A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #69 – The Presentation Design Brief
Every new presentation design project begins with gathering details – the Presentation Design Brief. Troy, Sandra and Nolan talk about what format these each use for their Design Briefs, along with what information is captured for presentation makeover projects.
Designing presentations and being a presenter require a base level of A/V knowledge to be a professional. One area of knowledge is knowing how your computer, with your amazing presentation, is going to connect to the video system so everyone can see the presentation. TLC Creative has put together a primer (ie. simple list) of all common video connectors used today, cable and port it connects to:
1. VGA
2. HDMI (most common)
3. DVI (legacy, but still great)
4. Full Size Displayport (our favorite connector)
5. Mini-displayport (also thunderbolt) (new, very common, and easy to become disconnected)
6. USB-C (aka, thunderbolt 3)
Troy @ TLC
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #67 – There are no Mistakes (With Travis Thomas)
Presenting is a skill, an art, an act of being courageous and being the focus to a live audience. But, the secret is, the audience does not know your slides, your talking points or what you are going to say. Join an amazing conversation where Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by Travis Thomas, author and improv comedian, as we talk about how presenters, like an onstage comedian, need to continue presenting like there are no mistakes – because the audience only knows it was a mistake if you tell them.
Join me (Troy Chollar) today at the Presentation Ideas Conference – it is FREE and a virtual online conference HERE.
I am presenting today (November 28, 2018) at 11:00 AM (PST). My talk is all about “ultrawide” PowerPoint presentations, covering not only insights into the design process, but the technical how-to’s of developing super wide, super size presentations!
Website: https://www.presentationpoint.com/presentation-ideas-conference/
When: November 28-29, 2018
Cost: Completely free!
Speakers:
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #66 – Scope Creep and the Boiling Frog.
This is a re-post from earlier this year, originally posted on June 08, 2018.
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The Master Slide is where as presentation designers we try to keep clients away from. But as a designer, this is a fantastic shortcut to accessing the master slide!
As example, we want to change the background color across all slides. Easy, just update the Master Slide. The typical way of doing this is View > Slide Master and the Master Slide view opens with that layout selected.
However, we need to change the background color on the Master Slide, not the Master Layout. So now we need to scroll up and select the Master slide at the top. Too many steps for a busy presentation designer!
A quick and easy shortcut to achieve going directly to the Master Slide is to hold SHIFT + DOUBLE-CLICK on the NORMAL VIEW icon in the lower right bar.
This is will automatically open the master to the top slide where you can quickly update all slide backgrounds.
Here it is in action, 1 click (okay a double-click) access to the Slide Master.
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Troy @ TLC
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #65 – Updating Sandy on the 2018 Presentation Summit
Join Troy, Nolan and Sandra for a post-Presentation Summit conversation as Troy and Nolan update Sandy on their key take-aways and stories of the conference.
Just a bit of Halloween fun in her spare time (thanks Christie!) with this animation creation!
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Mike Parkinson, a Microsoft MVP for PowerPoint, has a new book available; A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint!
The subtitle “Best Practices For Master Presenters” is almost misleading in that it seems to limit the scope of this great resource. This is 180 pages of professional tip, after professional tip – and it is as much about presentation design as it is about presenting. The book is officially divided into 3 sections; Discovery (identify the presentation goal), Design (create the presentation), and Delivery (present). BUT, the Design section could easily be 2 or 3 sections. It has fantastic tips on developing the presentation content storyline (very different from designing the actual slides) and then a huge number of design tips (developing the actual slides in PowerPoint).
Not bragging, but on a recent visit to Washington, DC, Lori and I spent an afternoon with Mike and Jen Parkinson, and received an autographed copy of “A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint”!
Check it out here at Amazon.
Troy @ TLC
Presentation Ideas Conference 2018 is happening soon!
PresentationPoint makes some amazing software to use PowerPoint to control digital signage (and more). They are sponsoring an upcoming online presentation conference that has a lot of great topics, information, and is FREE to register to attend!
TLC Creative’s Troy Chollar will be presenting at this year’s Conference 2018 November 28th at 11:00 AM (PST). Troy is bringing examples of recent “ultrawide” PowerPoint projects for “Really, Really BIG PowerPoint (Screen Size, not File Size)” talk and covering not only insights into the design process, but the technical how-to’s of developing an ultrawide PowerPoint file.
Website: https://www.presentationpoint.com/presentation-ideas-conference/
When: November 28-29, 2018
Cost: Completely free! Just register online to receive updates and reminders leading up to the event.
Speakers: