesh — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:52:00 +0000

This guest post is by Daniel Park, author of Camtasia Studio: The Definitive Guide. Daniel has just launched a new screencasting newsletter, and this is an excerpt from the first issue -- make sure you subscribe to The Screencaster...

The other day, I got a solid lesson in good screencasting from a most unexpected place.

Most Americans, at some point in their academic careers (could be high school, college, or in my case, both), have an English composition class foisted upon them by the local administration. This is done with the supposed motivation of churning out graduates who can express themselves succintly and coherently in written form. Persons armed with this knowlege will be able to master business reports, research studies, doctoral dissertations, you name it.

Or, at the very least, have the most eloquently written MacDonald's employment application on the block...

One text that's basically regarded as standard issue in these courses is The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White, and has been thus since its initial publication in 1959. I bought my first copy back in 1989, when the book was a mere pup at the tender age of 30. In its nearly 50 years on the shelves, this tiny grey paperback has prevented millions of grammatical foibles the world over, defusing everything from awkward sentence structure to the careless use of non-words like irregardless.

I recently pulled my dog-eared copy of the shelf in an attempt to decide the correctness between "None of us were there" and "None of us was there" (it's the latter, by the way), when I came across an essay at the back that I hadn't remembered. It was called "An Approach to Style," and moved away from the specific prescriptivist "grammar police" ruleset that comprised most of the book, and instead just offered up a list of basic guidelines to bear in mind when communicating with words.

I was astounded by how many of these suggestions were readily applicable to narrated visual media as well, despite the fact that it was written a good 45 years before Jon Udell ever coined the term "screencast." I wanted to share a few of these with you.

Place yourself in the background. "Write in a way that draws the reader's attention to the sense and substance of the writing, rather than the mood and temper of the author."

This is a particularly sticky one for marketing screencasters. When crafting a video advertisement or marketing spot, it's vitally important to focus on your audience. Their lives, their problems. With luck, you can be there to offer the solution. There are instances (such as this newsletter), where it's appropriate for the author to be more "present" within the content. But you can't ever lose sight of your users and the benefit to their lives that you're attempting to bring to the table. More on this next month.

Do not overwrite. And this goes hand-in-hand with two other basic tenets of theirs, Write in a way that comes naturally and Avoid fancy words. "Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating."

As you write your narration script, you must take care to avoid the kind of thick, jumbled wordiness that makes your video impossible to penetrate without a dictionary in hand. Most people won't bother, so don't use a 75-cent word when a 10-cent one will do. This goes doubly for industry terms and other technical jargon. Only use a technical term when no other more common replacement exists, and when you're certain that at least 95% of your audience will understand it. Take a second in your narration to clarify the term if you're not sure.

Do not explain too much. "It is seldom advisable to tell all."

Amen, brothers. Amateur screencasters often make the classic rookie mistake of explaining every field and button. Even a comprehensive tutorial should exist to show completion of a given task or set of tasks. Clarify only those features and aspects of the application that are directly involved in getting the user from point A to point B. In screencasting, the hackneyed slang phrase "Too much information!" really does apply, so don't inundate your audience with a lot of extraneous info.

Revise and rewrite. "Revising is part of writing. Few writers are so expert that they can produce what they are after on the first try."

Revision is a necessity in the screencast production process. If possible, try to segment your revision as much as possible. What does this mean? Well, take a quick look at my workflow, which generally goes something like this:

Write narration > Craft storyboard > Record footage > Edit silent cut > Record and clean up narration > Produce final output

You should be giving the decision-makers (clients, managers, etc.) access to your work at nearly every point in this process. If there's an unnecessary paragraph in your narration, it's a lot easier to correct early on, when it's just words on paper. If something's destined to get the ax, you're wasting valuable time by coming up with visuals, recording clips, and cutting it all together.

Don't overstate. "When you overstate, readers will be instantly on guard, and everything that has preceded your overstatement as well as everything that follows will be suspect in their minds because they have lost confidence in your judgment or your poise."

Overstatements are dangerous territory, particularly for marketing screencasts. Yes, you want to convey the benefit of your product or service, and yes, those benefits should be as compelling as possible. Just don't promise them the moon. Or, promise them the moon, provided you're ready to deliver on that promise and you can provide good testimonials and other proof that you're not just full of hot air.

