http://www.visualbeing.com A group weblog dedicated to sharing resources that can help anyone involved in any aspect of the presentation process achieve better results. Sat, 10 May 2008 00:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following Bob Befus' recent example (House Warming for Presentation Facts) I've also started a new solo blog project. Like Bob's new blog, it's continues in the Visual Being tradition of serving the presentations professional but it focuses on a single area of interest. It's called Breaking Murphy's Law and it's ... http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/05/09/new-blog-breaking-murphys-law/ MAKE: Blog: DIY Blu-Ray laser pointer "He said that you could even see the beam of light in a dark room, that's cool." (tags: laserpinter presenting gear) http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/04/22/seen-on-the-web/ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust This post should not be written. It should be depicted. A video. A slideshow. Sketches on a cocktail napkin. Charades. Anything other than letters, words and sentences. Why? Because, according to the nearly ... http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/03/21/think-visual-or-die-%e2%80%93-a-visual-communication-conference-launches-in-sf/ Please join us on Friday, March 14 at 2:00 PM ET for a discussion of screen capture tools and a demonstration of the latest version of TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio. We will cover screen capture and how you can use it for training and production and take a look at ... http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/03/07/infocomm-international-presentations-council-webinar-screen-capture/ Toshiba threw in the towel a few days ago. I expect to see some nice sales on HD-DVD players. I've already seen the entry level Toshiba player way under $200 with 7 free movies for a couple of months now. That was the sign of the impending doom for sure. ... http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/02/24/its-officialhd-dvd-loses-to-blu-ray/ 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 http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/02/22/new-eventpresentation-coaching-and-marketing-tool/ 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. ...............TD http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/02/05/powerpoint-effectiveness-assessment/ Thanks Lee for launching Visual Being and thanks to VB readers for letting me make a small contribution to this site over the years. Really hard to belive it has been about three years already. In 2008 I am renewing my committment to post on presentation-related research and have decided ... http://www.visualbeing.com/2008/01/25/house-warming-for-presentation-facts/ Check out their press release here. ................TD http://www.visualbeing.com/2007/09/18/transmedia-expanding-glide-presenter-to-mobile-devices/ One of the nicer features of Word 2007 is the ability to create blog posts directly from a new Blog document. http://www.visualbeing.com/2007/08/16/using-word-2007-for-blog-posts/