Thursday, May 19, 2011

Free PowerPoint 2007 tutorials

There are numerous free resources available for PowerPoint 2007on the internet using which not only you can learn the basics like  "How to create your first presentation?" but also the advance things like "How to use advance animation effects?".

Here are some of the presentations which cover some of these topics and may help you in big way in the use of PowerPoint 2007.

Also see "How to switch from 2003 to PowerPoint 2007?" and "PowerPoint 2010 free learning resources".

Friday, April 8, 2011

Create cool presentations with VisualBee

VisualBee is a Microsoft PowerPoint plugin (add-in) which helps you create awesome presentations with cool graphics and stunning templates with much ease and in less time.The plugin not only lets you select style and templates for free but also smart enough to analyze the text of slides and automatically enhances it with relevant graphics. The biggest advantage is that you need not to go outside of PowerPoint software to search for pictures, templates etc.

Once you are done with your presentation, just click the VisualBee addin in PowerPoint ribbon and click 'Enhance Presentation'. After this step, "Enhance presentation' wizard will just take few seconds to enhance your presentation. See demo below for details:


Though visualBee takes care of most of the things a  presenter would need, yet of late audio and video has also become an integral part of the presentations. As of now, VisualBee has no video or audio library available. There is a workaround for this problem too. For image and video search you can use authorSTREAM desktop- a free add-in for PowerPoint. authorSTREAM desktop lets you search and insert images from Bing and videos from YouTube from within the PowerPoint.



VisualBee do have a premium plan which allows users access to wide range of exclusive templates and graphics. Download VisualBee here and start creating great content.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

authorSTREAM re-launches premium plans

The presentation sharing platform, authorSTREAM has re-launched its premium plans. New plans known as Pro and Business are priced at $29.95 /Year and $299 /Year respectively.

With this launch authorSTREAM has gone very aggressive against Slideshare. authorSTREAM is offering more features and better presentation output (authorSTREAM retains animations, sound etc)  for a price which is 80% less than that of SlideShare's.
  • authorSTREAM Pro ($2.5/month compared to SlideShare's Silver plan at $19.95/month)
  • authorSTREAM Business ($39.95/month as compared to SlideShare's Platinum plan at $249.95/month)
authorSTREAM has done very nice job by creating a authorSTREAM Vs. SlideShare comparison page which provides full insight into the features and pricing being offered by two PowerPoint sharing giants.

authorSTREAM Pro vs. SlideShare Silver
Feature authorSTREAM SlideShare
Unlimited Private uploads Yes Yes
Analytics Yes Yes
Webinars (Conferencing tool) Yes Yes
Convert PPT to Video Yes --
Download presentation as Flash Yes --
Price $2.50/month $19/month




authorSTREAM Business vs. SlideShare Platinum
Feature authorSTREAM SlideShare
Unlimited Private Uploads Yes Yes
Presentation Analytics Yes Yes
Branded channels Yes, (5 Channels) Yes, (1 Channel)
Ad free Yes Yes
Webinars (Conferencing tool) Yes Yes
Turn off commenting and Transcript Yes Yes
Full Branding Yes Yes
Secure embeds (Allow on selected domains) Yes --
Own branding in embeds Yes --
Private sharing with selected people Yes --
Download presentation as flash Yes --
Unlimited PowerPoint to video Yes --
30 day free Trial Yes --
Price $39.95/month $249/month

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