Presentasjonsnettverket

På disse sidene legges det ut møtereferater, lenkelister, tips og opplæringsvideoer. Vi inviterer også til en åpen diskusjon om alt som har med presentasjoner og Powerpoint å gjøre.

Her er en interessant opplisting fra bloggen No Secret om noen av de interessante nyhetene i Powerpoint 2010. (Minner om at programmet kan lastes ned gratis.)

I’ve been working with the Microsoft Office 2010 beta for a few months. Like many, I’ve been wondering, what do you do to enhance products that are already chock-full of features?

PowerPoint struck me as a tough one to add value to; I’m a regular speaker who builds very complex graphics-based slides, and PPT 2007 has worked really well. (I’m proud to say that the deck for my presentation in NYC Wednesday contains only a single slide with bullet points, a list of takeaways on the final slide.) Still, they’ve added a number of things that make it a “must” upgrade for me.

Perhaps surprisingly, there are also a few items that enhance it for relatively inexperienced users who just want to make their presentations a bit better.

So here are ten high-value items new to PowerPoint 2010:

1. Embedded video. Now, when you put video into your presentation and then move it to another machine, the video moves with it.
2. Fine-grained control over complex animations. Most PPT animations are not worth the bits they’re printed on, but if used well they can really clarify a point. Now you can make motion-type animations, such as moving an object along a path, a lot smoother. This is pretty nitpicky stuff… unless you really sweat over your presentations, which I do. I hate stuff that breaks the illusion and calls attention to the presentation itself, and this new feature lets me avoid some “corners” that I never felt comfortable with.
3. Save presentation as video. Use your presentation to create an actual playback video. You can even add narrations and timings.
4. Create sections of files, akin to headings in a Word doc. Now in a long PPT, you can find the individual parts easily. This feature is especially useful when people collaborate on a presentation. Given that PPT is often used in business for creating reports, businesses will find it a lot easier to pull these together from multiple people. (Is PPT the best way to present this info? That’s a different question. Nevertheless, like bullet points, this is a common usage, and PPT 2010 has improved the experience.)
5. Include video from YouTube or other online sites. Now you can include YACV (yet another cats video) in your presentation… or even some useful content. You do need a live Internet link to run the video — which makes sense in terms of copyright.
6. Place titles and other objects on top of video. Video used to run on top of everything else. Now you can add titles, pointers and arrows, and other objects in the standard bring-forward/send-backward manner. (You can also put the video in a non-rectangular frame.)
7. Video controls — brightness, contrast, recoloring — akin to what you can do with pictures.
8. Remove background from a picture. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough for most people on many pictures. For years, I’ve been doing this by the very complex method of drawing a closed Bezier curve around the object (that’s the tool that looks like a square with some rounded chunks taken out, called “freeform”); clicking Edit Points to adjust the curves to fit the object better; copy (Ctrl+C) the picture; right click the outline you drew and select Format Shape; select Picture Fill and Fill from Clipboard; trim as needed with the Offset controls. I still have to do that on complex pictures, but I’ve found I can nail about half of them using the new Remove Background feature, a huge timesaver. (Wednesday’s presentation has about 25 pictures from which I’ve cut out the background, from a watch replacing the head on a $500 bill — hourly billing! — to a stamp that says “Done” to a plate with a pretzel. You’ve got to come to the seminar if you want to know how a plate with a pretzel illustrates the concept of managing scope.)
9. Better cropping tool, which “ghosts” the cropped part of the image as you work, so you can see what you’re cutting out as well as what you’re leaving in.
10. Trim and fade video and audio. No longer do you need a separate editor to cut the end off a video, or fade it in or out.

There are 50 or more new features that add value.

As always, few people other than professional designers will use every feature. However, each user works with a different feature set; that’s why there are so many features in these kinds of programs. The trick is to (a) find the features that make sense for what you’re doing and (b) when you think, “I wish I could do that,” it’s ever more likely that you can do that.

Du kan lese hele bloggposten her: http://noccrit.com/Steveblog/2010/03/ten-good-things-new-in-powerpoint-2010/

I følge en spørreundersøkelse som nettopp er utført i USA er det teknisk utstyr som er den største utfordringen for alle som holder Powerpoint-presentasjoner.

Undersøkelsen er utført av Jim Endicotts firma Distinction Communications, og resultatene diskuteres bredt på firmaets web-side.

