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Year-End Thoughts (Episode 44)

2017 was big for the presentation industry, and it was the first full year of The Presentation Guild being an industry association. Listen to Sandy and team share their thoughts!...

Share the Stage with Your Slides (with Sally Koering Zimney) (Episode 46)

Let’s start with a presentation scenario, a fictitious setting for our presenters: Full stage, professional audio with a lavaliere mic, remote/clicker – computer is backstage, large 16×9 screen either directly behind you or off-stage Left/Right with rear projection  Nolan: Well, you’ve already pointed out a significant factor...

Live from the 2018 Microsoft MVP Summit (Episode 50)

The Presentation Podcast gathered over a dozen PowerPoint experts for a live conversation at the 2018 Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle, Washington. Join a group conversation on all things PowerPoint and presentation!...

PowerPoint Add-ins We Like (Episode 51)

Add-ins, third party apps that make design time faster by automating tasks and enabling PowerPoint to do more than it is capable of are something every professional presentation designer should take advantage of. Troy, Nolan, and Sandy talk about add-ins they use and see others...

A Conversation with PPT Add-In Developers (Part 1) (Episode 52)

Questions answered during this conversation: What is one of the most popular add-ins you have developed (or most popular feature within an add-in set)? PowerPoint supports two programming options, VBA and dotnet. Which, or both, do you work in and what are some plain language...

Colorful Talk About Using Color in PowerPoint (Episode 53)

Color is a major part of presentation design. How a presentation designer goes about using color, both for design and the technical how-to within PowerPoint, have a wide variety approaches. We talk about personal approaches, technical setup and how-to, and using color in presentations in...

A Conversation with PPT Add-in Developers (Part 2) (Episode 54)

This is Part 2 of the PowerPoint add-ins conversation with developers Steve Rindsberg of PPTools, Gil Segal of ToolsToo, and Jamie Garroch of YouPresent (Listen to episode 52 for Part 1 of the conversation). Amongst the great conversation full of insights and tips we cover...