
Conversations: SAP Influencer Summit vs. Le Web
I’ve spent the last few days attending – virtually – the SAP Influencer Summit and the Le Web conference in Paris. The two events were very different, but I think there’s some interesting comparisons that can be drawn that point to the future direction of conferences. SAP Influencer Summit Let’s start with the SAP Influencer […]

Auto-Tweet Directly from PowerPoint And Other Twitter Tool Updates
Another round of updates to the PowerPoint Twitter Tools, including: Auto-tweeting An additional feedback slide An option for secure internal use A customizable text-zooming tool The ability to set up values in advance (for example, to add the tools into a conference template) To access all these tools, please go to the main download page: […]

SAP’s 12sprints Collaborative Decision-Making Prototype
You can now sign up to be a beta participant of SAP’s 12sprints project, “a collaborative environment for people to make better decisions based on data” or a “people-connecting, data-sharing, decision-making tool that actually sets work in motion.” Early versions of the prototype were glimpsed during demonstrations by Léo Apotheker and Ian Kimbell at SAP […]

SAP’s First Official iPhone Application
Not What You Might Think No, SAP’s first official iPhone application is NOT the BusinessObjects Explorer iPhone Application that Marge Breya demonstrated during the keynote of SAP TechEd Vienna, and which Alexis Naibo of the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center used to win the Demo Jam contest. That application isn’t quite yet available on iTunes (but […]

Too Scared to Use the PowerPoint Twitter Tools? Moderation, Updating, New Options
I’ve posted a new set of tools to the PowerPoint Twitter Tools pages. The new features include: Moderated tweets New tool to tweet directly from PowerPoint New “mood meter” tool New voting pie chart tool Moderated Tweets and New Feedback Slide Options Are you scared of your audience? Me neither. But when I recently asked […]

Web 2.0 Presentation Tools from SAP – Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint!
In today’s web 2.0 world, sometimes the presenter on stage is the only one who doesn’t know what the audience is thinking – because everybody else is viewing the Twitter stream. These new prototypes fix that problem, allowing you to give presentations in web 2.0 style, with the comments from your audience appearing directly on […]