Note: This is part of a 3-Post series on the tools I used to create one of my best presentations ever. Check out the Design Tools and the Closed Captioning as well. The American Society of Association Executives is the association of associations… in other words, the people who attend this event are the people who hire people like me! …
Our 2016 Gift to You: NerdWords Yearbook
Happy New Year! As always, our goal is to share resources to help make your lives easier. Here’s the quick reference guide to every tech tool we mentioned in 2015 in one handy handout. Please download, share, print out, distribute, use and love. Note that makes me incredibly happy: You may know that I am incredibly picky about the tools …
Microsoft Sway: A PowerPoint Alternative
If you’re as tired of PowerPoint slides as, well, everyone in the world, you’ll be happy to hear you have many choices these days. Prezi is one of the most popular competitors, and many presenters have changed to its zooming navigation and embedded multimedia to create more engaging presentations that tell a story. Every few months this category grows even …
NerdWords Yearbook: My holiday gift to you
My dear readers, People I meet during my presentations tell me that they treasure their copies of NerdWords, my weekly newsletter with tech tools and tips. Many say they save them for reference, which gave me a brilliant idea for a gift to you, my fellow nerds. I spent the last few weeks compiling all the tech tools from every …
Case Study: PowerPoint, Issuu and Tagxedo
I’m so proud of Anne Lupkoski, the certification chair for the Central Canada Division of the International Association of Administrative Professionals. She asked for my recommendations to create an online booklet with testimonials. I advised that she use PowerPoint to create a PDF and upload it to Issuu, a site that turns your documents into online magazines. Voila! A masterpiece is …
Top Tech Tools for 2013
Once a year I offer on this site the super-fresh, super-awesome, super-updated Quick Reference Guide that attendees in my sessions receive as a handout. This document has the top 75 tech tools that I love, PLUS some completely awesome discounts from some of the tool providers. Enjoy… and share!
OmniDazzle: Add awesome special effects to presentations
OmniDazzle is a free special effects tool for presentations. Lucky Mac users can download the software to add cool ways to highlight screens, words and points during presentations. Oh how I wish we poor PC users had a similar version! I have a presentation this week in San Francisco, and I would love to use this tool to make my …
Poll Everywhere: Free Audience Response System
Monday I’m speaking for the Western Association of Chamber Executives, and during our webinar dress rehearsal, the coordinators told me about Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is a free/low-cost replacement for the very expensive audience polling devices. Instead of handing out devices that connect to a man behind the curtain who creates a chart of results for the audience to see, …
iSpring Free: Convert your PowerPoint to Flash
Now this is handy! Download iSpring Free, a little PowerPoint add-in to convert your PowerPoint presentation into Flash with a push of a button. Here’s a sample with my last presentation…. Warning… as a stand-alone without audio, it’s insanely boring. But the cool thing is it became a Flash movie in about a minute. iSpring Free | Free PowerPoint to …
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