Episode #63 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! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/63 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New E...
Oct 02, 2018•47 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #62 Join this conversation about the two components of every presentation; the audience and the presenter. Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by Richard Goring of Bright Carbon for a fantastic time talking about visual slide design and finding the balance of content to visuals that is best for both presenter and audience. We coined the term "Presentability" during this podcast to describe the optimal balance. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/62 Show Suggest...
Sep 18, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 61 - 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. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/61 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New Epi...
Sep 04, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #60 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 pr...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 59 Video Round-Tripping in PowerPoint - 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 gr...
Aug 07, 2018•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #58 After talking about studio projects and presentation industry news, Troy and Nolan head out the door while Sandra Johnson, Nancy Duarte, and Lori Chollar have an amazing time talking about being Women Owned Businesses in the design industry - a conversation not to miss! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/58 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCU...
Jul 17, 2018•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #57 PowerPoint Sections, first introduced in PowerPoint 2010 are still a hidden feature to many. Troy, Nolan and Sandy spend a whole episode to talking about this great, and underutilized feature. How they use, when they use, and reasons to use PowerPoint sections, along with tips & tricks, asks of Microsoft and examples. Enjoy another PowerPoint conversation! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/57 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: inf...
Jul 03, 2018•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #56: PowerPoint templates are a key, and fundamental, feature of PowerPoint. We have all seen "templates" that are far from a true, functional and helpful PowerPoint template. Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by two industry experts in PowerPoint template development - who literally wrote the book on PowerPoint templates; Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/56 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thep...
Jun 19, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #55 PowerPoint Templates have lots of setup, design, distribution and end-use considerations. For this episode we have a virtual conversation with a number of presentation design experts volunteering their expertise and recommendations on everything PowerPoint templates. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/55 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq N...
Jun 05, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #54 Part 2 of the PowerPoint add-ins conversation with developers Steve Rindsberg of PPTools, Gil Segal of ToolsToo, and Jamie Garroch of YouPresent (Listen to episode 52 for Part 1 of the conversation). We cover three additional questions this time; what about the new Microsoft Store web-based add-ins? What about Mac PowerPoint add-ins? And what is an add-in you would like to develop? It is a fantastic conversation, enjoy! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcas...
May 15, 2018•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #53 Color is a major part of presentation design. How a presentation designer goes about using color, both for design and the technical how-to within PowerPoint have a wide variety approaches. Troy, Nolan and Sandy talk about personal approaches and technical setup and how-to, to using color in presentations. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/53 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iT...
May 01, 2018•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 52 The Presentation Podcast continues the PowerPoint add-in conversation from the perspective of the add-in developers themselves. With 3 amazing guests providing their insights and knowledge; Steve Rindsberg of PPTools, Gil Segal of ToolsToo, and Jamie Garroch of YouPresent. This will be part 1 in this conversation, look for part 2 in the near future. The insights and information from these add-in developers is definitely worth a listen, and probably a re-listen to take notes on everyth...
Apr 17, 2018•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #51 Add-ins, third party apps that make design time faster by automating tasks and enabling PowerPoint to do more than it is capable of are something every professional presentation designer should take advantage of. Troy, Nolan, and Sandy talk about add-ins they use and see others using. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/51 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://...
Apr 03, 2018•59 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #50 Two amazing things 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! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/50 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New Episodes 1st a...
Mar 20, 2018•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 49 "Beautiful" is subjective, as is slide design, which Troy, Nolan, Sandy and our guest Mitch Grasso have strong opinions on. Mitch adds great insights into presentation design as founder of SlideRocket (acquired by VMware in 2011) and now Beautiful.ai (an online presentation design app that launched February 6, 2018). 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 bea...
Mar 06, 2018•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #48, 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. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/48 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq ...
Feb 20, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #47 Support for 3D model file formats are a new option for PowerPoint. And 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? Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/47 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Th...
Feb 06, 2018•55 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #46 Join an fantastic 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. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/46 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@the...
Jan 16, 2018•57 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #45 Presentation software's primary purpose is to support a presenter. And presenters need to be aware of what things can go wrong, know what to check before presenting, and prevent many potential issues before they are an issue. Sandy, Nolan and Troy are presenters, they work with presenters every week, and have experienced so many presentation technical issues this podcast offers a compilation of things every presenter should check before presenting. Full Episode Show Notes http://thep...
Jan 02, 2018•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #44; Year End Thoughts This is the 24th episode and 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. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/44 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New Episodes 1st and 3rd T...
Dec 19, 2017•59 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #43, Office 365 is Microsoft's subscription based software and service that goes beyond the Office apps by encompassing SharePoint, Teams, Groups, Unified Communications with Skype and much more. Troy, Sandy and Nolan talk about they each use Office 365 for their studios and the 'secrets' to making the most of it. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/43 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review ...
Dec 05, 2017•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 42 - This episode enjoy an amazing conversation with Tom Howell of Synapsis Creative, Mike Parkinson of Billion Dollar Graphics, Nolan Haims of Nolan Haims Creative and Troy Chollar of TLC Creative Services. Recorded at the 2017 Presentation Summit, our conversation covers a range of topics from design projects to studio policies to if our University degree applies to our career! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/42 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hos...
Nov 19, 2017•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #41 Presenter Notes: what are they, are they needed, what is the best way to create them, where is the best place to create them? So many questions for such a useful presentation tool. Yes, there are less helpful ways of creating, formatting and using Presenter Notes. No, there is no perfect way to create, format or use Presenter Notes. Troy, Nolan and Sandy share their notes about using Presenter Notes. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/41 Show Suggestion...
Nov 07, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #40 - Life, and being a professional, is a matter of learning from experiences - and sometimes those experiences are mistakes. Join in on a design studio conversation full of business mistakes seen, been a part of, or possibly created. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/40 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New Episodes 1st and 3rd Tuesday Ever...
Oct 17, 2017•53 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #39 We brought our portable podcast-in-a-box to 2017 Presentation Summit conference. This great conference is focused on the Presentation Industry and gave us the opportunity record this special episode with over a dozen presentation experts gathered around a table for a rambling conversation about presentation design trends, PowerPoint hacks and more! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/39 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepre...
Oct 03, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #38 To "PowerPoint" is a verb in both corporate and education circles, which speaks to the dominance of Microsoft PowerPoint in the presentation industry - and that is not a bad thing as Microsoft continues to evolve the software. But there are other options in use, all with high points and advantages. Troy, Sandy and Nolan spend this episode reviewing the ones they know are out there and use for projects. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/38 Show Suggesti...
Sep 19, 2017•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #37 Before the presentation design begins, presentation designers have questions and information they gather to assure the design meets the needs. Troy, Nolan and Sandy talk through their pre-project checklists and find all designers have a lot in common! Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/37 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New Episodes 1st ...
Sep 05, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 36 Join Troy, Sandy and Echo as they talk about the Presentation Guild; its history, offerings, and special side conversation about how the Presentation Summit started as well as how the Presentation Guild and Presentation Summit are very separate entities. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/36 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New Episodes 1s...
Aug 14, 2017•1 hr•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #35 Everyone has cool tips, apps and ways of doing things. It is part of what makes an experienced designer experienced. Join Troy, Sandy and Nolan as they have fun talking about what apps, hacks and cool tips they use as part of their daily routine. Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/35 Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq New Episodes 1st and 3...
Jul 30, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #34 First, Nolan makes a big announcement! Then, Troy, Sandy and Nolan discuss "Frustration: [fra'-str-ay-shun], the feeling of being upset or annoyed, especially because of inability to change or achieve something." That is the official definition of Frustration, and it definitely describes the feelings presentation designers experience, often on a daily basis, when working in PowerPoint. Yes, even our favorite presentation software frustrates us, and this afternoon Troy, Nolan and Sand...
Jul 18, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
