episode 65: Updating Sandy on the 2018 Presentation Summit
Join Troy, Nolan and Sandra for a post-Presentation Summit conversation as Troy and Nolan update Sandy on their key take-aways and stories from this year's conference.
episode 64: PowerPoint International Perspectives
This episode we have a group of international presentation designers gathered together to talk about PowerPoint, what they see in presentation use and design, and lots of other random topics. Join the conversation with Troy, Nolan, Glen Millar (from Brisbane, Australia), Chantal Bosse (from Quebec, Canada), Tom Howell - Mark and Sam (from Synapsis Creative in Sydney, Australia).
episode 63: Live From the 2018 Presentation Summit!
This episode is a live conversation recorded at the 2018 Presentation Summit in San Diego California. We gathered around a table and just the let conversation flow - so enjoy a fantastic everything presentation conversation among 10 presentation industry experts!
episode 62: Presentability (with Richard Goring of BrightCarbon)
Join this conversation about the two components of every presentation; the audience and the presenter. Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by Richard Goring of Bright Carbon for a fantastic time talking about visual slide design and finding the balance of content to visuals that is best for both presenter and audience. We coined the term "Presentability" during this podcast to describe the optimal balance.
episode 61: PowerPoint Shortcuts
Join a great conversation with Troy, Sandra and Nolan sharing "PowerPoint Shortcuts", including keyboard shortcuts, right-click tricks, app setup, faster design, better presenting and anything else that helps us get more done quicker, better or professionally.
episode 60: Do You ARS? (Ben Anderson and John Cosgrove of VoiceHive)
Audience Response System, or A-R-S, is a great process of involving an audience in a presentation. It is a way for a presenter, a meeting, or even a classroom to get real-time input from the audience, and display everyone's answers. For our conversation about ARS we are joined by John Cosgrove of VoiceHive and Ben Andersson as meeting ARS specialist. We talk about software we use, ways we added audience interaction, and ideas for presenters to integrate audience interaction into a presentation.
episode 59: Video Round-Tripping in PowerPoint
Video round-tripping in PowerPoint is like the movie inception, where we figure out everything is a dream, inside of a dream, that is possibly inside of another dream… this is creating content in PowerPoint, that is exported to video, and then that video become part of the PowerPoint content, or a slide with a video of PowerPoint content with other PowerPoint content. It is crazy stuff you can do with PowerPoint, and Troy, Sandy and Nolan have a great design studio conversation all about it!
episode 58: Women Owned Presentation Businesses (with Sandra Johnson, Lori Chollar & Nancy Duarte)
After talking about studio projects and presentation industry news, Troy and Nolan head out the door while Sandra Johnson, Nancy Duarte, and Lori Chollar have an amazing time talking about being Women Owned Businesses in the design industry - a conversation not to miss!
episode 57: Do You Like (PowerPoint) Sections?
PowerPoint Sections, first introduced in PowerPoint 2010 are still a hidden feature to many. Troy, Nolan and Sandy spend a whole episode to talking about this great, and underutilized feature. How they use, when they use, and reasons to use PowerPoint sections, along with tips & tricks, asks of Microsoft and examples. Enjoy another PowerPoint conversation!
episode 56: PowerPoint Templates In Depth with Julie Terberg and Echo Swinford
PowerPoint templates are a key, and fundamental, feature of PowerPoint. We have all seen "templates" that are far from a true, functional and helpful PowerPoint template. Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by two industry experts in PowerPoint template development who literally wrote the book on PowerPoint templates, Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg.