A mailer from Canva suggested creating such photo collages to accompany blog posts:

You can learn more about creating photo collages using Canva at their site. Read their How to make a photo collage post.

About Canva

Canva is a graphic-design tool website, founded in 2012. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. The tools can be used for both web and print media design and graphics.

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Olivia Roberts
Eyeful Presentations Ltd
Desford Hall
Leicester Lane
Desford
Leicestershire
LE9 9JJ
UK

Countless hours spent tweaking slides…
Days wasted recreating existing presentation content…
An estimated 30 million PowerPoint presentations created every day…

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Leicester, UK, June 18, 2019 – Business leaders like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have publicly bemoaned the impact of poor presentation practice in their businesses, laying the blame for meandering meetings, mixed messages and wasted time firmly at PowerPoint’s door. Despite these high-profile naysayers, presentations remain a constant feature in businesses of all sizes…and a continued drain on resources.

UK based company Eyeful Presentations is launching an international survey to measure the financial cost of presentations in business today. How much of the working week is spent creating presentations? How is this time spent – designing slides or collating content? How many organisations now employ presentation specialists vs. each member of staff creating their own slides?

You can access the online survey here.

Survey data will be collated, analysed and shared with global business leaders as part of the Eyeful Insights thought-leadership programme.

About Eyeful Presentations

Since 2004, Eyeful Presentations has built an enviable reputation as a world leader in the business of presentations.

Through expert research, testing and innovation, they help blue chip clients across the globe get the very best from their business presentations. This is achieved by implementing their proven Presentation Optimisation^TM and Blended Presenting^TM methodologies to ensure that every presentation has a clear, engaging story, a strong call to action and stunning design.

Their UK HQ is the home of Eyeful Labs, Europe’s only dedicated center of presentation excellence and is the base for Eyeful’s consultancy and training practice alongside a European team of dedicated presentation designers and digital practitioners.

For more information about this survey or around the topic of business presentations, please contact Olivia Roberts at +44 (0)1455 826390 or send a message.

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Contact Person:

Olivia Roberts
Eyeful Presentations Ltd
Desford Hall
Leicester Lane
Desford
Leicestershire
LE9 9JJ
UK

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Leicester, UK, May 15, 2018– Eyeful Presentations, a leading presentation design consultancy and the people behind the internationally acclaimed book The Presentation Lab, announce the launch of their annual Eyeful Insights Journal.

Presentations are a key tool in the C-Suite communication toolkit, yet widely misunderstood and too often seen as a process to be run by junior team members rather than embraced by business leaders.

Indeed, Harvard Business Review highlights effective and powerful communication as a key leadership skill. The logic is simple – when audiences are moved, they take your idea and share it with their peers. They not only understand your vision for your company but then follow and deliver upon that message. In short, great presentations are now a leadership imperative.

The aim of the Eyeful Insights journal is simple – to act as a source of inspiration for business leaders across the entire presentation gamut; from crafting a powerful story, identifying a key message, developing creative visuals, right through to how the story is delivered.

About Eyeful Presentations

Since 2004, Eyeful Presentations has built an enviable reputation as a world leader in the business of presentations.

Through expert research, testing and innovation, they help blue chip clients across the globe get the very best from their business presentations. This is achieved by implementing their proven Presentation OptimisationTM and Blended Presenting^TM methodologies to ensure that every presentation has a clear, engaging story, a strong call to action and stunning design.

Their UK HQ is the home of Eyeful Labs, Europe’s only dedicated center of presentation excellence and is the base for Eyeful’s consultancy and training practice alongside a European team of dedicated presentation designers and digital practitioners.

If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Olivia Roberts at +44 (0)1455 826390 or send a message.

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Contact Person:

Rodney Saulsberry
Consultant’s Club
PO Box 1735
Agoura Hills, CA
USA

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When: Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Time: 5:00 PM Pacific Time/ 8:00 PM Eastern Time

Cost: $59.95

Instructions on how to attend this seminar will be sent to you via email along with a PDF Workbook before the date of the session

If you sign up for the seminar but you can’t attend the seminar it will be recorded and sent to you later.

A limited number of students will be accepted in this seminar so please enroll early.

Here is what you will learn:

• How to get started in voiceover
• How to find your unique signature voice
• The equipment you will need to get started
• What it takes to get ready for your first demo
• The current voiceover trends in commercial, promo, and narration
• The announcer and non-announcer delivery
• How to understand VO direction on a piece of copy
• How to find an agent
• And so much more . . .

