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06/17/2009 12:39 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Contests Galore

At last count, I found that there were at least 3 PowerPoint presentation contests happening online.

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06/04/2009 10:31 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: SlideBoom Supports Open Document Format

SlideBoom, a leading slide sharing platform announced support for Open Document Presentation (ODP) files. The ODP file format is increasingly being used in free office suites like OpenOffice, NeoOffice or IBM Lotus Symphony and proprietary software packages like Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice. SlideBoom continues support for PowerPoint and some other file formats.

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05/16/2009 03:23 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: SlideBoom World Presentation Contest

SlideBoom, a presentation sharing site from the makers of iSpring announced the SlideBoom World Presentation Contest. This contest, open to everyone requires participants to submit any PowerPoint presentation (or another compatible file format) on the SlideBoom site. All participants need to be members of the site, and basic membership is free.

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05/09/2009 04:35 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: Enriching Online Marketing with PowerPoint Presentations

You can easily boost your business and your SEO / SEM efforts with the help of an old friend: PowerPoint. All you need to do is pick a topic that you want to relate your business to, prepare a presentation on that topic and then publish it on presentation plattforms like SlideShare, Slide.com, etc. You can then bookmark your online content and enrich it with keywords and descriptions to further promote your content and boost your SEO / SEM efforts.

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05/08/2009 02:57 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: Adobe eLearning Suite: The Indezine Review

Adobe is a name well known to anyone who works with graphics and media content -- and they bundle several of their award winning programs in suites that contain a set of applications geared towards a specific use. Adobe already has such suites for the Creative and Production categories -- and their newest Suite offering is squarely aimed for the burgeoning eLearning market. The main products in the Adobe eLearning Suite are Captivate, Acrobat, and Presenter. These work directly with Microsoft PowerPoint whereas other products in the Adobe eLearning Suite such as Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, etc aid in making the Suite sweeter and more integrated.

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05/05/2009 12:54 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: Adobe Presenter 7: The Indezine Review

Adobe Presenter 7 is a PowerPoint add-in that allows you to create high-impact Adobe Flash presentations and eLearning courses from PowerPoint. In addition, you can also create high fidelity PDFs using this add-in. You can add narration, edit audio, add multimedia capture video, animations, interactivity, quizzes, surveys, and software simulations to eLearning courses created using Adobe Presenter -- all inside PowerPoint. Output can be customized as presentations published to Flash, PDF or Adobe Connect Server.

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04/29/2009 11:36 AM

A PowerPoint Blog: SlideShare Support Document Formats

SlideShare, an online presentation sharing site now ups the ante by supporting more file formats including Microsoft Office Word: DOC, DOCX, Microsoft Office Word: RTF, Microsoft Office Excel: XLS, OpenOffice: ODT, ODS, Apple iWork Pages.

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04/15/2009 10:51 AM

A PowerPoint Blog: authorSTREAM Launches Premium Services

authorSTREAM, a leading slide sharing site launched their Premium services that offers many options over and above the free services. The free services are still available, and are unnchanged with the launch of the new Premium services.

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04/02/2009 02:35 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: authorSTREAM: Conversation with Dinesh Awasthi

Dinesh Awasthi is Product Manager for authorSTREAM.com at authorGEN (authorSTREAM's parent company). In addition to developing the strategic product roadmap and implementation of various features on authorSTREAM, he works with the development team and keeps an eye on user feedback to formulate new releases. Dinesh holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications, and certifications in Quality Management and Software Testing.

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02/07/2009 04:59 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: Create and Send PowerPoint eGreetings with authorSTREAM

Many PowerPoint users create and send their cards as PowerPoint presentations, mainly as email attachments. These work great, but do have some disadvantages.

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01/31/2009 03:13 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: ToolBook Instructor 9.5: The Indezine Review

The amount of content available in the form of PowerPoint slides is amazing -- almost every computer literate person has a bank of slides, be it at their company, home, school, university, or elsewhere. Most of this content won't work too well when saved as a document -- but since slides typically have (or should have) small portions of large sized text with contrasting backgrounds and visuals, they end up becoming perfect as content for PDAs and Smartphones.

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01/22/2009 12:53 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: SlideSix: Conversation with Todd Sharp

Todd Sharp is the creator of SlideSix.com, an online presentation sharing community site. He has been programming in ColdFusion since mid 2004 and blogs regularly about ColdFusion and Ajax at his site cfsilence. Todd provides ColdFusion/Ajax development and consulting services through his company Sharp Interactive, LLC.

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01/22/2009 12:22 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: SlideShare Adds Embedding of YouTube Videos

SlideShare announced the capability to embed YouTube videos within SlideShare uploaded presentations in an open beta. Embeded YouTube videos show up as separate slides inside the SlideShare player. The embedded demo below explains the entire process.

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01/21/2009 10:07 AM

A PowerPoint Blog: SlideBoom Announces Pro Accounts

SlideBoom, an online presentation viewing and sharing site announced the availability of Pro accounts that add more options than what are available to existing Free accounts.

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01/02/2009 01:08 PM

A PowerPoint Blog: Focus on SlideSix.com: Sharing Presentations

I just read TechCrunch's coverage on SlideSix.com, a new presentation sharing site that lets you upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and other file formats such as ODP (OpenOffice), PDF, QuickTime MOV, etc.

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