Interviews
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Last Updated: March 5th 2009
11/07/2009 11:47 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Effective Animation: Conversation with Glen Millar
Glen Millar is a MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Microsoft PowerPoint. Based near Brisbane, Australia, Glen is a regular on the Microsoft support newsgroups, and a featured speaker at PowerPoint Live. In this conversation, Glen talks about effective animation principles, and about animation builds.
10/28/2009 10:37 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Shameless Self Promotion: Conversation with Peggy Duncan
Peggy Duncan is an international conference presenter, personal productivity expert, consultant, and author. She’s also the founder of The Digital Breakthroughs Institute, an Atlanta, Georgia (USA) training center whose mission is to improve technology and productivity skills of small business owners and professionals. Media appearances include CNN, Today, O-The Oprah Magazine, Smart Money, Fortune Small Business, Black Enterprise, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. In this discussion, Peggy discusses her Shameless Self Promotion concept, and how it has a PowerPoint angle.
10/27/2009 01:39 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Live 2009: Conversation with Rick Altman
Rick Altman is a presentation consultant based out of Pleasanton, CA. Rick is well known as the host of the annual PowerPoint Live User Conference and has a strong sense of the needs of the presentation community. In this conversation, Rick discussed the recently-completed conference that was held in Atlanta, October 2009 and the big news he made for 2010.
10/20/2009 04:16 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: FILEminimizer Pictures 2.0: Conversation with Nate Anderson
Nate Anderson is Senior Product Manager at balesio AG, a leading provider of file optimization and compression solutions. He is a software industry veteran and was part of the core development team of the company’s new FILEminimizer Pictures software. In this discussion, Nate discusses the new FILEminimizer Pictures 2.0 product.
10/05/2009 10:00 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: myBrainshark: The Joe Gustafson Interview
Joe Gustafson, CEO of Brainshark, Inc., founded the company in 1999 to help knowledge experts accelerate the flow of information to their audiences in a highly effective format. He is an experienced leader in the technology-based training industry, and prior to Brainshark, was the founder and CEO of Relational Courseware, Inc. (acquired by Gartner). Under Joe's leadership, Brainshark has become a leader in on-demand business communications and a successful Software-as-a-Service company, with more than 1,000 world-class customers, including a third of the Fortune 100. In this interview, Joe talks about the new myBrainshark site.
09/30/2009 02:06 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: The World's Best Presentation Contest 2009: Conversation with Rashmi Sinha
Rashmi Sinha is cofounder and CEO of SlideShare, the world's largest community for sharing presentations. She manages design and business development at SlideShare. Rashmi has a PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology from Brown University. She did a PostDoc at UC Berkeley in Human Computer Interaction. She blogs at www.rashmisinha.com about social software and running a startup.
09/30/2009 01:46 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Slide Executive 2.9: Conversation with Liber Rodriguez-Florez
Liber Rodriguez-Florez works as the Sales Director of Novatrox AB where he is responsible for the technical sales towards international customers. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but is resident in Sweden and holds a Master of Science in Engineering Physics. Prior to joining Novatrox AB, Liber worked several years at Relevant Traffic, a highly competitive Search Engine Marketing company, as Technical Director cooperating closely with the Relevant Traffic sales department. In this discussion, Liber discusses the new 2.9 version of Novatrox's Slide Executive product.
09/25/2009 04:09 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: CartoonStock: Conversation with Joel Mishon
Joel Mishon is the co-founder and co-director of CartoonStock Ltd. Prior to starting the business more than 10 years ago he was a freelance cartoonist in the UK producing work for national titles such as Private Eye, The Times, Readers Digest and The Spectator. He lives and works in Bath, UK. In this conversation, Joel discusses the CartoonStock web site.
09/01/2009 02:53 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Atrixware PowerPoint Quiz Maker: Conversation with Anthony Dunleavy
Anthony Dunleavy is CEO and founder of Atrixware LLC, a New Jersey company that develops e-learning software tools and learning management systems used all over the world since 1997. In this conversation, Anthony discusses their PowerPoint Flash Quiz Maker product.
08/29/2009 04:16 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Instant Effects Presenter v4: Conversation with Don Brittain
Don Brittain is CEO and a founder of Instant Effects, a California company that develops software to visually enhance presentations, communications, and collaboration. In this conversation, Don discusses the new v4 release of Instant Effects Presenter.
07/17/2009 05:18 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: authorSTREAM Desktop: Conversation with Umesh Sharma
Umesh Sharma is the Product Head at authorSTREAM, an online slide sharing site integrated with social media. Based in Chandigarh, India -- Umesh's profiles includes developing product roadmaps and managing media interactions. In this conversation, Umesh discusses the new authorSTREAM Desktop product.
05/16/2009 01:37 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Studio-Max: Conversation with Max Wijgergangs
Max Wijgergangs is the owner of a Dutch PowerPoint presentation company, Studio-Max. Max admits that he bought his first computer only in 2001, until which time he knew practically nothing about computers and PowerPoint. But he made up for that lost time soon by rapidly discovering all kind of possibilities working with Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe graphics software. This remained a big passion, but it was still a hobby until 4 years later, when he decided to quit his regular job. He launched Studio-Max with a goal to provide the Dutch market with professionally designed PowerPoint presentations. Since then, his energy focused on taking PowerPoint presentations to a higher level that has allowed Studio-Max to become a known name.
05/07/2009 03:43 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Convima Product Videos: Conversation with Jörg Hahn
Jörg Hahn aka Jay Green was Marketing Manager with a screen capturing software publisher prior to launching his new company Convima. Now he successfully combines video production with online marketing. Hahn holds an MBA, speaks 5 languages fluently, and is planning to open another subsidiary of Convima in Singapore in August 2009.
04/08/2009 03:14 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming: Conversation with Vivek Thangaswamy
Vivek Thangaswamy is a Software Solution developer and technical author based Chennai, India. He specializes in Microsoft enterprise application architectures and server-based product integrations. Vivek is a Microsoft MVP and he completed his Bachelor of technology degree in Information Technology and is currently pursuing a MBA in Finance. In this conversation, Vivek discusses his newly released book: VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming.
04/03/2009 11:30 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint for Court: Conversation with Herbert Rubinstein
Herbert Rubinstein has been involved in computer graphics for over 15 years as founder and CEO of ReGraphix, an award winning creative house for graphics and design. The past few years, Mr. Rubinstein has taken his presentation graphics experience and applied it to developing presentation techniques for the Courtroom. He has worked with the FBI, DEA, U.S. Customs Service and other government agencies, as well as many law firms across United States. In this conversation, Herb talks about his book and CD called PowerPoint For Court.
