A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #50 – Live from the Microsoft MVP Summit!
We have two amazing things to share about this episode. First, this is the 50th Presentation Podcast episode! Second, we celebrate our 50th anniversary with a presentation and PowerPoint conversation at the Microsoft campus with over a dozen Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs!
The Noun Project is an amazing site for vector icon graphics.
It is also a Microsoft add-in for PowerPoint. This is a web based add-in (vs. local machine install). In PowerPoint, go to the INSERT tab, and click the STORE button.
On the Store tab, search for NOUN PROJECT and install.
On the INSERT tab, the NOUN PROJECT button is available. Click to open the app pan and have instant access to over 1 million icons direct without leaving PowerPoint.
Everyone can access the free version, which are .PNG images, where each slide attribute the icon’s designer and icons are only added to a slide, they cannot be downloaded as separate art files. For TLC Creative we opted for the $40 annual subscription which does not need attribution, external art files can be downloaded and we can choose between SVG and PNG files every time we use. PowerPoint recently added its internal vector icon library (insert > icons), but if a presentation needs to expand beyond these, The Noun Project is something that can be found in many designers toolbox, and now it can be added directly in PowerPoint.
Troy @ TLC
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #49 – What Makes Presentation Slides Beautiful (with Mitch Grasso).
Beauty is subjective, as is slide design, all of which Troy, Nolan, Sandy and this week’s guest, Mitch Grasso, have strong opinions on. As founder of SlideRocket (acquired by VMware in 2011) and now Beautiful.ai (an online presentation design app that launched February 6, 2018), Mitch adds great insights into presentation design. Like TV shows that use a news headline for an episode storyline, we take Mitch’s new company name, and its mission, as our conversation topic and discuss what makes a beautiful presentation.
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #48 – Giving and Getting Feedback.
There is an art to design project feedback, and often the success or failure of a project rests entirely on being able to give, and receive, feedback effectively. On this episode, Troy, Nolan, and Sandy focus on design feedback – for both the client and the designer.
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #47 – Playing with 3D Models in PowerPoint.
Support for 3D model file formats are a new option for PowerPoint. 3D models and 3D Perspective design are different. In this Presentation Podcast conversation, Troy, Nolan and Sandy talk about using 3D Models as PowerPoint slide content and if 3D Models are a novelty, a fad, or a design trend.
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #46 – Share the Stage with Your Slides (Sally Koering Zimney).
Join an amazing conversation about how presenters can share the stage with their slides, interact with them, while still engaging with the audience, and “share the Con.” Sally Zimney from the “This Moved Me” podcast, and a professional presentation coach joins the conversation, offering some great advise for every presenter, and presentation designer.
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #45 – Things to Check Before Presenting.
Sandy, Nolan and Troy are presenters themselves, they work with presenters every week, and have experienced many presentation technical issues, this podcast offers a compilation of things every presenter should check before presenting.
Happy New Year! Let’s start 2018 with a hack to easily see your internet connection speed.
This is a Bing search engine trick, that does not work in Google or any other search engine (as of today). One of the first things I do when at a hotel or working backstage is to run a speed test to know what my internet connection is (which then lets me estimate how long client downloads will take, how many people I am good to share internet access with, etc.). Speedtest.net, powered by Ookla is the most accurate and reliable speed test I have found. I have their app on my mobile devices and their site bookmarked in my browser.
But things are even easier, if using the Bing search engine (does not matter what browser app; Edge, Chrome, Firefox – desktop or mobile versions). Open a Bing search page:
In the search field type “Speedtest ookla” and an inline app is the top search result! Just click start and get current internet connection speed results directly in the search results page.
Troy @ TLC
2017 has been a very good year here at TLC Creative Services. Throughout December we did a series on our Facebook page “Top 10 TLC Moments of 2017.” Here is a quick video version counting down all 10 moments!
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #44 – Year-End Thoughts.
The 24th episode of The Presentation Podcast is the final conversation of 2017! Troy, Nolan and Sandy end the year with a great conversation about the big things that influenced their design, studios, and presentation software use this past year.