Resource/Misc

2019 Presentation Summit (Location and Dates)

The Presentation Summit 2019 – Dates are reserved on my calendar!

Lori and I had a fantastic time at the 2018 presentation Summit hosted in San Diego, CA. Just putting out advance notice, the 2019 Presentation Summit website officially announces the location and dates for next year. Lori and I will be attending, hopefully presenting again and would enjoy seeing you there!

Website: https://www.betterpresenting.com/summit/

Who: 200+ attendees, 20 presenters, 14 Microsoft “PowerPoint” MVPs, a number of Microsoft PowerPoint developers and PMs, and representatives from many presentation industry companies

When: October 6-9, 2019

Where: San Antonio, TX 

 

Troy @ TLC

By |2019-01-31T14:33:21-08:00October 17th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #64 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with a group of international presentation designers gathered together to talk about PowerPoint, what they see in presentation use and design, and lots of  random topics. Join the conversation with Troy, Nolan, Glen Millar (from Brisbane, Australia), Chantal Bosse (from Quebec, Canada), Tom Howell – Mark and Sam (from Synapsis Creative in Sydney, Australia).

Episode, #64 – PowerPoint International Perspectives

 

By |2018-10-16T06:30:25-07:00October 16th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #63 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #63- Live From the 2018 Presentation Summit 

This episode is a live conversation recorded at the 2018 Presentation Summit in San Diego California. We gathered around a table and just the let conversation flow – so enjoy a fantastic everything presentation conversation among 10 presentation industry experts!

By |2018-10-01T07:34:27-07:00October 2nd, 2018|Resource/Misc|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #61 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #61 – PowerPoint Shortcuts – Here’s What We Found.

Join a great conversation with Troy, Sandra and Nolan sharing “PowerPoint Shortcuts”, including keyboard shortcuts, right-click tricks, app setup, faster design, better presenting and anything else that helps us get more done quicker, better or professionally.

By |2018-09-04T13:46:52-07:00September 4th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

NXPowerLite Blog (and Troy Chollar Quote)

NXPowerlite is a great app that TLC Creative Services has made use of for several years. The  current version, Desktop 8, was the biggest release for new features. I was happily asked to contribute input and ideas as the Neuxpower team was busy strategizing the big release. On a recent Neuxpower blog they talked about the Custom Profiles and to my surprise, I was a part of the blog!

Check out the blog post here.

Troy @ TLC

By |2018-08-19T14:48:59-07:00September 3rd, 2018|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Windows 10 Mobile Hot Spot

The ability to turn a Windows 10 computers into a WiFi hotspot by sharing its internet connection, either wired or wireless!, is an amazingly useful feature. It requires some advance setup, then it is always available.

Go to WINDOWS & SETTINGS

Select NETWORK & INTERNET

On the left select MOBILE HOTSPOT

TURN ON, confirm Wi-Fi (not Bluetooth) is selected, and click EDIT

In the Network Info and add a NETWORK NAME (anything you want; Troys WiFi, Secret WiFi Do Not Connect, etc.) and a PASSWORD (something unique, you may share it with others)

Now the computer is ready to share its internet connection! Click the NOTIFICATIONS icon in the lower right and select MOBILE HOTSPOT

Now on any device (Windows, Mac, phone, tablet, etc.) look for you WiFi SSD and connect!

Troy @ TLC

 

By |2019-01-31T14:33:44-08:00August 24th, 2018|Resource/Misc, Tutorial|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #60 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast is available today! Listen to episode #60 – Do You ARS? (with John Cosgrove of VoiceHive and Ben Anderson).

Audience Response System, or A-R-S, is a great process of involving an audience in a presentation. It is a way for a presenter, a meeting, or even a classroom to get real-time input from the audience, and display everyone’s answers. For our conversation about ARS we are joined by John Cosgrove of VoiceHive and Ben Andersson as meeting ARS specialist. We talk about software we use, ways we added audience interaction, and ideas for presenters to integrate audience interaction into a presentation.

By |2018-08-18T10:16:13-07:00August 21st, 2018|Resource/Misc|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #59 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #59 – What is Round-Tripping Video?

Video round-tripping in PowerPoint is like the movie inception, where we figure out everything is a dream, inside of a dream, that is possibly inside of another dream… this is creating content in PowerPoint, that is exported to video, and then that video become part of the PowerPoint content, or a slide with a video of PowerPoint content with other PowerPoint content. It is crazy stuff you can do with PowerPoint, and Troy, Sandy and Nolan have a great design studio conversation all about it!

By |2018-08-06T19:10:33-07:00August 7th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

New Old Stock

New Old Stock 1

New Old Stock aggregates and displays images from Flickr with most (if not all) images being under the Creative Commons License (author assumes). Author also creates photo packs that are for sale. The images are amazing, and sometimes exactly what is needed for a presentation! The downside is the search options, whicr are very limited (and frustrating).

You can download the image by clicking on it, and it will open the image in a lightbox the image can be saved with a right-click. Tip: the title of the image on the main page is a link to the original Flickr library where the image was posted.

New Old Stock 2

There is a search option in the upper left which is helpful since there are no categories or any other organization. It’s not clear on how often a new image is posted.

Here is a sample of some of the images available:

New Old Stock 3

 

By |2018-07-20T08:53:46-07:00July 30th, 2018|Resource/Misc|
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