“Tools and services to deliver your presentations: online and off”
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Robin Good
Robin Good: TargetMap is a free web service that allows you to create and customize professional-looking data-maps with any country or area in the world.
Maps created with TargetMap (satellite, physical, hybrid, etc:) can utilize excel-formatted data, can be color-coded and customized manually, or specific data can be input in them.
The user can also leverage existing public maps for the creation and customization of new ones.
Final maps can be exported as images, embedded in your web site or blog or shared directly to Facebook and Twitter.
Three options are available for your maps: shareable, not shareable and private/business. The first two options are free and the third one starts at $49/month.
Free shareable maps do not support the zip code field.
Find out more: http://www.targetmap.com/
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Robin Good: PresentationTube is a Windows PC software plus a web-based service which allows you to record your own screen, add synched voice-over and publish it online. Key features include:
Examples: http://presentationtube.net/index_watch.php Software requirements: MS PowerPoint® or PowerPoint Viewer 2000/03/07/10 Freeware for personal or educational use only. Download Windows software: http://presentationtube.net/index_record.php Find out more: http://presentationtube.net/ 
Robin Good: This has got to be a dream come true. Create professionally-looking interactive graph charts (and soon also full infographics) with the best tool and easiest interface available out there. Infogr.am makes it as easy as it can possibly be the creation of charts that will always look great and effective no matter what your design skill level is. You simply choose the type of graph you want (bar, line, pie, matrix) to create, edit the existing data with your own, and you are ready to go. Each chart is designed following some basic information design principles, allowing data to be easily read and for the chart to look very credible and "professional".
Infogram integrates an online library where to save your completed work, and an upcoming online store. Awesome. 10/10 
From the official press release: "Aquafadas MotionComposer simplifies Flash and HTML5 creation by generating interactive web content in Flash and HTML5 at the same time. MotionComposer you can create your own animations and interactive objects without writing a single line of code. Just combine pictures and texts in MotionComposer’s user interface, and have them animated automatically through ready-to-use transitions. MotionComposer is an easy-to-use authoring tool, built on familiar and user-friendly concepts such as slides, states, and actions. MotionComposer, makes it easy to create custom banners, animated buttons or dynamic additions for websites and blogs." Key features:
Mac and PC versions available Pricing: $149 Free trial version available here: http://www.aquafadas.com/en/motioncomposer/ Examples: http://blog.aquafadas.com/ More info: http://www.aquafadas.com/en/motioncomposer/ 
Robin Good: Slidevana is a set of editable Keynote slide templates that allows anyone to put together professional-looking presentations without needing to be a graphic designer. Key features include: - 130 editable slide templates - templates for statistical graphs and charts - easy to edit and customize each slide - free lifetime updates - 100% satisfaction-guaranteed - get reimbursement if you are not happy with it Take a tour of Slidevana: http://www.slidevana.com/tour Check out the gallery of slide designs available in Slidevana: http://www.slidevana.com/gallery Slidevana works both on Macs as well as on iPhone and iPad devices. Pricing: $69 (includes Mac and iPhone/iPad versions) P.S.: Slidevana for Keynote (Mac) is available today but also a Slidevana for PowerPoint is already in the works. More info: http://www.slidevana.com/ 
Robin Good: If you are looking for quality PowerPoint presentation templates, PresentationBundle.com may indeed have what you need. The presentation bundle slides are displayed in a resolution of 16:9 and 4:3 and are compatible with both PowerPoint 2007 as well as PowerPoint 2010 versions running Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Price: $25 More info: http://www.presentationbundle.com/powerpoint-slides-bundle Official site: http://www.presentationbundle.com/ Robin Good: If you consider, like I do, "infographics" as visual presentation tools, I strongly suggest you to browse through this excellent slideshow by Robin Richards, which provides an overview of why infographics are important, gives a glimpse of their history, application and creation and gives a good insight on what makes them truly effective.
