Robin Good: Rvl.io is a new web-based presentation tool, that makes it as easy as possible the creation, editing and publication of a slideshow.
Rvl.io, which is free to use, allows you to format slides, select the type of transitions, and to integrate text, images and links. All presentations are set by default to private, but can be easily made public in one click.
Robin Good: Personify Live is a new type of Windows app which allows you to integrate in your live webcast, online event or webconference your real-time video image overlayed on the slide content you are showcasing.
To achieve this result, Personify Live extends the capabilities of your favorite web conferencing solution (GoToMeeting, GoTowebinar, WebEx, Adobe Connect, Skype, Lync, etc.) "by extracting you from your surroundings and placing you within the presentation".
"The technology creates a virtual green screen feel for the presenter, for a communication experience that attempts to come as close to being physically present in front of the audience as possible.
[Personify Live] extracts live video of the presenter to then superimpose it onto the desktop to create a layer on top of a presentation.
There’s also a complementary iPhone or Android app that acts as a remote control, letting presenters mute the video feed of themselves with a click of a button, and interact with the content to emphasize and engage their audience.
Robin Good: Sketchfab is a web-based service which allows you to publish, embed and share fully interactive 3D models online without the need to install any special software or browser plugin.
Sketchfab is like a YouTube for 3D interactive models.
To use Sketchfab you only need to create a free account and upload a 3D model file in one of the 25 supported formats. After processing, standard technologies like WebGL and HTML5 are used in your browser to display your 3D models in real-time.
The web-visualized version of your 3D model can then be made public and can be embedded in any web site or blog. You can also easily remove the models you uploaded anytime you want to.
Robin Good: SilkSlides is a web-based platform that offers an alternative to Slideshare by providing an ad-free, clean interface, an easy and straightforward way to upload any PPT or PDF file, and a dedicated URL cum discussion space where your readers or colleagues can contribute and comment your work.
Slides can be viewed in full-screen mode and presentations can be downloaded - if allowed - by readers.
Robin Good: Crunched is a web-based platform that allows you to upload, share, live present (with audio-conferencing support) and send visual presentations to your key contacts and partners while being able to track in detail their viewing times and actions.
A free basic version allows for publishing one deck of slides, screen-sharing, audio conferencing, text chat and a maximum of three live participants. Premium accounts, which start at $9/mo, add the option of having a custom personalized URL, ten or more participants, and more.
Robin Good: Haiku Deck is an iPad app that makes it easy for anyone to create a highly visual and professionally-looking presentation with the minimum of effort.
Haiku Deck utilizes an approach that I think you are going to see increasingly around. "Embedded design" is the word I use for now to describe it. With it I mean the integration of design restrictions and limitations within the functionalities of the tool so that it is actually "impossible" to create something looking bad or amateurish.
And this is exactly what Haiku Deck provides. At the expense of some creative freedom (you have plenty of tools for that) Haiku Deck has decided to specialize in helping those that prefer investing more in finding the right ideas and words to communicate rather than juggling slide components around the screen to find the perfect balance.
Haiku Deck goes also a long way in helping you communicate in a highly visual format by making it extremely easy to find the images you need by looking for all of the Creative Commons-licensed images available out there that match your keywords or your specific requests.
Robin Good: Here is a curated collection of "libraries for plotting data on maps, frameworks for creating charts, graphs and diagrams and tools to simplify the handling of data" to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations.
I turn to this collection routinely for inspiration and to learn what's up and coming in the dataviz world. d3.js was probably my latest find through this site.
Robin Good: PresentationTube is a downloadable software (for Windows and soon for Mac too) that focuses on helping you open an existing PowerPoint presentation to record over it your video and voice-over.
The final output can be saved in a vriety of standard file formats and can be published to PresentationTube or to any other video sharing site.