This is your chance to learn in just one hour how to break into one of the fastest growing home based businesses in the world!

Find out how from the comfort of your home, in your own home studio, you can work anywhere.

For more information and to sign up, visit Rodney’s site.

About Rodney Saulsberry and Consultant’s Club

Rodney Saulsberry is one of the top voice-over talents in the United States, and author of several books including You Can Bank on Your Voice: Your Guide to a Successful Career in Voice-Overs, Step Up to the Mic: A Positive Approach to Succeeding in Voice-Overs, and Rodney Saulsberry’s Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups: With Other Vocal-Care Tips.

For more than a decade, the Detroit native and University of Michigan graduate has given voice to many successful commercial campaigns, including Toyota Camry, Alpo, Verizon, and numerous movie trailers such as, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Finding Forrester, Tupac Resurrection, Friday and Dumb & Dumberer. Rodney resides in Agoura, California.

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Contact Person:
Connie Malamed
Author, Learning Experience Designer, and Publisher
Connie Malamed Consulting
USA
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The Using Design Thinking to Craft Learning Experiences workshop is a full-day preconference session of the Learning Solutions Conference 2018, in Orlando Florida on March 25th. You can find out more on the Learning Solutions 2018 site.

The 21st-century workforce is unique; people have endless options for learning in the ways that best meet their needs. Yet many of the design and development models in L&D are decades old. That’s where design thinking comes in. It’s a modern approach to creative problem-solving that’s iterative, collaborative, and experimental. And it’s also fun!

Join this workshop to explore an entire design thinking cycle. You will work through every stage of the process, applying and adapting best practices that will work for you and your organization, including user interviews, prototyping, and iterative design. You will see how this unique approach can stimulate ideas for creative, human-centered solutions that fit the modern workplace.

About Connie Malamed and The eLearning Coach

Connie Malamed is a consultant, author, and speaker in the fields of online learning, visual communication, and information design. She has helped nonprofit, government, and corporate clients transform their content into interactive learning experiences for more than 20 years. Connie is the author of Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. She publishes The eLearning Coach website and podcast. Connie has degrees in art education and instructional design.

You May Also Like: Visual Design Solutions: Conversation with Connie Malamed

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Contact Person:

Rodney Saulsberry
Consultant’s Club
PO Box 1735
Agoura Hills, CA
USA

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When: Thursday, January 25, 2018

Time: 5:00 PM Pacific Time/ 8:00 PM Eastern Time

Cost: $59.95

Instructions on how to attend this seminar will be sent to you via email before the date of the session.

If you sign up for the seminar but you can’t attend the seminar it will be recorded and sent to you later.

A limited number of students will be accepted in this seminar so please enroll early.

Here is what you will learn:

• How to get started in voiceover
• How to find your unique signature voice
• The equipment you will need to get started
• What it takes to get ready for your first demo
• The current voiceover trends in commercial, promo & narration
• The announcer and non-announcer delivery
• How to understand VO direction on a piece of copy
• How to find an agent
• And so much more . . .

This is your chance to learn in just one hour how to break into one of the fastest growing home based businesses in the world!

Find out how from the comfort of your home, in your own home studio, you can work anywhere.

For more information and to sign up, visit Rodney’s site.

About Rodney Saulsberry and Consultant’s Club

Rodney Saulsberry is one of the top voice-over talents in the United States, and author of several books including You Can Bank on Your Voice: Your Guide to a Successful Career in Voice-Overs, Step Up to the Mic: A Positive Approach to Succeeding in Voice-Overs, and Rodney Saulsberry’s Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups: With Other Vocal-Care Tips.

For more than a decade, the Detroit native and University of Michigan graduate has given voice to many successful commercial campaigns, including Toyota Camry, Alpo, Verizon, and numerous movie trailers such as, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Finding Forrester, Tupac Resurrection, Friday and Dumb & Dumberer. Rodney resides in Agoura, California.

You May Also Like: Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups: Conversation with Rodney Saulsberry

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Contact Person:

Bethany Auck, Founder & Creative Director
SlideRabbit LLC
3320 W Clyde Place
Denver CO 80211 USA
USA
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Denver, CO and Chicago, IL, USA: SlideRabbit has launched a customized presentation workshop offering, SlideDiets, to help professionals from every industry create more impactful, clear and concise slides. SlideDiets workshops are available for booking now for Q1 & Q2 2018.

