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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
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December 11, 2023
So, what is empower? Think of empower as a supercharged helper for your PowerPoint decks. It’s like having a toolbox full of fancy templates and design tricks that make your slides look professional without sweating over each detail. It keeps your presentations looking consistently on-brand, so everything has that same cool, polished style.
Read about how empower Express fares.
December 5, 2023
Kurt Dupont is a solution provider who would go out of his way just to ensure he brings out the best when it comes to issues that have to deal with data-driven presentations, data visualization, and digital signage software. He started by working at airports worldwide to set up airport databases and flight information screens. This evolved to become the basis for PresentationPoint. In this conversation, Kurt discusses Split-Flap TV, being used for Paper Planes, an apparel and lifestyle store.
December 1, 2023
The inexorable march of globalization in business has created a vast landscape of diverse workforces of diverse origins, all working together but speaking in a Babel of tongues. In their desire to communicate effectively, transplanted workers seek to learn the language of their adopted homes in classes and books, from computers, and online programs. These expatriates also seek to speak their newly acquired language more clearly, which has created a surge in a veteran niche industry called “Accent Reduction.”
Learn more with Jerry Weissman.
November 21, 2023
Jerry Weissman talks about the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, and his books, that contain advice that is applicable to presentations: how audiences process what they hear. Matt Krause, a communications consultant discusses communications and presentations. Kurt Dupont of PresentationPoint discusses Split-Flap TV, a new venture that creates split and flap styled digital boards. Phillip Khan-Panni of Toastmasters International looks at the story to make you and your business stand out.
We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
November 15, 2023
Matt Krause is a Californian who now lives in Turkey. He runs the international communications consultancy Recipient Labs and spends his free time reading, cooking, and walking distances that should probably be driven. In Turkey, for example, he walked from one end to the other end of that one and wrote a book about it. In this conversation, Matt talks about communications and presentations.
November 13, 2023
A very high proportion of business presentations fail because they tell the wrong story. They talk about what they do, not about the benefit they offer. We all need to know what makes us interesting; it is our Added Value. If you don’t know your own Added Value, you will probably say the wrong things about yourself or about your business. Sadly, most Elevator Speeches fail for the very same reason.
Read more with Phillip Khan-Panni of Toastmasters International.
November 8, 2023
Kurt Dupont is a solution provider who would go out of his way just to ensure he brings out the best when it comes to issues that have to deal with data-driven presentations, data visualization, and digital signage software. He started by working at airports worldwide to set up airport databases and flight information screens. This evolved to become the basis for PresentationPoint. In this conversation, Kurt discusses Split-Flap TV, a new venture that creates split and flap styled boards.
November 7, 2023
We begin with how this third quarter of 2023 is a good time to track and record your presentation activity. Patrick J McKenna of Shufflrr explains more in this guest post. Mike Power of Neuxpower talks about the amazing new features in v2 of Slidewise, a PowerPoint add-in that helps users to find, edit, and control their presentation content more efficiently.
We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
November 6, 2023
The legendary Broadway composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, died November 26, 2021, at the age of 91, but his legacy lives on. His many Broadway musicals earned him eight Tony Awards, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize, but he also wrote two impressive books in which he shared the secrets of his craft. Amazingly, these books have valuable advice that is applicable to presentations: how audiences process what they hear.
Read more with Jerry Weissman.
November 3, 2023
Mike Power owns and runs Neuxpower, the company behind the popular file compressor NXPowerLite and the amazing PowerPoint add-in Slidewise. He has been running Neuxpower for more than 25 years, which makes him feel a tiny bit old. When at work he enjoys designing useful software, and is really loving the challenge of making Slidewise powerful, yet easy to use. In this conversation, Mike talks about version 2 of Slidewise, a PowerPoint add-in that helps users to find, edit, and control their presentation content more efficiently.
November 2, 2023
It is that time of the year, fourth quarter. The weather is changing, deadlines are shorter and everybody’s just a little bit more wound up than usual. Do not be discouraged friends, it is time to finish strong, crush our quotas and take a few days for ourselves. As we move forward into the new year, it is necessary to leave those processes which have weighed us down all year in the dust. Let us set our sights on the sweet horizons that we have laid out for ourselves.
Read more with Patrick J McKenna of Shufflrr.
October 24, 2023
We begin with a post by Jerry Weissman where he talks about Vinod Khosla's approach to slide decks as a venture capitalist. What does he look for in a slide? Read more to find out. Kurt Dupont of PresentationPOINT looks at the concept of public signage, all the way from clay tablets to cloud-based digital signage. We also bring you a review of AKVIS' amazing new Inspire AI 2 product that works both as a Photoshop plug-in and a standalone program. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
October 16, 2023
What’s one thing a barbershop, a laundromat, and an arcade all have in common? No, not quarters. They all have some sort of signage advertising their services. In fact, most businesses do. Human beings have been communicating since the dawn of time, and our methods of communication have evolved dramatically over the centuries. From cave paintings to digital signage screens, we have come a long way in our ability to share information with others. Signs are especially vital when it concerns business or commercial services. In fact, signs are so important that over 76% of the respondents to a survey revealed that they’ve previously visited a store or business due to attractive signage.
October 11, 2023
By any measure, Vinod Khosla is one of the most influential people in business today. In his long and distinguished career, Mr. Khosla has contributed to the growth of hundreds of companies, primarily in his role as a venture capitalist. On their way to maturity, each of the many companies Mr. Khosla touched came under the scrutiny of his expert eye. For each of them, he applies his five-second rule: he puts a slide on a screen, removes it after five seconds, and then asks the viewer to describe the slide.
Read more with Jerry Weissman.
October 10, 2023
The ability to give an excellent presentation is essential in today’s business world. Nick Ronald of Toastmasters International shares skills required to help you stand out in your professional work environment. Dr. Jens Hühn worked for several years as a data analytics consultant and developed SlideFab, which helped create lots of PowerPoint slides without copy and paste from Excel. In this exclusive conversation, he discusses SlideFab.
Richard Goring of BrightCarbon talks about his participation in the upcoming Presentation Summit. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
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October 9, 2023
AKVIS is a software company known for creating various graphic and image processing tools, often using AI and advanced algorithms. They have developed several applications for tasks like photo retouching, artistic effects, and image editing. Their new version 2 of Inspire AI ups the ante and uses neural networks to stylize images using various samples of painting. The program copies the color scheme and style of an art sample to a photo, creating a new artwork.
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