http://extra.slidebay.com Having Something to Say, and Saying it Well Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:23:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On my new site dedicated to Google Chrome, I have a peek at SlideRocket.com -- at least an indication from a week of testing that SlideRocket is working even in beta, even on the beta Chrome. This is great news for anyone who wants portable, ubiquitous access to a truly ... http://extra.slidebay.com/sliderocket-preview/ Ron LaPorte and a dedicated team run the SuperCourse, a resource that I have long used and admired. He writes this text in an effort to recruit contributors and users. I am only too happy to reproduce his material here -- a worthy cause and a most useful resource for ... http://extra.slidebay.com/interested-in-global-health/ Slidebay.com image search already offers an easy interface to look for interesting pictures to insert in your presentations. These images are all licensed under a Creative Commons agreement and are selected especially to be 'interesting' and 'safe', meaning that you will like most of the pictures without scrolling through endless ... http://extra.slidebay.com/slidebay-image-search-is-now-zotero-ready/ A USB drive hangs from a lanyard around every good presenter's neck. These high-capacity devices can become the presenter’s survival kit, a suite of applications that make it easy to replicate most of the functions one can perform on the home desktop or on the laptop. I have a set ... http://extra.slidebay.com/10-uses-for-a-presenters-usb-drive/ At some point you will be needing to show one of the senses of 'power' in a presentation. Using the WordNet list of meanings of power for inspiration, I looked up a selection of Creative Commons licensed images on Flickr.com that you might want to consider. And here is the ... http://extra.slidebay.com/images-of-power/ The Challenge You want to insert a video into your presentation. Why do you need to do this? Maybe you want to play some music while the audience is entering the room and settling in. Or you want to insert a moment of humour mid-presentation. You might want to demonstrate a short procedure directly ... http://extra.slidebay.com/convert-youtube-videos-for-powerpoint/ At some point in your career you are going to present to an audience that collectively deserves your gratitude. But where to start? What is the right balance? How will you do it? We usually end presentations with a Thank-You-for-Your-Attention slide. Yet often their attention is not the only reason we ... http://extra.slidebay.com/thanking-the-audience/ I have just discovered this: Alexei Kapterev made it Over 100,000 people viewed it on Slideshare Michael Byatt blogged about it Lifehacker.com passed it on I devoured it and am spreading the meme. Here it is, the single must-see presentation-about-making-presentations. Sixty-one slides, four key points, one essential manual. Click the next button and you ... http://extra.slidebay.com/a-slideshow-to-end-death-by-powerpoint/ The best blog on presentations on my regular reading list is Garr Reynolds' Presentation Zen. He combines design, technology, and skills in delivery in a series of short articles that are always practical and full of insight. He is currently finishing his book, aptly entitled Presentation Zen, so his posts are ... http://extra.slidebay.com/zen-and-the-slideshow/ PowerPoint presentations get bloated when you add some pictures to them. This slows down transfer, hampers emailing, and quickly clogs your hard disk if you are a frequent presenter. There is an easy way to quickly reduce the file size. The video is less than two minutes long and thoroughly ... http://extra.slidebay.com/compressing-powerpoint-presentations/