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.
Spotify has been slowly, and selectively, adding podcasts to its library. We are very excited, because our very own podcast, The Presentation Podcast is now available on Spotify! Check us out on Spotify here.
Lori and I were featured in a great PowerPoint Productivity Tips list (Lori tip #16, Troy tip #18) a few months ago, which is something definitely worth reading (see blog post with link to full article here). Recently, Paul at Acuity Training in the UK sent me a link to an Adobe Experts Productivity Tips article they posted, and it has some great power user tips and hacks, definitely worth bookmarking. Full article here.
Troy @ TLC
Sometimes just knowing a hack can save a lot of time. So this is one of those tips included in our TLC Creative PowerPoint training programs where someone always exclaims “Really!!” The tip is how to immediately add a perfect shape (same on all sides), ie. a circle, square or triangle. The solution is so simple, there is nothing complex to forget. Ready,
Click the desired shape in the shapes gallery
Click on the slide. Note: just a simple click, no click and drag, no modifier keys, nothing, just click on the slide.
Done! A perfect, equal sided, square, circle, triangle, etc. is added to the slide
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And the shortcut to the shortcut!
Hold down the CTRL key and click on desired shape in the shapes gallery
Perfect symmetrical shape is automatically added to the slide!
Troy @ TLC