Recommended. 9/10
Original presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/ripetungi/why-are-infographics-important
Via Stefanos Karagos Robin Good: TargetMap is a free web service that allows you to create and customize professional-looking data-maps with any country or area in the world. Maps created with TargetMap (satellite, physical, hybrid, etc:) can utilize excel-formatted data, can be color-coded and customized manually, or specific data can be input in them. The user can also leverage existing public maps for the creation and customization of new ones. Final maps can be exported as images, embedded in your web site or blog or shared directly to Facebook and Twitter. Three options are available for your maps: shareable, not shareable and private/business. The first two options are free and the third one starts at $49/month. Free shareable maps do not support the zip code field. Find out more: http://www.targetmap.com/ 
CanvasDropr provides a virtually infinite online canvas on which you and your friends / contacts can easily add, position, resize and rotate photos and video clips at will. From the official site: "The center of the CanvasDropr idea is to work and collaborate on a so-called "Canvas". The canvas can be shared by an unlimited amount of people, and changes made in the canvas are updated real-time in every user’s canvas. Users can easily drag and drop new images directly from their desktop onto the canvas." CanvasDrops allows you to text chat in real-time with other "collaborators" you have invited as well as to set permissions for what "public" users can edit or modify on a "public canvas. It is possible to place photos and video clips coming from Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa or to import one simply by providing its URL. The final canvas can be shared on FB or Twitter, downloaded as an "image" or a .zip file containing all of its images and can also be "embedded" on any site or blog. The service is free to use. Check this video: http://vimeo.com/31591478 or you can try it immediately with no need for signup if you alrady have a Twitter or facebook account: http://www.canvasdropr.com/Signup.aspx Robin Good: The video opening titles for Museum140 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObLiikJEt94) have been created with a new tool that leverages the power of HTML5 to achieve results that are identical to those that you can achieve with Prezi, the alternative presentation tool. Though Impress.js remains for now a tool for geeks and people who can use code, Impress.js heralds the upcoming legion of HTML5 presentation tools that will be likely start to rapidly grow in 2012. Text, images and graphic elements can be easily positioned on a virtually infinite canvas in which they can be easily scaled, resized and positioned at will. Even a 3D rendering effect is available. Sample presentation: http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored
Source code: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js 
Presentation Marker is a Windows-only downloadable software utility which makes it easy to highlight, amrk-up, annotate and draw on any computer screen, on top of what is already being displayed. Presentation Marker integrates among others: - Text tool - Arrow pointer - Pen brush - Shapes - Magnification lens - Spotlight - Clock - Screen capture Find out more: http://www.presentation-assistant.com/pmarker/index.htm A free 30-day trial is available here: http://www.presentation-assistant.com/download/presentationmarker.exe A full version, usable on three different PCs costs $19.95: http://www.presentation-assistant.com/pmarker/register.htm
Robin Good: Slidestaxx is a web-based service which allows anyone to easily create a shareable and embeddable visual slide-show by selecting and bringing together existing images, video clips, web sites and other content already available online. My take: I like the idea of being able to produce presentations that contain properly "credited" third party content, but it would be even better to have these functionality integrated in your existing favorite presentation tool rather than elsewhere. I think that this curation-presentation format suffers from the natural constraints of how we look at presentations. One slide at a time. I think that any curated-format benefits from providing the possibility to see both the detail and the larger picture and in this case I feel that the ability to see the presentation, also as an album, woud greatly benefit the value and benefits of this tool. The service is free to use. See a few examples: http://www.slidestaxx.com/about-slidestaxx Find out more: http://www.slidestaxx.com/ (Reviewed by Robin Good) Sanwa has recently announced the availability of a slim mini portable projector that works in combination with your iPhone 4 or 4S. 
GoView is a screencasting tool which allows Windows PC users to capture their computer screen in one-click and to easily edit their screencasts. GoView is as simple as it gets. After install, you are provided with a small icon on the bottom right of your screen. When you want to record what you see on your screen with your own audio commentary, you simply select the "Record Screen & Audio" menu selection and you are ready to go. Once the recording is complete GoView provides with a very easy to use interface that simplifies greatly the process of editing and cleaning up the recording. The final edited recording can be then easily saved and shared online with anyone. Free to use. Watch a video demo: http://goview.com/goldwyn/spring/play?method=playerDemo&recordingId=e371b396-a8cb-45ad-a64f-b560586b506b Check out the main features in this introductory illustrated tour: http://goview.com/goldwyn/spring/login?method=tour Sign-up for free: https://goview.com/goldwyn/spring/register?method=register (Reviewed by Robin Good) |
Robin Good: SpiderScribe is a new web-based mindmapping tool which allows you to easily connect notes, images, files, events and even geographic locations. Key features include:
Check this video introduction: http://www.SpiderScribe.net/videos/VideoIntroduction.php Find out more: http://www.SpiderScribe.net/ 
Robin Good: A great new downloadable app allows you to shoot micro-video clips of a second or less and to have them instantly transformed into publishable images called cinemagrams. A few examples here: http://cinemagram.tumblr.com/ (wait until the page has fully loaded)
"Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency — novice to advanced — as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at "nested" levels of geography." Source code also available on GitHub More info: http://flowingdata.com/2012/02/07/weave-for-visualization-development/ Robin Good: iVisit 3D allows you to share and showcase your three-dimensional navigable panorama pictures on any iPhone or iPad. "Developed for architects and designers, iVisit 3D allows users to view panorama renderings on the web." On the App Store you can find both a free version http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/ivisit-3d-lite/id465950816?mt=8 and a full professional one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivisit-3d/id465949093?mt=8 The professional version can read .pno files from Dropbox or other sources you provide and display it fully on your preferred Apple mobile device.
