Welcome to the 2022 Microsoft MVP Summit! This year the Summit is once again a virtual event leveraging Microsoft Teams for all sessions. As has become tradition, a group of PowerPoint MVPs have gathered for this episode to talk PowerPoint, Microsoft, and fun – join us!
Listen here.
Next week, April 7-8, 2022 is the Present to Succeed conference! Listed as the “biggest online presentation skills conference.” It has a great line up of presenters and a great price – plus all sessions are available for on-demand replay (to registered attendees) for 30 days with the Standard access price, and lifetime for the higher access options.
2022 will be my second time being a part of the presenting team! This year my talk is in the “Presentation Tools” category and titled “9 Powerful Business Presenter PowerPoint Template Tips”.
Get details and register at the conference website.
TIP: the conference agenda is listed in CET time zone – Central European Time. For me, in California, that means the live sessions are 12:00am – 9:00am (making me happy about the on-demand replay!)
Troy @ TLC
Presentation design work is often developing a PowerPoint template as a standalone project or developing a PowerPoint template that is then used for the presentation design phase. On this episode, Troy & Lori, the co-founders of TLC Creative Services, Inc. chat about PowerPoint template design projects they have each recently completed.
New podcast episode released today. “Before the Mic” is a new book in the presentation space. It focuses on the presentation message and structure – everything that needs to happen before the presenter is ‘before the microphone’ and presenting. This episode Troy, Sandy and Nolan talk with Glenn Gibson, author of “Beyond the Mic” for a very fun, very informative conversation!
Today is the day – join The Presentation Guild, Ask Microsoft Anything event!
Everyone is welcome (live stream view for all, be in the meeting room with the Microsoft team for Presentation Guild members).
2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Standard Time zone
Login opens at 1:00pm EST
Go to the event here: PresentationGuildEvents.com
(and shameless promo – this event is being hosted on the TLC Creative Services, VXP Meeting platform)
Troy @ TLC
Head to The Presentation Podcast and listen to Troy, Nolan and Sandy discuss the expenses; things to buy, to subscribe to, things to just have to be a presentation designer. We are listing off the many expenses we have to plan for to run our businesses, and the costs of being a presentation designer!
I am uncertain if Pantone created this PowerPoint file or if Microsoft created it, but everyone can download a Pantone 2022 Color of the Year inspired PowerPoint template on the Microsoft Office Templates site here.
It is a set of PowerPoint slides with some slide layouts and image treatments.
The file has 4 separate Master Slides, each with one of the Pantone Very Peri inspired color schemes. But I cannot call this a “template” as it is missing too many of the fundamentals that make a PowerPoint template, a template. Aside from missing all standard layouts, each master slide is void of any styling and preset layouts that trickle down to master layouts for the master slide.
The TLC Creative design team has taken up the Pantone 2022 Color of the Year, Very Peri and developed 4 full feature PowerPoint templates, one per Pantone color scheme. Standby, each will be a free download over the next few weeks of posts!
Troy @ TLC
Pantone’s color of the year for 2022 is VERY PERI. Technically it is Pantone #17-3938, described as “A New Pantone Color Whose Courageous Presence Encourages Personal Inventiveness and Creativity.”
The TLC Creative Services design team agrees Very Peri is a winner and will be great for use in slide, and template design!
Even the big companies have adopted Very Peri for 2022. Check out Microsoft’s Windows 11 “Windows Bloom” re-imagined using the Pantone Color of the Year 2022 (available here).
Visit the Very Peri official page on the Pantone site here.
Eyeful Presentations recently released a new presentation industry report, “The NEW New Normal – Hybrid Presentations.” This episode of The Presentation Podcast, Troy Chollar has opportunity to talk with Simon, Jack and Alex from Eyeful Presentations about their report and hear some additional insights into the topic of hybrid presentations. Listen to the conversation here.
Do not miss this amazing opportunity to be in the same room with the Microsoft PowerPoint team! The Presentation Guild’s “Ask Microsoft Anything” event is open to everyone to view. Guild members can enter the meeting room direct (chat and ask questions direct to the Microsoft team)!
The Presentation Guild “promotes the presentation design and production industry as a profession, recognizes the skills and expertise of presentation creation specialists, and provides opportunities for members to expand their knowledge and abilities.”
Click the button below for more information and pre-register at the Presentation Guild.
Go direct to the meeting platform here.
Event Date: Thursday, February 17 @ 11am PST | 2:00pm EST.