Here’s a list that’s been around for a while. Landed in my box recently… KNOWHR Blog – 10 Best

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Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 3:53 PM .

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Compare yourself with your peers in InfoComm International’s annual Presentation Professional survey. This year it’s shorter, easier and faster to complete. Whether you’re one of many in a corporate setting, or a one-person shop wearing all the hats, see how you compare in the skills you have and the challenges you face.

To thank you for sharing your opinions and experiences, you will receive a free survey report by e-mail.

The survey is at http://infocomm.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_56aKHqv6ZbwQi3O&SVID=Prod. Contact marketresearch@infocomm.org if you have any questions.

Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 2:56 PM .

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Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 12:01 AM .

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The public beta has been released. Many folks have asked about Producer since Office 07 came out and for a while the official word was…..not going to do it for PPT 2007. Read about it and find the beta download at The PowerPoint Team Blog.

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Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 10:13 AM .

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Can we have a president that does this? Looks like she, like so many others, can use our help! Is Rick just a Republican or are folks at the highest levels of the presentation world idiots?

http://betterppt.com/blog/

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Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 3:44 PM .

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I’ve been impressed by an online video editing and archiving tool that lets you create a
“private label YouTube” – check it out.

http://members2.viditalk.com/view/?id=9DGHQ6GWTSYT34RF6B7S1

Posted by Tom Bunzel at 4:45 PM .

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One of the websites I poke around in is Dave Paradi’s “Think Outside The Slide.”
In addition to many excellent articles he has a very cool personalized assessment for PowerPoint based presenters. Take the assessment here.

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Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 2:48 PM .

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Check out their press release here.

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Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 1:31 PM .

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I recently published an article on CIO.COM on presentations strategy and planning.  Some of you may find it of interest.

Posted by Tom Bunzel at 6:26 PM .

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If you’ve never come across this before you should add it to your favorites or bookmarks. Steve Rindsburg of RDP Slides and the PowerPoint MVP folks have loaded the answers and solutions to almost everything PowerPoint related. Many of the responses in the PowerPoint Discussion Group refer to this site: www.pptfaq.com

RDP Slides is also the home of the very useful PPTools – PowerTools for PowerPoint

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Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 3:18 PM .

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A week or so ago I did a webcast for Microsoft on the newer features in Office 2007 and Vista that are of interest to business owners — the link to it is:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=927550

Posted by Tom Bunzel at 8:30 PM .

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From ZDNet:

Office goes gold. Here come the tools

Excerpt:

Microsoft officials confirmed first thing on November 6 that Office 2007 has gone gold. (The Softies aren’t saying exactly when the product was released to manufacturing, but word is it happened on November 3.)

Posted by Todd Dunn, CTS at 5:15 PM .

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For those interested in presentation best practices the issue always arises what is the most effective way to avoid stale bullets and sameness in slides.  Inevitably the issue of creativity and resourcefulness leads to the concept of metaphors and analogies – using images or diagrams.  The problem for non-artists or designers like me is where to get the nuts and bolts building blocks of these types of tools.

Recently a colleague, Gene Zelazny, the author of Say It With Charts! put me together with an entrepreneur who has launched an interesting site in this space.  PowerFrameworks is an online gallery of conceptual metaphors in the form of PowerPoint shapes, professionally designed and ready to download into your presentation.  The site also features concrete examples of how the metaphors can be implemented, and even a best practices section mirroring many of Zelazny’s own principles.

Kathy Villela, the site’s founder, actually worked at the consulting firm where Zelazny has worked for decades before beginning this site.  Her concept, and what I like about the site, is that it is more than a gallery of shapes or clip art; it is also well constructed and searchable and mentally stimulating.

Posted by Tom Bunzel at 2:49 PM .

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Serious Magic, creators of Ovation, the popular PowerPoint enhancement software, has been acquired by Adobe. Adobe seems to be primarily interested in their video-related products. In the press release, Ovation isn’t even mentioned until the boilerplate verbiage at the end. They also say they will continue to sell the Serious Magic product line. However, as we’ve all seen in the past with acquisitions of this sort, there’s a big difference between selling and supporting/developing.

Posted by Lee Potts at 8:11 AM .

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