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Robin Good's insight:
Speaking.io is a free web guide to how to present effectively in public curated by @Zach Holman, a subject matter expert, having spoken at a large number of conferences. The Guide is elegantly organized in multiple sections, each containing a small set of more specific information chapters, and all accessible from the home page index.
Helpful. Well designed. 8/10 Check it out now: http://speaking.io/ Follow Speaking.io on Twitter
![]() Robin Good: If you are looking for an innovative Mac app that allows you to fully engage and wow your audience in your public presentation, you should give a look to Slides & Polls by Screen.io. This new app turns a regular slideshow into an interactive online session that can be easily shared to all of your participants screens (computers and mobile devices). Key features include the ability to add interactive polls and show the results with live updates, or to open a discussion channel so that your audience can talk back during the presentation – fully controlled by you, of course. How does it work? You prepare your slides in the app of your choice (e.g. PowerPoint or Keynote) and then you import them into Slides & Polls while adding interactive elements. "Participation happens on the web. Anyone in your audience can join in by opening her smartphone or laptop and going to the presentation’s website. From there on, you decide what’s shown on their screens. It can be slides, text, links, polls, questions…" Key Features: • Each presentation gets a web address • Import slides from PowerPoint, Keynote, etc. • Live web content: audience will see your slides on their smartphone screens • Unique web address for your presentation, Mac App Store preview: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slides-polls/id488579597?mt=12 More info: http://screen.io
![]() Robin Good: HelloSlide is a web-based service which allows anyone to upload a PDF (max 100MB) and add a voice-over track to it by simply adding a text copy of what needs to be said on each slide. HelloSlide does the rest by generating a good quality voice over by utilizing synthsized digital voices that automatically read your script slide after slide. Not only. By leveraging this type of approach HelloSlide can make your presentation available in over 20 languages instantly and by providing a full text transcript with the presentation there may be also some SEO benefits, as search engines can tell now precisely what you are talking about in those slides. The free plan allows about to 50 presentations. The Pro account which costs $9/mo allows up to 200 presentations, an export-to-video function as well as the ability to auto-translate to other languages. The Premium at $39 extends the numbers of presentations, auto-translations and throws in 10 human-voiced translations per month.
My test: http://www.helloslide.com/presentations/520/la-formula-di-sharewood-alt-20111220pdf Plans and pricing: http://www.helloslide.com/pricing FAQ: http://www.helloslide.com/faq Try it now: http://www.helloslide.com/ |
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Robin Good's insight:
Thanks to Pinterest, Giuseppe Gagliano and my own work, here is a useful collection of over 50 presentation tools, resources and services that I have curated, reviewed or written about in the last year or so. The collection includes presentation tools, resources for finding music, clipart and images as well as services that allow you to add video, converto to other formats (PDF, video) and to deliver your presentations in all types of events and to all types of devices. P.S.: This Pinterest collection is the natural, evolutionary fruit of people "pinning" images and stories from my own newsradar dedicated to Presentation Tools available here: http://presentationtools.masternewmedia.org. Full collection: http://pinterest.com/source/presentationtools.masternewmedia.org/
![]() Robin Good: For the geeks out there doing presentations, Flotr2 is a new HTML5 Canvas graphing library to create custom charts and graphs. Among its key features:
You can see some examples of Flotr2 at work here: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2/index Source code: https://github.com/HumbleSoftware/Flotr2 More info: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2/
![]() Sanwa has recently announced the availability of a slim mini portable projector that works in combination with your iPhone 4 or 4S. |
A very nice summary of all the points you need to think about when preparing a conference presentation. "Because “imagine everyone's naked” is terrible advice."