I følge undersøkelsen er dette de fem øverst rangerte utfordringene i forbindelse med presentasjoner:

#1  Presentation technologies don’t always work as advertised
#2   No time to actually practice delivering the presentation
#3   The time it takes to create the slide presentation
#4   Collaborating with others in creating and delivering the presentation
#5   Getting feedback to know if people actual “got” the presentation

Dette er altså resultater fra USA, men mange kjenner seg sikkert igjen i Norge også..?

Resultatene fra hele undersøkelsen kan leses her.

“Animation and Video in PowerPoint — Advanced Techniques” er tema for et webinar som arrangeres 27. januar. Kursholder er Ellen Finkelstein, og du kan lese mer om seminaret her: http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/estore/training_webinar_advanced_animation_and_video.html

Få tips om Powerpoint fra Microsoft via blog

Microsoft tilbyr nå mye informasjon og tips via flere websider, og man kan lære mye av å følge med på deres meldinger på sosiale medier som blogger, Twitter og Facebook.

Her er noen lenker:
The Microsoft Powerpoint Team Blog
Microsoft Office på Twitter
Powerpoint på Facebook

Det er nå mulig å laste ned den helt nye versjonen av Office-pakken: Office 2010. Pakken inkluderer Powerpoint 2010, som har en rekke forbedringer og nyheter i forhold til tidligere versjoner.

BETA-versjonen kan lastes ned her.

Flere av nyhetene i Powerpoint 2010 demonstreres i disse videofilmene:

Nancy Duarte – som blant annet har laget presentasjoner for Al Gore, Adobe og Apple – har nylig holdt 1 times webcast med tips om presentasjoner. Opptaket kan sees her: http://www.safaribooksonline.com/Corporate/DownloadAndResources/webcastInfo.php?page=slideology&ls=Webcasts .

Nancy Duarte er en populær foredragsholder, her fra PowerpointLive-seminaret i San Diego i 2008. (Foto: Kjell Brataas)

Web-opptaket tar utgangspunkt i Duartes bok “slide:ology”, som vi også anbefaler.

Beskrivelse fra Safari Books: Presentation software requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology offers practical approaches that combine conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world’s leading brands.

Attend this 60-minute webcast with Nancy Duarte, principle of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Steve Jobs om presentasjoner

Det har nylig kommet ut en bok som antagelig vil være nyttig for alle som jobber med presentasjoner, enten det er for private firmaer eller departementer. Boken har tittelen The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, og er skrevet at kommunikasjonsrådgiver og journalist i Business Week  Carmine Gallo. I følge reklamen for boken: “Gallo reveals the techniques that have turned the Apple CEO into one of the world’s most extraordinary communicators. ”

Business Week har satt sammen 15 slides med hovedpunkter: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0929_jobs_presentations/index.htm 

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0929_jobs_presentations/index.htm

Årets PowerpointLive-seminar er avsluttet, og etter hvert vil det nok dukke opp flere referater og reportasjer fra arrangementet i Atlanta.

For de som er interessert kan man se en Twitter-feed om seminaret her.

Et kort referat fra seminaret kan leses her.

Vi kan for øvrig allerede nå røpe at neste års seminar – som er omdøpt til The Presentation Summit vil finne sted i San Diego 17. – 20. oktober 2010. Mer informasjon på Ricks web-side.

Microsoft har nylig lansert en fan-side på Facebook med en rekke tips om bruk av programmet. Her er en enkel oppskrift for å bli fan av Powerpoint:

If you already have a Facebook account, sign in, and then follow these simple steps:

1.      Visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/#/pages/Microsoft-PowerPoint/80007646730?ref=sgm

2.      Near the top of the page, click .

Rick Altmans seminar PowerpointLive introduserer i år såkalt “buddy discount”, som vil si at deltakere som aldri har vært med tidligere kan få en spesialpris på USD 149 for seminaret. Fra web-siden — kan vi lese at..:

We know how much of a strain the recession is placing on travel and training budgets and we want to keep PowerPoint Live as accessible as possible. From now until the end of August, when you register for PPTLive, you can introduce a friend or colleague to the conference for just $149.

All the seminars, the workshops, the networking, the Help Center, the meals, the parties…all for less than $150.

Mer info: http://www.betterppt.com/powerpoint_live/buddies.htm#ixzz0O2qFujR1