Key additional features include:
- Whiteboard
- Integrated zoomable browser
- Pause recording anytime
- Output to WMV, FLV, AVI
- Multiple output layout options
Free and paid versions avilable. (The free version is limited to: - Only 15 mins video recording time length. - Limited video recording options. - Personal and home use only license. Paid version is $50).
Robin Good: Build-a-Map is a web app which allows you to build custom maps and itineraries by adding visual information layers on top of Google Maps.
Differently than creating a map in Google Maps by using the "My Places" feature where you can only add placemarks, paths, and shaded shapes, Build-a-Map allows you to add directly your own data sets, special shapes and custom labels.
Servizio che consente di creare mappe personalizzate utilizzando google maps. E' possibile creare itinerari, aggiugnere segnaposti di varie tipologie, inserire testo, note, etichette e dati e informazioni sulla mappa. In ambito educativo può essere ussato per la ricostruzioen di eventi storici (dallo sbarco dei mille alla guerra dei cento anni, ecc. ecc. ). Utile come esercizio per gli studenti. Nella versione Free è possibile realizzare tre mappe
Robin Good: Dropr is a new visual curation and presentation platform which allows you to easily import / upload any type of content, from text to sound clips, video, images and more, to your online creative space.
Multimedia contents can be organized into Portfolio, Projects and Collections. (Frankly I was a bit overwhelmed by all these levels and by their effective role, but it looks like by browsing other people collections, that this is not an issue limited to me.)
To get an idea of the type of things you can do with Dropr go to the home page here: http://dropr.com and click on the Explore button on the top right corner. Then click on one of the three buttons (Portfolios, Projects, Collections) and see what a fantastic world of stunning visual portfolios can be set up with this tool.
Once you are in a collections or portfolio the visual browsing, navigation and experience is great. I'd recommend it to any visual artist wanting to set up rapidly a visual portfolio of his best work. The hard part, at least from a conceptual viewpoint, is understanding how to organize these different levels and how to take best advantage of them.
Robin Good: WalkMe.com is a new app which allows web site and app publishers to easily create step-by-step, interactive on-screen instructions that help users to complete specific tasks or lern how to use a new software tool.
Walkme works both as a browser add-on as well as a mobile app for your iOS device.
This is awesome - thanks so much for posting about WalkMe! Feel free to shoot us a mail if you have any questions - we're here for you 24/7 - seriously. support@walkme.com
Robin Good: If you are looking for online resources where to find free / creative-commons licensed songs and music tracks for your presentation or video clip here is a good collection of 20 such resources.
Robin Good: Davinci Note is an iOS app which allows you to easily create elegant visual notes and layouts which can be utilized for many different purposes.
Davinci Note provides 16 different styles for your visual layout as well as different types of grids to organize your photos inside them.
Final notes can be shared privately with your contacts or published publicly on the davinci site as well as on your favorite social media channels (Twitter and Facebook).
Robin Good: I used to love the Google contextual mini-browser (the Google Deskbar - 2003), something probably most people today have never seen nor have a memory of, but which in my humble opinion, was one of the best and most useful tools released by Google ever.
Well the little mini-search tool is back in a new customized format inside the Google Docs Presentation tool, where you can now easily search for reference, quotes, information and images related to the topic you are working on in your presentation.
Search becomes contextual and the relevant information found can be immediately integrated into the work we are creating. (Any information or image you find with the Google Research Tool can be intuitively selected and dragged onto the slide area, where it can be sized and positioned in any way you like.)
Each content item found with the Google Research Tool and utilized in your slide content is automatically linked back to its original source to simplify the credit and attribution process.
Extremely useful. Especially for quotes and images.
Robin Good: The Icon Library offers over 350,000 free icons which can be sorted by category, artist, popularity, date or searched by color, tag or name.
Favorite icons can be easily collected, organized and shared with others and can be used across different operating systems.
The library exists since 1994 and it has been growing steadily, by collecting quality icon designs from capable artists and supporting the best ones by purchasing their icon licenses.
