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by Geetesh Bajaj, May 3rd 2011
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As summer sets in this part of the world, temperatures are starting to soar, and most of us prefer staying indoors during the hot afternoons. Fortunately, there is so much you can do indoors -- such as reading this newsletter!
First of all, we are bringing back our popular giveaways -- our sponsor Ppted.com is
giving away five copies of their new Houndstooth series of PowerPoint
templates. And yes, there's plenty of content -- do look in the sidebar
on the right of this new look newsletter to find even more content!
Ppted Houndstooth Giveaway
Ppted is giving away five copies of their Houndstooth
collection of PowerPoint templates. To win, all you
need to do is fill
in this form. This giveaway ends on May 8th.

Learn PowerPoint 2010: SmartArt Graphics
Any of you who has used SmartArt may think it is among the coolest
features that Microsoft has ever introduced in PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office
products -- not only because it is easy but mainly because you can customize SmartArt
to such a large extent.
Look at these tutorials to go ahead with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010
(and it works the same way in Word 2010 and Excel 2010)
-- and do remember to post any questions you may have in our now
open PowerPoint
Stuff LinkedIn group:
What
is SmartArt?
Inserting
SmartArt
Convert
Bulleted Text to SmartArt
Text
Pane For SmartArt
Adding
New Shapes to SmartArt
Delete
Shapes from SmartArt
Change
between SmartArt Layouts (Types)
Change
Colors in SmartArt
Changing
Fill, Line, and Effects for Shapes within SmartArt
Apply
SmartArt Styles
Change
Shapes within SmartArt
Resize
Shapes within SmartArt
Move
Shapes Within SmartArt
Convert
SmartArt to Text
Convert
SmartArt into Shapes
Reset
SmartArt
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
PowerPoint 2011 is most certainly the best version of PowerPoint
for Mac that Microsoft has ever created. This new set of tutorials
walks you through the interface of this program -- if you need
more help, do check out my just-released book, Office
2011 All-in-One for Mac for Dummies that I co-authored with
Jim Gordon.
PowerPoint
2011 for Mac Interface
Ribbon
and Tabs in PowerPoint 2011
Status
Bar in PowerPoint 2011
Slides
and Outline Pane in PowerPoint 2011
Slide
Area in PowerPoint 2011
Notes
Pane in PowerPoint 2011
Rulers
in PowerPoint 2011
Change
The Unit Of Measurement in PowerPoint 2011
Text
Placeholders vs. Text Boxes in PowerPoint 2011
Import
Outlines in PowerPoint 2011
Conversations and Interviews
Here is a list of recent conversations -- read what these personalities
have to say about their books, products, surveys, and sites:
Brainshark's Partnership with Blackboard: Conversation
with Kate Skelly -- Kate
Skelly is vice president for corporate and business
development at Brainshark, Inc., overseeing strategic partnerships,
and the addition and integration of complementary products
and services. Brainshark’s cloud-based software enables
users to create, share and track online and mobile video presentations,
for use in eLearning, sales, marketing and corporate/HR communications.
Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach
and results of their business communications, while dramatically
reducing communications costs. In this conversation, Kate discusses
Brainshark’s partnership with Blackboard, which the company
is announcing today. Read
the conversation here.
Public Words: Conversation with Nick Morgan -- Dr.
Nick Morgan is one of America’s top communication
theorists and coaches. A passionate teacher, he is committed
to helping people find clarity in their thinking and ideas – and
then delivering them with panache. He has been commissioned
by Fortune 50 companies to write for many CEOs and presidents.
He has coached people to give Congressional testimony, to appear
on the Today Show, and to take on the investment community.
He has worked widely with political and educational leaders.
In this conversation, he discusses his work and books -- and
how presenters can communicate with trust and charisma. Read
the conversation here.
Presentation Impact Survey Results: Conversation with
Jim Endicott -- Jim
Endicott is an internationally-recognized consultant,
designer, speaker specializing in professional presentation
messaging, design and delivery. Jim has been a Jesse H. Neal
award-winning columnist for Presentations magazine with his
contributions to the magazine's Creative Techniques column.
Jim has also contributed presentation-related content in magazines
like Business Week, Consulting and Selling Power as well as
a being a paid contributor for a number of industry-related
websites. In this conversation, Jim discusses the results of
the 2010 Annual Presentation Impact Survey conducted by his
company, Distinction Communication, Inc. Read
the conversation here.
Present.me: Conversation with Spencer Lambert -- Spencer
Lambert is a presentation designer by day, and serial
business starter by night. He started his career as a rostrum
cameraman making slides on film (remember that?). His first
PowerPoint job was in 1993, and sadly has been using it pretty
much every day since. Along the way he has started a new media
production agency (1997), an e-commerce website (2000) and
a bar (2004). Some soul searching led him to decide to concentrate
on what he was really good at, and at the end of 2009 decided
to embark on a project that would evolve into Present.me. In
this conversation, Spencer discusses Present.me. Read
the conversation here.
authorSTREAM Premium Subscriptions: Conversation with
Harman Singh -- Harman
Singh is the Founder of two Internet platforms - authorSTREAM
and WiZiQ. authorSTREAM.com is a PowerPoint sharing platform
striving to make your presentations sharable on the Web - whether
they are viewed from desktops, mobile phones or tablets like
iPad. authorSTREAM recently announced changes and improvements
in their premium subscription plans -- Harman discusses this
and more exclusively in this conversation.
Read the conversation here.
Learn PowerPoint 2010: STAMP Add-in in PowerPoint
Microsoft has released a free add-in for PowerPoint that they call STAMP, which actually is an abbreviation for Sub-titling Text Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint. Even though this add-in is in beta, it hasn't crashed for me -- and while STAMP has been created for accessibility reasons, there is no reason why you cannot use it in any presentation you create that includes a longer video. Here are links from which you can access the complete set of tutorials on STAMP:
STAMP - Accessibility Add-in
Download and install the STAMP Add-in
Create Video Captions using the STAMP Add-in
TTML XML Files for the STAMP Add-in
Import TTML Caption Files in the STAMP Add-in
Edit Captions within the STAMP Add-in
Align, Hide, Show, or Remove Captions using the STAMP Add-in
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