Good stuff. The advice of these two men from nearly a half century ago is as relevant as ever to those of us who create content for a living.

Categories: books, delivery, opinion

Slide Executive 2.4: The Indezine Review

Geetesh — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:58:00 +0000

For organizations and individuals who have been creating PowerPoint presentations for years, these presentations represent a very significant pool of content that needs to be synergised for reuse and reference -- aiding in the creation of new slide content.

Cataloging your presentations to the slide level is therefore a very important aspect of slide management, and our review product does just that and more.

Read the full review...

Categories: add-in, powerpoint, slide_management

Poetry Slideshows in PowerPoint!

Geetesh — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:28:00 +0000

This is among the most interesting and original uses for PowerPoint that I have read about.

Jill White, who has finished 10 years of teaching with Memphis City Schools uses PowerPoint with first graders so that they can add their poetry to PowerPoint slides with a picture. This works great because it's the first time the children use PowerPoint -- so it's nice to start with simple stuff. These poetry slides then make great presentations to show at Open Houses, parent meetings, school meetings, and even district-wide meetings.

Read more on the Scholastic site...

Categories: case_studies, powerpoint

Telecommunications: New PowerPoint Template Set From Ppted

Geetesh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:50:00 +0000

Ppted released a new PowerPoint template set -- this one is called Telecommunications. Not only do you get five great template designs, you also get the actual backgrounds so that you can use the same designs elsewhere. In this collection, you also get wide screen templates and backgrounds, and ten transparent PNGs you can use in your presentations -- at no extra cost.

Templates

Transparent PNGs

Interview on Storybored

Geetesh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:05:00 +0000

Scott Schwertly of Ethos3 recently interviewed me in the first of his series on 7 Questions -- this interview can be found on his new Storybored blog...

Categories: interviews, powerpoint

Automating Microsoft PowerPoint 2008

Geetesh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:45:00 +0000

I ran into this excellent post by Cory Bohon on automating PowerPoint 2008 on the Mac using the Automator program built within the Mac OS X. This may prove a great starting point for automating PowerPoint on the Mac since this new version (PowerPoint 2008) no longer provides VBA programming support.

Read on The Unofficial Apple Weblog site...

Categories: templates, powerpoint

New Options on Scrapblog Site

Geetesh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:23:00 +0000

Scrapblog is an awesome site that lets you create online digital scrapbooks -- and it works so much like PowerPoint! They have added a slew of new improvements:

Photo Cropping: The new photo cropping options now allow you to crop to cookie cutter shapes like circles, rectangles, and stars. There's also a freehand scissors tool that lets you cut edges any way you want. And an eraser option lets you erase areas of photos as required!

Photo Editing: Scrapblog now provides one-click effects -- these effects include 12 new built-in effects like black and white, sepia, antique, matte, vignette, a comic book effect, and even the ability to flip your photo. There are also advanced options that allow you to adjust the contrast, saturation, tint, or other fine grained settings.

New Themes: Scrapblog now also provides new themes, stickers, backgrounds and frames.

Categories: online_presentations, powerpoint

Every Makeover is Different

Geetesh — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:07:00 +0000

Doing makeovers of slides is such a satisfying task � maybe that is because removing the ugly and replacing it with near perfection is a reward in itself. Over the years, I have understood that the approach required to do any actual makeover is never the same � in the same way as the fingerprints of two humans don�t match, the approaches required to do various makeovers are dissimilar.

Suggesting makeover approaches is a large part of my work � that�s why I find it amusing to hear new schools of thought in the presentation sphere that promise to be a solution to all slide problems. These beliefs range from the no-bullet approach for slides to the total denouncement of slideware. Then there are opinions about keeping things simple and clean � and of providing more visual content. And there�s another school of thought that looks at creating diagrams, charts, and other info-graphic content in a way that�s more effective as is the debate between linear and linked presentations. Each of these approaches is unique and very useful in their own way � and properly applied, each of them may make a difference. But in the same way that a physician will not prescribe a drug for common cold to a patient suffering from body pain, the makeover artist will first examine the slides and then suggest an approach that may use, discard, or combine these approaches.

Read more of this guest post I authored on the SlideShare blog...

Categories: online_presentations, powerpoint, slideshare

authorSTREAM now allows downloads of PowerPoint files, and sharing PowerPoints on YouTube and iPods

Geetesh — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:44:00 +0000

authorSTREAM, a site that lets you upload and share your PowerPoint presentations upped the ante today by offering a slew of new options:

Download original presentations: You can now download the original PowerPoint presentation (or other file) if the author of the content enables the relevant option (see figure below).

