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Worth the Price: Prezi, WeVideo and Canva
Y’all know I specialize in finding free and super cheap tech tools to make our lives easier, but when I find a tool that is extra special helpful, I pony up the money for a full-featured version. In the last two weeks, I’ve upgraded three tools I used to use for free because they’ve evolved into awesome. Canva: Graphic Templates …
Two Alternatives to PowerPoint
For—I don’t know, 200 years?—the standard for presentations has been Microsoft’s PowerPoint. Ever since we dropped the overhead projector/transparency model, we’ve emphasized key points of our educational sessions with hard-to-read, badly designed bullet-point slides. Although PowerPoint is still the most popular program, it has become the software we love to hate. That’s why we’re always looking for alternatives. Prezi: Storytelling …
Breakout Breakdown: Closed Captioning
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 Video Magic and the Design posts 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! …
Breakout Breakdown: Design Tools
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 Video Magic and the Closed Captioning posts 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 …
Breakout Breakdown: Video Magic
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! …
One Session’s Top Ten Apps
After a presentation this week, the group asked me to write a summary of the best apps from the session since we had covered so many so quickly. Here’s my take on the top ten apps from a short program by Your Nerdy Best Friend…. Best Audience App: RunPee Tee hee… I love this app. Download it before you go to …
Looking for a Webinar Platform? Consider These Features
I give a lot of webinars on a lot of different platforms — and I cause all kinds of problems because of the interactive nature of my presentation. I would guess that 75-95% of webinar presenters will have a PowerPoint deck that can be easily uploaded into the platform, while the other 5-25% of us need other features to do what we …
Microsoft Translator: The best app of the year
An American, a German and a Russian walk into a bar. The American says, “Let’s all be friends. I’ll buy the next round!” The German and the Russian smile awkwardly and go back to their phones. They don’t speak English, so… But then the German yells out a happy “Heiliger Strohsack!” and starts pointing to an app on his phone. …
How I Write the Book
I’m hidden in my office this summer working on book #4! This one will have more apps than ever before. I made a quick video to explain how I do my research and evaluate thousands and thousands of apps… one by one by one.
Adobe Spark Post: I heart you
Eureka! Another game-changing graphic tool has arrived! Truthfully, Adobe Spark Post is not 100% new, but it has been rebranded and strengthened, and it’s now cool enough to share with you guys. In a nutshell, Adobe Spark Post lets you quickly — I mean VERY quickly — create beautiful graphics and videos for social media and marketing. With dozens and …
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