http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog PowerPoint Design Specialists Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:01:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ignite Sydney 2010 was a great success. The speeches were engaging, well delivered and highly visual – the crowd also played a great role  joining in and enjoying the night. We loved working with the presenters and host Stephen Lead and were very excited about the people we met and ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2010/03/04/sydney-kick-global-ignite-week-bang/ The countdown is on for the much anticipated Ignite Sydney 4 event, being held here in Sydney at Oxford Art Factory on Tuesday 2nd March. This is part of the bigger ‘Global Ignite Week’ event where 40+ cities around the globe each host their own Ignite event at the same time. We ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2010/02/19/ready-ignite/ I recently heard this great analogy describing how your font should function as a ‘crystal goblet’ in your marketing/presentation material. In the sense that the font type should act like a transparent vessel that holds, shapes and organizes your information without being a feature in itself. In saying this, it is a well ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2010/02/04/helveticas-revolution/ One of the most informative and captivating annual wrap-ups for me has to be from 'Most Contagious Magazine'. This year, they have included the most contagious ideas in everything from design to branded applications, from technology to real time media.  One of my favourites is the MIT Media Lab application that featured ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2009/12/22/wrap-2/ We have all had to sit through them and we sometimes wish we could be somewhere else, crossing things off our ever growing ‘to do’ lists. Nevertheless PowerPoint presentations are inextricably linked into everyday business life, so how can we make sure that our presentations connect with the audience from ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2009/12/08/making-slides-count/ A fantastic new LIVE tool for presentations has just been released: Tweets in real-time, embedded directly within your presentation. Use it for; A live audience voting device, A live text/comment tool or to receive audience feedback, Crowd meter - measuring the noise level in the room to determine an outcome on a choice. All using mobile ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2009/10/18/live-twitter-powerpoint-presentation/ PowerPoint is celebrating 25 years of presentations - since 1984 when the first brief was developed for an overhead projection tool. It is estimated that PowerPoint holds 95% of the presentation software market with over 500 million users worldwide. Love it or hate it - we all have to sit through it... ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2009/08/27/powerpoint-25-years/ The new release is looking very cool. Check out the awesome features such as turning your presentation into a video and even burning a DVD! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJ1X_bl42U http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2009/08/19/powerpoint-2010-release-coming/ For great tips on presenting from one of the worlds elite centres of learning have a look at the following link from Massachusetts Institute of Technology...of all places! http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html www.presentationstudio.com.au http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2009/06/17/tips-on-presentation-from-mit/ Is there a really a feel good side to PowerPoint I hear you cry? YES, there sure is... We love what we do and it gives us great satisfaction to assist groups that would otherwise struggle to get their messages out there. Don’t panic, this is not a sanctimonious lecture ... http://www.presentationstudio.com.au/blog/2009/06/12/the-%e2%80%9cfluffy-feel-good%e2%80%9d-side-of-powerpoint/