What I Learned from “Present It So They Get It” – Book Review
I ended the year with some reading and “Present It So They Get It” is on my recommendation list! I was happy to spend some time with the author, Dave Paradi, earlier in the year at The Presentation Summit where he was also a presenter. I learned we have a lot of similar presentation design goals, but Dave is the first to admit he is not a presentation designer. What he brings is the audience perspective, the executive/presenter understanding, and works on crafting the message, both spoken and visual, into a professional package.
The books subtitle, “Create and Deliver Effective PowerPoint Presentations Your Audience Will Understand” reinforces all of this perfectly. Topics cover everything from explaining that PowerPoint (or any presentation software) is not the problem with boring presentations (chapter 1) to detailing what charts and graphs should contain to carry a message to the audience (chapter 14) and lots more.
Read more about it, and Dave Paradi, at his site here.
The book is also available at Amazon.com here.
– Troy @ TLC
Happy New Year from Everyone at TLC Creative Services!
Developed in PPT 2010 and can be downloaded here.
I hope you are looking forward to a great year!
– Troy @ TLC
Goodbye to 2012 and Christmas Lights
Final day of the year – and it has been a great year! For us here at TLC Creative Services, it has had an overload of projects, lots of new (and repeat) clients, a full year in the new (and larger) office and lots of travel!
Personal life has also been good – lots of family adventures and wonderful Christmas decorations to end the year.
See you in 2013!
– Troy @ TLC
A Merry Christmas PowerPoint Slide Set From Everyone at TLC Creative Services!
Everyone here at TLC Creative Services is sending Christmas cheer with some PowerPoint holiday animation!
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And as I was just reminded this holiday season “There has been only one Christmas… the rest are anniversaries.“
– Troy @ TLC
Merry Christmas Eve with a Free Christmas PowerPoint Template!
At Christmas, the spirit of the season – and a lot of the fun, is giving. TLC Creative Services has this great Holiday themed template for everyone to have and use – FREE!!
Many thanks to TLC Creative Services designer Amber, who developed this template!
Template is developed in PPT 2010 and 16×9 (wide screen) aspect ratio. Download here.
– Troy @ TLC
Tineye – Find Images Online (3)
TinEye has a web browser plug-in, so you can right click any image on a page and search the database directly. The free plug-in is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. To use, pick any online image.
1. For this image, we want to find a higher resolution version. Right-click the image and select “Search Image on TinEye.”
2. TinEye found 121 results, and using the Biggest Image sorter, there is a 800x635px version available*.
– Troy @ TLC
Tineye – Find Images Online (2)
TinEye, the reverse image search site can also be used for some detective work.
Let’s use TinEye to check if an image is being used by another website without permission. Here is a beautiful photo by my friend and incredibly talented photographer, Rikk Flohr, from his webpage.
1. To do a quick web search for non-permitted use of this photo, I loaded it into TinEye using the drag and drop feature.
2. TinEye’s search only found 1 result, which is actually Rikk’s Flickr account.
3. Of course, no search engine covers the entire internet. TinEye is constantly crawling webpages and updating the image database. And this image search proves it is possible other instances of an image exists online. The test image was found on Rikk’s Flickr account, but missed it on his actual webpage. I assume TinEye hasn’t yet crawled Rikk’s site or it is possible the site is already protected in which case TinEye can’t get the image information.
– Troy @ TLC