Resource/Misc

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 starts the “4th annual Outstanding Presentations Workshop“

I am very excited to be the lead off presenter with about a topic that I deal with daily – video in PowerPoint. Hope to have you join the event.

From Ellen:

This year, we have a superb group of well-known speakers — some that you asked for last year. Here they are with their presentation topic:
– Troy Chollar, PowerPoint MVP, President of TLC Creative Services, “Multimedia in PowerPoint”
– Tom Mucciolo, President of MediaNet, Inc., faculty member at NYU, “Developing effective content to enhance visual design”
– Dave Paradi, PowerPoint MVP, author and consultant, “Make your presentation compelling, not annoying”
– Lisa B. Marshall, Communications consultant and author, “Engagement: 13.5 ideas to gain attention”
– Tom Kuhlman, VP, Community for Articulate, “PowerPoint’s no longer a slide show freak”
– Chantal Bossé, Consultant with Aspire Comm., author, PowerPoint MVP, “Build a flexible presentation so you can adapt to your audience’s needs”
– Ellen Finkelstein, PowerPoint MVP, author, “High-persuasion PowerPoint presentation secrets”

The audience is from all around the world. This is the best deal in presentation training around; 7 live seminars by industry experts for $7. Details and registration here.

Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Dave Paradi puts together the very informative and insightful (sometimes comical) “Annoying PowerPoint” survey.

The survey is live and everyone is invite to participate! I definitely recommend 3 minutes of time to anonymously add your PowerPoint opinion so we can all learn from the results (He is releasing the results at this years Presentation Summit in October). Access the survey here.

– Troy @ TLC

For the past 2 weeks, the TLC Creative office has been virtually empty (thanks Josh and Kristen for staying on top of everything!) as 5 of us were onsite designing presentations, handling rehearsals and running show presentations with the AV crew(s).

– Troy @ TLC

All of the current Microsoft MVPs, for every application and from every part of the world are listed here: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/find-an-mvp.aspx

Microsoft’s description of the MVPs is something I like:
“Being an MVP – MVPs represent the best and brightest in technical communities, generously sharing their deep knowledge and hands-on expertise with people around the world.”

But how many MVPs are there, and for how many specialties? Here is the current break down (and I am one of the 10 MVPs (35 worldwide) for PowerPoint):

USA
– Access (36)
– Consumer Security (28)
– Excel (25)
– Info Path (4)
– Internet Explorer (8)
– Office for Mac (5)
– Office Systems (4)
– OneNote (2)
– Outlook (7)
– PowerPoint (10)
– Project (13)
– Publisher (1)
– Visio (3)
– Windows Phone Consumer (6)
– Windows Phone Development (7)
– Word (4)
– Xbox (21)

Worldwide
– Access (58)
– Consumer Security (76)
– Excel (118)
– Info Path (9)
– Internet Explorer (45)
– Office for Mac (9)
– Office Systems (35)
– OneNote (3)
– Outlook (16)
– PowerPoint (35)
– Project (56)
– Publisher (1)
– Visio (15)
– Windows Phone Consumer (16)
– Windows Phone Development (37)
– Word (22)
– Xbox (44)

Countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States