SlideDiets workshops are tailored to each client or company, using samples of their slides to teach tactics on reducing and focusing content without losing meaning.

Participants will learn skills to identify and hone text-heavy slides, communicate visually, and use software tricks to improve the display of information.

To learn more, please download the SlideDiets Infosheet.

About Bethany Auck and SlideRabbit

Bethany Auck has been working in presentation development for over a decade. Originally in service of large corporations and law firms, Bethany worked with trial attorneys to sculpt narrative and develop visual aids for high-stakes corporate litigation.

In 2012, Bethany and Tara Sheffield left the litigation world to form SlideRabbit.

SlideRabbit works with clients in every industry to improve messaging, simplify content, and design stunning slides.

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Contact Persons:

Nolan Haims
Nolan Haims Creative
17 Chester Road
Montclair, NJ 07043
USA
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Jamie Garroch
YOUpresent
3575 Larchwood Drive,
Minnetonka, MN 55345
USA
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New York City, New York, USA: Nolan Haims Creative has partnered with YOUpresent to create TalkTime to help speakers determine and manage the total time of a presentation based on manually assigned, recorded or narration timings for slides.

TalkTime complements existing PowerPoint features for slide transitions by providing users the ability to assign separate slide times that the speaker plans to use, or has actually used, in the delivery of their presentation. These times are displayed individually in the ribbon, in a summary report window for the whole presentation, and optionally displayed within section names.

Presenters can record these times from live sessions without the audience seeing any visual on-screen indication and while maintaining access to the popular Presenter View. Times recorded in TalkTime do not affect automatic transitions of slides although they can be copied to and from the slide transition times and from audio narrations for auto-running content.

TalkTime is being provided for free as the creators believe this type of functionality should be a native part of the PowerPoint feature set. It’s not uncommon to see presenters going over their allocated time and being able to instantly see a total time for a presentation is a key element in avoiding such situations.

Nolan Haims said

The idea for TalkTime originated from a discussion between Nolan and Jamie at the Presentation Summit 2017, a premier annual event for the presentation industry, and illustrates how networking opportunities can lead to concrete collaborations which benefit the industry.

TalkTime is compatible with PowerPoint on the PC although its creators would like to develop a Mac version once Microsoft supports the required developer tools on the Office:mac platform. TalkTime is available to download for free from presentyourstory.com and youpresent.co.uk

About Nolan Haims Creative

Nolan Haims Creative helps organizations and individuals show up differently and tell better stories with fewer words. NHC’s team of design professionals are dedicated to all types of visual communications including presentation, data visualization, traditional print and identity design. Nolan is a 20-year veteran in the fields of visual communications and storytelling, having served as a designer and art director for thousands of high-end presentations as well as founding and running the presentation department for Edelman, where he helped the PR giant win millions of dollars in new business. One of only 12 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the country, Nolan regularly consults with the development team on the industry standard software.

About YOUpresent

YOUpresent is a PowerPoint add-in and presentation design agency based in Minnesota, USA. YOUpresent provides a suite of off-the-shelf add-ins plus a custom macro and add-in design service for organizations wishing to extend or limit the functionality of PowerPoint or other Office apps. That can be anything from adding a single button to apply a corporate style, to a fully loaded ribbon with custom tools tuned to the organization’s workflow or disabling access to PowerPoint’s features such as the slide master view. In addition to extensibility services, the company also provides presentation design services which encompass the design of templates, presentations, videos and interactive content.

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While the add-in features of Mix may soon show up in PowerPoint, what happens to your published content? Microsoft says that this content can be migrated to their Microsoft Stream service with one click. Here’s what they say on their site:

In the coming months, you’ll also be able to publish these recordings to Microsoft Stream, which offers a simple way to upload and share videos securely across your organization to improve communication, participation, and learning.

If you’d like us to migrate your existing mixes to Microsoft Stream, please click here to visit the Office Mix migration page, sign in, and follow the prompts to automatically migrate your data. When the process finishes, your mixes will be stored on Microsoft Stream as videos. You can continue to access Office Mix until May 1, 2018.

Do note that the two Microsoft links provided above seem to loop between each other. The migration options will show up, and the looping will stop–only if you sign into your Office Mix account, and to be fair, Microsoft does say you have to sign in. What’s not said though is that even if you are signed in OneDrive or another Microsoft site, you will have to sign in again to the Mix site, even if you use the same Microsoft Account username or password.

