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Interviewed by: Geetesh Bajaj
Interviews of people who enrich presentations and PowerPoint.
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Last Updated: March 3rd 2009
Dave
Paradi is known as The Office Technology Lifeguard because he
rescues people from "Death by PowerPoint"
and other electronic sins. His articles, special reports
and books help you quickly and easily leverage the technology
you already own to save time and make money.
In this interview, Dave discusses the true cost of bad presentations
and also discusses death by PowerPoint. He also talks about creativity
blocks and the importance of outlining. Read
here...
Richard
Bretschneider is ten year Microsoft veteran, having joined the company
in 1993 to work on PowerPoint IV for Windows and the Macintosh. Over
the years, he's contributed to the design and direction of the application,
and been awarded three PowerPoint related patents. Specific feature
area highlights include the first Microsoft Clip Art Gallery, AutoContent
Wizard, PowerPoint HTML export, PowerPoint Kiosk and Browse Modes, Document
Hyperlinks, Presentation Collaboration and Commenting, and Password
Protection. He was lead program manager for PowerPoint 2003, and is
one of those currently directing planning for the next version of the
product. Prior to Microsoft, Richard worked at Ashton-Tate and VisiCorp.. More...
Tony
Dunckel is a Product Marketing Manager at TechSmith Corporation,
a multimedia software company based in Michigan. TechSmith, founded
in 1987, focuses on enabling users to capture images and activity from
Windows desktops, including animation, graphics, text and video, and
enhance the captured material with special effects, narration and a
variety of multimedia features. The company's flagship products are
SnagIt, Camtasia Studio and EnSharpen. Their software products increase
business productivity and enrich personal computing by helping users
to communicate, teach and demonstrate complex ideas and subtle points
visually, rather than through words alone. More...
Jerry
Weissman founded Power Presentations, Ltd. in 1988 in Silicon Valley.
His background in broadcasting, television production, publication,
professional writing and classic rhetoric made Weissman uniquely suited
to create a new comprehensive, media-based approach to presentation
coaching.
Mr. Weissman's initial focus was to help companies in Information Technology
develop their general presentation skills. One of his debut efforts was
the Cisco Systems IPO roadshow. Following its very successful launch,
Don Valentine, of Sequoia Capital, and then Chairman of Cisco's Board
of Directors, attributed
"at least two to three dollars" of the offering price to Mr.
Weissman's coaching. More...
Dennis
Ricks is the founder and President of CrystalGraphics, Inc.,
based in Santa Clara, California, which is a leading developer and publisher
of add-iwns for PowerPoint.
Prior to leading the development of the PowerPlugs product line, he lead
the development of TOPAS, a pioneering 3D animation software package for
the PC. Prior to that, he worked at General Electric, as a manager in
the R&D department of its CAD/CAM division. While in college he invented
and patented a novel 3D television system. More...
Bill
Odell has over 18 years of technology marketing and sales experience,
and is currently the Vice President of Marketing at Latitude Communications,
a provider of fully integrated web and voice conferencing applications
based in San Jose, CA.
Prior to joining Latitude in 1996, Bill held positions as Director of
Marketing and Director of National Accounts with Compression Labs, a pioneer
in the video conferencing industry. Prior to joining Compression Labs,
Bill was with Sun Microsystems, where he was a Senior Product Manager
in Sun's storage products group. More...
Rick
Altman is the spirit behind PowerPoint Live, an event that's going
to be held from October 12 to 15, 2003 at Tucson, Arizona.
In this interview, Rick discusses PowerPoint Live, PowerPoint, Microsoft,
tennis tournaments, rumours, trivia, many more things and why you should
be there in Tucson. More...
Susan
Berkley is a former radio personality and a well-known voice on
TV and radio commercials and phone lines.
Recently featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, Business Week
and on CNBC, she is one of the voices that says "Thank you for using
AT&T," and is the voice of Citiphone Banking. More...
Michael
Power is the founder and Managing Director of Neuxpower,
a software solutions company based in the UK. Neuxpower custom-build
both stand-alone applications and add-ins that enhance existing software
such as Microsoft Office.
Their commercially-available PowerPoint optimizer, NXPowerLite, radically
reduces the size of PowerPoint files. More...
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