From the original article: "One of the cool things about PowerPoint is that it let's you embed sounds into directly into the presentation. You can insert sound loops and cliparts to decorate your presentations or even add a nice background music while playing the slide show. Here..."
Robin Good: If you are looking for a tool or service that would allow you to sync up the video of you speaking at an event with the slides that were being projected, into a seamsless, web-shareable presentation, I have put together this small collection of ten tools designed just for this.
I have noted for each one whether there is a free account and how much does it cost the lowest "pro" version.
Robin Good: Presentate is a new web-based HTML5 presentation builder which promises flawless compatibility across operating systems and devices, integrated interactivy and some integrated design and editorial guidance.
From the official site: "Exporting your deck to a PDF, or uploading it to a Flash-based player shares a low-fidelity snapshot of your presentation. The accompanying narrative is lost, and your readers are left with pull quotes, sound bytes, or a bullet point summary.
Presentate does things differently. As you create your presentations right in the browser, they’re immediately ready to be shared with people, and the fidelity and value of all your hard work remains intact — no exporting process, no hassle."
"Unlike your current tools, Presentate helps you engage your audience — not with effects and gimmicks, but with a high-fidelity, immersive experience that works across all platforms."
Robin Good: If you are looking to live demo your new iOS app over the Internet, or if you need to record a screencast of how your app works, this short video tutorial from Paolo Tosolini will provide you with an immediate and very effective solution.
Just follow his instructions and you can start live streaming your app demo in just a matter of minutes.
Here is what you need to make this possible:
1) An iPhone 4S, iPad2 or iPad3
2) An application called Reflection by Squirrels LLC http://reflectionapp.com
3) A Google Plus account
"The magic happens thanks to Apple's technology called Airplay, which allows you to mirror your device to your PC / Mac via the Reflection app ($14 - free trial). Google+ Hangouts then shares the mirrored window to you audience, and the 'On Air' features does the live streaming via YouTube."
From the official site: "The PDFrizator is a Freeware tool to create PDF presentations, with the possibility to setup the PDF page transition effect, page advance time, and background music.
This can be done for already existing PDF's, or from the various file type formats supported, that can all be converted, and visually combined, in the same project.
Because of the possibility to convert multiple file formats, the PDFrizator is also a handy tool to rapidly, and visually, create PDF files"
Key features include:
Powerful Resource Explorer, able to browse local files and online ones using Internet services such as: Bing images, Google images, Picasa, Flickr and Twitpic.
Advanced Sound Explorer, with embedded player, to easily select local music files, or found in the Internet, searching in sites such as SoundCloud.
Visually merge, delete, rotate, rearrange and set result PDF pages size.
Robin Good: Rachel Smith explains in very simple words how you can use your iPad to capture and record visually the key ideas and concepts presented during a lecture, keynote, training class or presentation.
She provides a good round-up of four relevant tools that can be used for this task, analyzing their key pros and cons as well as providing logistic and technical advice on how to best organize and setup yourself for doing visual recording on the iPad.
As similar tools will provide more ready-made icons, templates and patterns available for this kind of real-time idea-capturing, this rare and pioneering visual recording work will begin to catch up even more rapidly.
Great ideas and excellent modelling from Rachel. I like her suggestion that you can practise using Youtube or TED talks and create your charts as you follow along. Amazing. Thanks for scooping, Rod!
Robin Good: SlideBook is a presentation template available to SlideRocket users, which allows the creation of beautiful looking flipbooks.
You can copy this full SlideBook with all its contents and edit it from start to finish with your own stuff.
SlideRocket is a paid, web-based presentation software with many great features (I have been a paying user in the past) but you need not pay to try out this new template and the possibilities it offers. Just sign up for a free account and check inside the Inspiration link.
All of the templates inside the Get Inspiration area are of the highest quality and offer a great opportunity to create some visually stunning material.
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