For your existing presentations uploaded to authorSTREAM, this option is turned off by default. You can however edit your presentation properties and check the option (see figure below).

Share on YouTube: You can also share your presentations on YouTube. This option is now available for presentations that include narration or rehearsed timings -- these presentations would automatically be available in a video format (MP4) that you can upload and share on YouTube.

Share on iPods: Again this option is only available for presentations that include narration or rehearsed timings.

Categories: online_presentations, powerpoint, youtube

Ric's Podcast: Why You, Too, Should Kiss Your Frog!

Geetesh — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:48:00 +0000

Ric Bretschneider's newest podcast is now live on the Presentationsroundtable site.

In this podcast, Ric interviews Echo Swinford and Geetesh Bajaj about their new book, Microsoft Office 2007 Complete Makeover Kit. The discussion is essentially an enthusiastic and candid conversation on the state of makeovers today -- and how this book evolved.

The authors also explain more about the content of the book, and how readers can benefit from the makeover samples.

Make sure you put up a comment on the podcast page!

Categories: books, powerpoint_2007

Ppted Solar System Updated with Extras

Geetesh — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:15:00 +0000

Ppted's Solar System collection has been updated with extras! Take a look here to see...

Not only do you get five great template designs, you also get the actual backgrounds so that you can use the same designs elsewhere. In this collection, you also get wide screen templates and backgrounds, and ten transparent PNGs you can use in your presentations -- at no extra cost.

Templates

Transparent PNGs

Office: mac 2008: What the reviewers are saying?

Geetesh — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:06:00 +0000

Over the last few days, there have been tons of reviews on Microsoft's new Office 2008 for the Mac. In this post, I'll look at two of these reviews, and link to them as well.

Glenn Fleishman has put up a strong verdict for Office:mac on the Seattle Times site. He finds that "Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X is prettier than its predecessors. Fortunately, the upgrade is more than skin deep.....Two of the biggest interface changes you'll find across Word, Excel and PowerPoint are a toolbar that is now part of a document rather than a separate floating item, and a host of separate features (and some new ones) that have been stuffed into a floating palette. These additions may seem minor, but better access can save serious users many minutes. I use both features perhaps thousands of times a day."

Read more on the Seattle Times site...

Elsa Wenzel of CNET Reviews compares Office 2008 for Mac with Office 2007 for Windows when she says: "Unlike Microsoft Office 2007, the interface changes don't look radically foreign next to the 2004 edition. That's good news for anyone who doesn't want to relearn the locations of common functions. The 2007 applications for Windows arrange functions within tabs, while the 2008 Mac software largely clusters functions within the same drop-down menus including File, Edit, and View. By and large, most of the changes focus on attempting to help users craft more attractive documents. For instance, Office for Mac features the same templates and Smart Art graphics as the Windows counterparts. These are premade templates with 3D and translucent designs"

Read more on the CNET site...

Categories: office_mac, powerpoint

A PowerPoint Blog

PowerPoint 2008 or Keynote 08

The Christian Lund-S�rensen Interview

Medicine Presentations: Conversation with Echo Swinford

Book Excerpts: Advanced PowerPoint 2007

Google Presentations Now Saves As PowerPoint

The Christina Deatherage Interview

Net: New PowerPoint Template Set From Ppted

Announcing Medicine PowerPoint

Google Docs Plays with Offline Access

Speech-Over Studio 2.5: Conversation with Joel Harband

Online Presentations with Flypaper

Mix and Mash Online Video Clips with Omnisio

The Screencaster: Lessons to the aspiring screencaster from Strunk & White

Slide Executive 2.4: The Indezine Review

Poetry Slideshows in PowerPoint!

More on SlideRocket

Telecommunications: New PowerPoint Template Set From Ppted

Interview on Storybored

Automating Microsoft PowerPoint 2008

New Options on Scrapblog Site

Every Makeover is Different

authorSTREAM now allows downloads of PowerPoint files, and sharing PowerPoints on YouTube and iPods

Ric's Podcast: Why You, Too, Should Kiss Your Frog!

Ppted Solar System Updated with Extras

Office: mac 2008: What the reviewers are saying?