Once you are signed in, you should see a large Migrate button. But I saw no such button. Why would that happen? That’s because the Migrate button will only show up if your Mixes are prepared for migration. Sure enough, when I visited my Uploaded Mixes page, I could see that my Mixes were still being prepared for migration, as shown in the screenshot below.

OK, here’s another caveat you should be aware of. To use Microsoft Stream, you must have an active Office 365 subscription. Additionally, you can also sign up for a Microsoft Stream subscription without any Office 365, but there’s no communication from Microsoft if non-Office 365 Stream accounts will support migration from Mix.

Here’s some more info from the Microsoft site:

If you have a qualifying Office 365 work or school account, you can sign in to migrate your mixes as videos to Microsoft Stream. If you don’t have access to an Office 365 work or school account, you can download your Mixes as PowerPoint files (.pptx), and you analytics data as Excel files (.xlsx) to save to a storage location of your choosing.

So what if you don’t see a Migrate button when you sign into Office Mix. There’s no need to worry now since Mix will allow you to migrate your content until May 1st, 2018.

You have until January 1st, 2018 if you want to sign up as a new Mix user or download the Office Mix add-in from the website. And if you have already signed up and installed the Mix add-in, you can upload, edit, view, and download your existing content. You can also upload and edit from within PowerPoint.

On May 1st, 2018, Office Mix will cease to exist. You must migrate or download your content before that date.

Microsoft has not provided any date when the Mix abilities will be made available natively within Office 365 versions of PowerPoint. Also, there is no information about what happens to users who use Mix in non-Office 365 versions of PowerPoint 2013 and 2016.

Do note that Office Mix is the second sharing platform after Docs.com that Microsoft is discontinuing.

They do mention that Office Mix functionality will be made available via PowerPoint improvements and Microsoft Stream, but wouldn’t it be better to provide this functionality first, and then discontinue the product, rather than do the other way around?

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Contact Person: Rick Altman, Conference Host
The Presentation Summit
1423 Harvest Rd., Pleasanton CA 94566
United States
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Pleasanton, United States: Two organizations with arguably the most passion for the presentation experience are joining forces, as the longest-running conference for the industry, the Presentation Summit, and the Presentation Guild, the newest voice for the community, announced a strategic partnership for 2017. The benefits to the end-user community are clear and simple:

If you are one of the first 100 people to register and pay for the Summit this year, your membership to the Guild is on the house. If you are already a member, an additional year will be added.

“I couldn’t be happier about it,” said conference host and organizer Rick Altman, who has been at the helm of the Summit since its inception in 2003. “You’d have to look long and hard to find two organizations with goals as aligned as ours. It’s all about learning and community with our conference, and it’s obvious that the Guild holds precious those same qualities. There aren’t too many folks who attend our conference who wouldn’t want to join the Guild, and I hope the vice-versa is true, too.”

Rick: You’d have to look long and hard to find two organizations with goals as aligned as those of the Presentation Summit and the Presentation Guild.

The emergence of the Presentation Guild signals a continuing strengthening of the presentation industry, which was nearly devoid of an identity a decade ago. “It was not too long ago that PowerPoint users didn’t even have recognizable job titles,” says Altman, “let alone descriptions that made sense. I’m really proud of the type of community that our conference helped spawn, but it’s not enough to hold an event once a year, no matter how great we might think it is. We have needed more lasting and ongoing support and the Guild is the perfect conduit for that.”

“We’re excited about this partnership because it makes so much sense for both organizations,” says Echo Swinford, president of the Guild’s Board of Directors. “It’s all about knowing that you have friends supporting you, clients and employers rewarding you, and an industry association advancing you.

“We all get huge doses of that feeling when we’re at the Presentation Summit each fall, and we want to extend that community vibe year-round by continuing and strengthening those connections through the Presentation Guild. As Guild members and Summit attendees, you reap the benefits. If you’re in both, it’s an even bigger win for you.”

Echo: This is all about knowing that you have friends supporting you, clients and employers rewarding you, and an industry association advancing you.

This is an east-coast year for the Presentation Summit, which routinely bounces back and forth between the eastern and western halves of the country. The four-day event will be in Clearwater Beach FL, about 30 minutes west of Tampa. The dates are September 24-27. The seminar schedule and speaking team are almost entirely in place and it should come as no surprise to see founding members of the Guild slotted into the seminar lineup.

About the Presentation Summit

You can get complete information about the conference at www.PresentationSummit.com, making the world a better place, one presentation at a time.

About the Presentation Guild

You can learn all about the Guild at www.PresentationGuild.org.

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