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Presentation Facts is an on-going series of posts exploring what is known for sure about presentations and presentation visuals. The series is moderated by Robert Befus.
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Bye bye blackboard ….
“The result is an exhibition about science, art, celebrity and nostalgia. The blackboard is fast disappearing from meetings, classes and lectures: ‘bye-bye blackboard’.”
(tags: art blackboard presentations science technology)
PC World: Busting the Biggest PC Myths
“We expose the bad advice that wastes your time and money.”
(tags: computer myths pc technology tips)
Posted by Lee Potts at 6:51 PM .
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“>thumbnail image provides link to an example of vidoe blog created with the demo version of the new Vlog It! tool from Serious Magic.
I originally created the video in Communicator using the V-screen and teleprompter and then dropped it into Vlog It! Amazingly Vlog It! itself has these same features — the main difference from the Communicator product is that it doesn’t output the same range of professional quality higher res video files.
As a bonus of this product, the FLV file (which normally takes Flash to create and use) along with the thumbnail images from your blog are in My Documents\Vlog It!\My Output.
Perhaps the coolest feature is the way to instantly create a blog thumbnail file and then drag and drop it into your blog’s editor. (Note: there is a slight glitch with the music coming up twice in this version but I think it serves to give you the idea). I see the Video Blog as a great presentation follow up tool to provide professionals with a way to follow up with their clients and audience.
As more and more portable devices play video, the subscription capabilities of text blogs will also be easier to incorporate into video downloads, making this a very cool rich media tool.
Posted by Tom Bunzel at 1:45 PM .
Guy Kawasaki: Lessons from Steve’s Keynote
“As opposed to the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint, Steve uses the 125 (or so) slides/90 minutes/60 point font rule. 
But then again, the rules are different for Steve. Here are ten lessons to learn from his keynote.”
(tags: communication powerpoint presentation presentations)
InfoWorld: IBM expert warns of short life span for burned CDs
“Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM Deutschland, has his own view: If you want to avoid having to burn new CDs every few years…”
(tags: Storage technology tools)
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools: Smart Power Strip
“This is so simple. You plug your PC into the main socket, and then plug your printer, scanner, monitor etc into the other sockets. When you turn off your computer, the smart unit shuts the power off to the other sockets.”
(tags: computer power strip tools)
Posted by Lee Potts at 6:51 PM .
During the 2006 CES Show, InfoComm Presentation Council members Betsy Weber of Techsmith and Rob Lindstrom of C60 Communications enountered two strange sights. One was an alien visitor they ran into in Quark’s Bar. The other was an original Commodore 64 computer on the show floor.
Posted by Robert L. Lindstrom at 5:29 PM .
Video-on-the-go stole the show last week at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 people swarmed Las Vegas to see the latest electronic gadgets, gizmos and thingamajigs, demonstrating once again the bottomless demand for products and services that nobody needs.
Many of the announcements by hardware and services companies focused on devices to create, transmit and display video whenever and wherever. Giants such as, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Sony, Palm, Starz, RCA and Verizon focused much of their hype on bringing television and video to the Web and to portable devices.
Video Podcasting, as both entertainment delivery and personal communication, is shaping up to be the NBT (next big thing.) And that has major implications for anyone who creates and delivers presentations.
The trend suggests that, just as Web conferencing and collaboration moved presentations out of the meeting room and into cyberspace, the arrival of portable, wireless, video-capable capture and display devices makes it possible to deliver rich media presentations on demand to any location at any time.
As video becomes more available, it also becomes more desirable. Video will quickly become expected fare in mobile business communications, which presents significant production, budgetary and skillset challenges to professional media communicators.
In addition, video is becoming a two-way street. Someday soon, video capture and transmission will be as commonplace as cellphone snapshots are today. Video will move from being push media to being interactive media. Presenters and audience alike will have mobile video capability.
The age of Me-TV is upon us. Watch it.
Posted by Robert L. Lindstrom at 1:38 PM .
I was contacted by Mark Rosenthal of One World Presentation Mgt about his product the Presenter that enables large scale conferences to organize and present many different presentations. The Presenter™ is an application to manage large numbers of presentations at medical and association meetings. The program loads, sorts, organizes, and launches PowerPoint presentations from outside PowerPoint. It is database driven allowing for management and reporting for hundreds to thousands of presentation files.
The only thing I can compare it to from a look at the web site is Slide Manager and other similar server driven technologies, but my sense is that this product may be more performance based in real time and integrate well with high end conferences. The list of testimonials is also impressive.
Posted by Tom Bunzel at 2:22 PM .