Resource/Misc

Florida in September – Yes!

Fort Lauderdale, Florida in September is perfect! I, and hopefully you, will be there for the 2013 Presentation Summit. I will be hanging out in the Help Center answering PPT questions throughout the event and have 2 presentation sessions.

Here is the session schedule, which is packed with great topics by the top people in the presentation industry. My talk titles are:
1. “PowerPoint is my Creative Suite”
2. “Don’t Be the Presenter the AV Crew Hates!”

On the schedule webpage, the talk titles link to a more detailed description of each talk. Hope to meet up with lots of you there!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:34:30-07:00June 21st, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Lori’s Showsite Staging

This is Lori’s show she is running the presentations for today. Unfortunately, when I stopped in (I am actually running GFXs for a different meeting at the same venue), it was not the more elaborate presentation graphics, but each section of custom shaped staging is projection mapped for content.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:37:54-07:00June 17th, 2013|Resource/Misc|

Online Art with Silk

Silk is an online interactive art generator, where you create the art. The art is based on mirrored, or reflective, creation and it is much easier to experience than explain – so go experience it here.

I have saved out some images from Silk to use in PowerPoint template background development and also used the abstract art as images on slides. It is definitely a unique site that quickly produces unique art images.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:39:05-07:00June 12th, 2013|Resource/Misc|

Stack of Nexus 10 Tablets

Friday we were loading a completed interactive brochure project onto Nexus 10 tablets to be shipped to the client’s tradeshow event (can you guess which tablet is our staff test one…).

So how was PowerPoint involved in a 300+ page interactive brochure? The full project was storyboarded as a slide deck so the client could review and do copy edits before moving to the HTML5 coding.

– Troy TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:41:24-07:00June 3rd, 2013|Resource/Misc|

Google and its New Image Searches

Click here to read the full commentary article on Google’s new/refined image search process.

“I did a Google search for the image” has become a standard phrase I hear a lot. It is said without thought of image quality (which often is why I am asking where the image was sourced from, in hopes of getting a higher resolution image to work with), ownership or copyright issues. Recently, Google has revised its image search display process to simplify the process. For presenters, this may be helpful, but I can definitely understand the loss of website recognition and ease of “borrowing” images.

Example of the “old” Google search results (shows source website in background):

Here is what is seen from a Google image search today (shows only image, mage specs, and related images):

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:42:19-07:00April 22nd, 2013|Resource/Misc|

Is This Dangerous – or Bad?

AV equipment is pretty amazing. It is shipped all over the country, connected-unconnected continuously (unlike the cable monitor on your desktop that was connected once and then ignored for its life) and usually setup and used in fairly dark venues. With all of this use in harsh environments, I get to see some pretty spectacular uses and failures.

This poor cable has met the end of its life (although it was setup for me to connect one of my show computers too). And just like in “A Christmas Story,” this may be a scary power setup.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:42:47-07:00April 19th, 2013|Resource/Misc|
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