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VisualBee –Trying to Automate Creativity

VisualBee –Trying to Automate Creativity

By Ben Kepes on October 3, 2011

Like many people in the technology industry, I’m regularly tasked with creating and delivering presentations – it’s something I really enjoy – spreading the message of cloud to the world. One of the things I don’t especially enjoy however is the design process around presentations – luckily I have a

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Creativity, Design, Microsoft PowerPoint, powerpoint, presentation, Prezi, sliderocket, slideshare, VisualBee | 4 Responses

Sliderocket Positions Itself For The Mobile World

Sliderocket Positions Itself For The Mobile World

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 16, 2010

Sliderocket (see previous CloudAve coverage), the company that made presentations interesting, announced today the release of HTML 5 media player to help users with iOS devices, especially iPad, deliver their presentations on these devices. With iPad selling in huge numbers, this is a clever move by Sliderocket and I am pretty sure iPad users are […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged html5, iOS, ipad, powerpoint, presentations, sliderocket | 2 Responses

Microsoft Should Donate PowerPoint to the Taliban

Microsoft Should Donate PowerPoint to the Taliban

By Zoli Erdos on April 28, 2010

I don’t pretend to be a military strategist, but I’ve figured out how to win the war in Afghanistan.  OK, not on my own – The New York Times helped, with an article titled: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint: Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged afghanistan, army, bureaucracy, humor, microsoft, military, politics, powerpoint, ppt, war | 4 Responses

Mark Suster on Fox News: How to Present Your Business to a Crowd

By Zoli Erdos on February 26, 2010

My favorite quote: One of the worst things with Powerpoint is the bulletpoint…

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Marketing | Tagged bulletpoint, powerpoint, presentation, public speaking, toastmasters

SlideRocket Brings the Real Time Web to Presentations

SlideRocket Brings the Real Time Web to Presentations

By Ben Kepes on February 17, 2010

SlideRocket (more coverage here) is today making a release that sees them move one step closer to making presentations that are integrally bound with the real time web rather than historic reflections. SlideRocket is releasing a new plugin architecture that allows third party developers to create plugins that harness real time data as part of […]

Posted in Design | Tagged poll everywhere, powerpoint, presentation, sliderocket | 4 Responses

Successful presentations? – go back to basics

Successful presentations? – go back to basics

By David Terrar on January 29, 2010

Some of us of a certain age come from a time when presentations weren’t created directly on the PC (or Mac) with PowerPoint (or Keynote), or with cool new online tools like Prezi.  Back then before laptop PCs and low cost flash drives, if there was plenty of money in the marketing budget, and the […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged Design, keynote, marketing, powerpoint, presentations, Prezi, productivity, sales | 1 Response

Sliderocket – It’s Not just About Slides

Sliderocket – It’s Not just About Slides

By Ben Kepes on December 17, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I wrote a post earlier this year questioning the validity of the seemingly multitudinous numbers of applications offering a PowerPoint alternative – it just seems to be an exercise destined for futility. At the time, and after a brief glimpse of the Sliderocket offering I lumped them in with this class of […]

Posted in Design, Marketing, Strategy | Tagged chuck dietrich, powerpoint, sliderocket | 1 Response

Conversations: SAP Influencer Summit vs. Le Web

Conversations: SAP Influencer Summit vs. Le Web

By Guest Authors on December 14, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged BackChannel, BusinessObjects, Influencer Summit, Le Web, powerpoint, ppt, presentations, sap, sapsummit, twitter, web 2.0

The Future of Presentations and Dynamic Content

The Future of Presentations and Dynamic Content

By Guest Authors on December 8, 2009

I spent some time recently with both the founder and the CEO of Sliderocket. I invited CEO Chuck Dietrich to guest post about his vision of the future of presentation applications and what that meant for the world at large. Sliderocket is an interesting product and it was interesting to talk to someone who left […]

Posted in Design, Marketing, Strategy | Tagged powerpoint, salesforce.com, sliderocket | 2 Responses

Auto-Tweet Directly from PowerPoint And Other Twitter Tool Updates

Auto-Tweet Directly from PowerPoint And Other Twitter Tool Updates

By Guest Authors on November 23, 2009

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: […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged AutoTweet, BusinessObjects, powerpoint, presentations, sap, twitter, web 2.0, Xcelsius | 1 Response

Prezi Dazzles: Live Recording of a Social Media Class

Prezi Dazzles: Live Recording of a Social Media Class

By Zoli Erdos on November 9, 2009

I’ve said before: if you wanto to dazzle with your presentation, use Prezi.  The Prezi team did to presentations what Google did to email: throw away all pre-existing notions, re-think why and how we use email (presentations) and build something from scratch.  That’s how you get results that truly dazzle.  Of course that brings up […]

Posted in Design | Tagged innovation, learning curve, powerpoint, ppt, presentations, Prezi | 1 Response

Too Scared to Use the PowerPoint Twitter Tools? Moderation, Updating, New Options

Too Scared to Use the PowerPoint Twitter Tools? Moderation, Updating, New Options

By Guest Authors on October 26, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged All, BusinessObjects, Featured, powerpoint, presentations, sap, Web 2.0 by SAP, Xcelsius | 1 Response

Web 2.0 Presentation Tools from SAP – Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint!

Web 2.0 Presentation Tools from SAP – Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint!

By Guest Authors on October 6, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged BusinessObjects, powerpoint, ppt, presentations, sap, twitter, web 2.0, Xcelsius

Presentations: a Counterpoint. Think Creation, Not Just Delivery

Presentations: a Counterpoint. Think Creation, Not Just Delivery

By Zoli Erdos on September 21, 2009

We’ve often stated there is no such thing as the “CloudAve View”, only the views of individual authors, and we encourage debate even within our own team.  The one thing we all agree in is that debate is good.  In that spirit I offer some counterpoints to Ben’s post: Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel Please […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged collaboration, dazzle, google, keynote, microsoft, powerpoint, powerpoint zoho, ppt, presentation, Prezi, sliderocket, slideshare, web apps | 4 Responses

Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel

Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel

By Ben Kepes on September 21, 2009

I’m not a huge user of presentation software. I’m blessed to not work for a corporate and hence don’t have to justify my existence with a 40 slide deck resplendent in 12 point text and bad transitions. Yup – it’s fair to say I’m not a huge fan of presentations…. A little while ago I […]

Posted in Design, General | Tagged google docs, google gears, keynote, powerpoint, presentation, sliderocker, slideshare, zoho | 3 Responses

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