Interviews
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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
02/03/2010 06:17 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: SlideShare Channels: 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 blogs at www.rashmisinha.com about social software and running a startup. In this conversation, Rashmi talks about the new Channels feature on SlideShare.
02/03/2010 12:34 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Presentation Tree: The Paul Tumey Interview
Paul Tumey is the founder and director of Presentation Tree, a 10-year old PowerPoint design company in Seattle, Washington. Paul's background includes notable achievements in graphic design, writing, public speaking, publicity, and marketing consulting. In this conversation, Paul shares some wisdom about creating PowerPoint presentations, and talks about Presentation Tree, how it was founded and the type of work they do.
01/21/2010 09:54 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: myBrainshark: Conversation with Andy Zimmerman
Andy Zimmerman, VP of Business Development, is responsible for developing and managing strategic partnerships and programs for Brainshark, the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution provider for on-demand presentations. Andy played an integral role in the launch of myBrainshark.com in September 2009 and continues to drive the initiative. Prior to Brainshark, Andy launched SaaS offerings for other software providers including Theikos, a leading Salesforce.com partner (acquired by Astadia) and e-billing provider Edocs (now part of Oracle). Andy earned his BA from Brown University and MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
01/12/2010 11:23 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint: Conversation with Ellen Finkelstein
Ellen Finkelstein is author of several PowerPoint, Flash, and AutoCAD books -- she has just launched a new campaign that she calls Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint. In this conversation, Ellen talks more about this campaign.
12/22/2009 01:44 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: think-cell: Conversation with Markus Hannebauer
Dr. Markus Hannebauer is think-cell’s Managing Director and in-charge of Marketing, Sales, Operations and Finance. Markus has studied computer science and business and holds a doctoral degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Technical University of Berlin. In this conversation, Markus talks about how think-cell chart can help PowerPoint users create effective charts.
12/08/2009 12:11 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: XL-Addin: Conversation with Aurelian Laic
Aurelian Laic has worked in software development and IT consultancy since 1997 creating many business and enterprise applications. He's been working as consultant for large companies listed in DAX and M-DAX and has been writing articles for various security magazines. He is now the owner of a software company that creates XL-Addin. In this conversation, Aurelian talks about how XL-Addin can help PowerPoint users.
12/04/2009 11:39 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Better Beginnings: The Carmen Taran Interview
Dr. Carmen Taran's presentations and workshops help business professionals to use communication and presentation skills to increase revenue, train or motivate others, and overall to stand out from too much sameness in the industry. A published author, Carmen is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at various conferences. In this interview, she talks about her book, shares ideas about creating better presentations, and then discusses imagination and sincerity.
11/25/2009 03:23 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Brainshark Insurance Network: Conversation with Irwin Hipsman
Irwin Hipsman is the director of customer community at Brainshark, a leader in on-demand presentations. He has more than 20 years of experience in the cable, conferencing and collaboration industries, and has worked with communications technologies including with multi-point video conferencing; audio, video and Web conferencing; and distance learning via satellite. In this conversation, Irwin talks about the Brainshark Insurance Network.
11/09/2009 08:25 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Photographs and Copyrights: Conversation with Rikk Flohr
A refugee from 18 years in corporate management and marketing, Rikk Flohr turned his attention inward to his 20-year love affair with photography. He founded his design firm Fleeting Glimpse Images in January 2006 and divides his days between various print and screen design projects, presentation consulting and, of course, photography. He lives in Apple Valley, Minnesota. In this conversation, Rikk talks about photographs and copyrights.
11/06/2009 10:17 PM
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.
10/27/2009 10:07 PM
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 01:09 AM
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 03:46 AM
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.
10/04/2009 09:30 PM
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 01:36 AM
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.
