Reviewed: Webinar and Virtual Meeting Tools You Can Use With Powerpoint

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Many of you have had to switch to working from home and conducting meetings & events virtually. This guide reviews some of the online meeting software options that you can use to conduct virtual meetings, seminars, webinars, lectures, etc.  If you’re running interactive PowerPoint presentations using ParticiPoll, simply use the share screen option on your […] Read more

Virtual Meetings are easy to hold if you are worried about Coronavirus

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If you have planned an upcoming meeting, seminar or workshop involving a presentation and are likely to be cancelling your event due to Coronavirus (COVID-19), consider conducting your presentations virtually as a live event/webinar.   The added bonus of implementing a virtual format for your presentations is that it reduces the need for business travel […] Read more

How The Title Of Your Slide Can Transform Your Presentation

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Want a simple way to make your slides more impactful? Want to help improve the delivery of your presentation? In this blog post we focus on how a good title helps you reinforce a key message, helps you transition smoothly through your slides whilst helping your audience to remember the key messages. It’s critically important […] Read more

How to Use Wordclouds to Build Rapport with International Audiences

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There are many of you who present or facilitate sessions with international audiences, or indeed have experience of being a member in a diverse audience. You can appreciate that it is one of the more challenging situations in which to ensure everyone is attentive, engaged and understanding the content being presented.   Here is a […] Read more

A Quick Guide To 8 New Features In ParticiPoll!

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We’ve just released a new version of ParticiPoll bringing you several new features designed to make your presentations even more interactive and immersive for your audiences.  Here’s a quick review of 8 new features coming to you with the latest release this week:   1. There are a whole new range of chart types to […] Read more

Participoll Goes Serverless

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We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to boost the capacity and scalability of our interactive polling system for PowerPoint.  Online polls create their own unique challenge for tech infrastructure. Normal websites have a steady flow of traffic with not much variation.  Polls however are a bit more “feast and famine” with the potential to […] Read more

Alternatives to TurningPoint for Audience Polling

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Hardware-based audience polling solutions such as TurningPoint and iClicker have been around for years and remain in use primarily because of the inertia in larger organisations. Systems that use hardware voting pads or clickers have lots of disadvantages:- Disadvantages of Hardware Voting Systems Expensive to purchase Have to be organised in advance of the presentation Have […] Read more

28 Great PowerPoint Presentation Tips

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A comprehensive list of PowerPoint presentation tips and tricks. Microsoft PowerPoint has been around since 1987 and is by far the most popular presentation tool on the market but many people still struggle to give effective presentations. PowerPoint is often blamed but often this is really a case of a poor workman blaming his tools. Audience polling tools […] Read more

How to Save your PowerPoint Presentation as a Video

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It’s really easy to save your whole PowerPoint presentation as a video which can be uploaded to the likes of YouTube and Vimeo. Note that this should not be confused with embedding video into your slides or creating a screen recording, both of which are also possible in PowerPoint.   Quick Way to Save PowerPoint […] Read more

How to Capture and Insert a Screen Recording Video into your PowerPoint Presentation Slides

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The latest version of PowerPoint comes with a little-known but cool tool that let’s you record a screen capture video session on your computer and embed that as a video in a presentation slide. It’s like PowerPoint contains it’s own video recorder which can capture video and audio from any activity you might make on […] Read more