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/ 
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/ 
Robin Good: Here is a great app for visual communicators, presenters and web publishers working on the Mac. Cloud storage services supported: Imgur, Dropbox, Amazon S3, or your own FTP server space. As an additional useful feature, Captured keeps a full visual history of all the screenshots you have taken, facilitating the task of finding older screen grabs. How to use it: http://www.capturedapp.com/how-to-screen-capture-mac.html Recommended. 9/10 Price: $2.99 in the Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=414675451&mt=12 Find out more: http://www.capturedapp.com/ 
PresentationTube provides a video presentation desktop recorder (PC) to record, publish and share quality, accessible, and interactive video presentations. PresentationTube synchronizes presenter's audio and video, PowerPoint slides, whiteboard, drawing board, and Web content. PresentationTube also integrates a vertical thumbnail slider allowing the user to jump through presentation slides while keeping the video in sync. Engagement options in each presentation include a discussion board and a self-assessment quiz. The video part of each presentation can be uploaded to PresentationTube or imported straight from YouTube. Presentations created with PresentationTube can be easily shared across social media networks as well as embedded on any site or blog. Free, with no ads, no banners. Unlimited bandwidth and storage space. Presentation showcase: http://presentationtube.net/index_watch.php Presentation Recorder software (free) for Windows and how to use it tutorial : http://presentationtube.net/index_record.php Find out more: http://presentationtube.net/ (Reviewed by Robin Good) 
Vocaroo is a web-based service which allows you to record your own voice and to publish it online or send it to someone via email. Vocaroo is as simple as it can get. You click on the Record button and hit Stop when you are done. Your recording is immediately available, for email forwarding or for being embedded on any web site. The recording is also available for immediate download in both .WAV and .Ogg audio formats. Vocaroo is in beta and is free to use. FAQ: http://vocaroo.com/faq.php Find put more: http://vocaroo.com 
Slidepoint is a free web-based presentation tool that integrates all of the functions and features o a standard presentation tool. It allows you to create basic presentations using text, graphics, videos and images that make no use of Flash. The basic Slidepoint presentation editor offers all of the basic functionalities you would expect in a slide-show creation tool: - insert list, tables - insert YouTube, video, or questions module - insert audio clip associated to a slide - duplicate slides and objects - front and back order of elements on a slide - font size, style and color choice - alignment of objects - precise positioning - transition effects and actions - and most any other basic function you would expect Each presentation created with SlidePoint can be easily shared on the major four social networks Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Google+ as well as being embedded on any site or blog. Free accounts can create a maximum of 10 presentations and have a free storage space of only 25MB. To gain more storage space or increase the limit of presentations that can be created, Slidepoint uses a reward system, that gives you more point as you perform more activities inside the service. PowerPoint presentations can be imported by utilizing the "Windows only) utility available here: http://www.slidepoint.net/files/ppt_to_slidepoint.net.exe Find out more: http://www.slidepoint.net (Reviewed by Robin Good) 
US investigative journalism news site ProPublica released to the public the code for its timeline tool, allowing all data journalists out there to create beautiful interactive timelines from their spreadsheets.
Sarah Marshall on Journalism.co.uk advises everyone not be scared by the tech stuff behind the tool itself, and encourages to try it out watching these two tutorial videos:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RvJxb8XKzXU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TVrD1TyKcQ8
(Curated by Daniele Bazzano) Via DanieleBazzano 
Logitech has just announced a new type of mouse that is as small as large pencil eraser, has no cables and can act as a perfect remote controller for presenters needing to manage the flow of their slides during a live event. In fact, as the Cube is lifted from any surface on which it was resting, it auto-swtiches to "remote control presentation mode" allowing you to progress through your slide deck with a simple scrolling movement of your finger on it. The tiny Logitech Unifying® receiver connects up to six Unifying-compatible devices with a powerful, reliable wireless connection (up to 25 meters). So the Cube works with your other Logitech Unifying devices without taking up another USB port. Check this video introduction showing how the Cube works: http://youtu.be/AeucWS1Ph4E Pictures of the Cube: http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/4/2683664/logitech-cube-mouse-pictures#2806094 The Cube will be on sale this January for $69.99 Read the full review: http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/4/2683651/logitech-cube-mouse-january-70-dollars Find out more: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/mice/devices/9472 (Curated by Robin Good) |
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