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“Hello, Tech Support. Yes, I have a problem, my blog is now offline!”

Well as you may have noticed, ThePowerPointBlog went offline for over a week. I moved TLC Creative Services to the new Microsoft Office 365 for the exchange email, SharePoint and Lync features. The first few days down accounted for the time needed to figure out how to change over the DNS settings to maintain the TLCCreative.com website at the same hosting (eg. I did not want to use the Microsoft website design option, just the backoffice features). After that was resolved, it was only then that I discovered sub-domains are not supported by Office 365 (at least on the plan subscribed to). So now ThePowerPointBlog is on its own dedicated domain and no longer a sub-domain of tlccreative.com.

What does this mean to everyone? For general reading and searching for old posts, nothing, it is all the same. But if you have bookmarked or linked to any specfic post over the past 6 years, those links will no longer work… I am incredibly sorry for that inconvienence. The only difference is the URL to access things:
Old = https://pptblog.tlccreative.com/bloglink
New = https://thepowerpointblog.com/bloglink

Now, on to updating the blog posts to catch up!

– Troy @ TLC

Hello, Tech Support. Yes, I have a problem, none of my blog posts have shown up…

Happily, it is very busy here at TLC Creative Services. But I am not happy with the blog. I setup 2 weeks of posts that everyone should have been enjoying while I bury myself in presentation design, new office build out and other design tasks. But apparently you have to click the “publish” button to make those spooled up posts show up on the days they are suppose to! Sorry, my oversight. The good news is between the posts that did not show up, the new ones I have been working on, and the great upcoming events I have the next two months of posts covered! I will reorganize things and start the process (again) tomorrow.

– Troy @ TLC

This is the digital signage at a recent show. It was updated every morning with the attendee schedule for that day. There were a number of these 52″ plasma screens outside each ballroom entrance, all displaying a PPT slide.

But designing these slides is a bit challenging. The plasma screen is rotated, but the computer still sees a horizontal 1920×1080 display. The solution is to create a sideways slide, as Lori is skillfully doing.

– Troy @ TLC

This was a much bigger production over previous posts with my graphics tech area backstage with a several other tech departments. My department and five computers are highlighted by the red line.

– Troy @ TLC

This recent show was another where I was “front of house” (where the tech area is in the audience area, facing the stage). You can see my 3 show computers in the foreground and the fantastic staging design and work of the lighting director.

– Troy @ TLC

Just a quick photo of a recent show, I was onsite leading the onscreen graphics/presentations.

– Troy @ TLC

It’s summer time – and I would like to say this is what my days look like:

But the reality is a little of the above with some precious time with my kids during summer break and a lot of the below. Just lots of lists with design projects, new clients (yeah!), getting the new TLC Creative Services office building up and running, and more.

Get ready for July! There is a full month of blog posts almost all there and a list of blog post ideas I have been accumulating for awhile that will keep things going!

– Troy @ TLC