12 PowerPoint experts you should be following
Let's Unmute The Audience🎙️. Down with boring, one-way presentations 😡
Hi there!
In this newsletter:
Find out: Yes, your PowerPoint slides can be interactive
Follow: 12 PowerPoint MVPs you should be following right now
Fun: Have you tried StreamAlive’s new quiz interaction yet?
Think PowerPoint on Teams is boring?
We want to change the way you think about delivering PowerPoint slides on Teams.
In tomorrow’s session you’ll learn how your PowerPoint slides can go from talk-talk-talk to listen-talk-listen-talk.
You’ll see how interactions like polls, word clouds, interactive maps, spinner wheels, quizzes, and more can appear DIRECTLY inside your existing PowerPoint slide.
Past events have been super-interesting with attendees bring A LOT of questions on how to setup StreamAlive to work in PowerPoint while presenting.
🗓️25th September
⌚11am EST | 3pm GMT | 8:30pm IST
12 PowerPoint experts you should be following
1/ Nolan Haims - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolanhaims
Nolan has co-hosted and produced 230 podcasts helping listeners become a presenter. He also runs the Nolan Haims Creative agency which offers training and consulting on elevating your PowerPoint presentations.
2/ Aayush Jain - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aayushjaininkppt/
Aayush has been designing PowerPoint presentations for over ten years with his agency InkPPT. Follow him on LinkedIn for PowerPoint resources and tips.
3/ Echo Swinford - https://www.linkedin.com/in/echoswinford/
Echo began using PowerPoint in 1997 and has been a PowerPoint MVP for an incredible 26 years. She is a regular speaker at events like the Presentation Summit, teaching people how to make better PowerPoint presentations and co-authored the book Building PowerPoint Templates.
4/ Julie Terberg - https//www.linkedin.com/in/julie-terberg/
Julie began her career as a presentation designer in 1990 and has been a PowerPoint MVP for 21 years. She’s a regular speaker on podcasts and at conferences on making better presentations. A few years back she set herself a challenge of designing a new slide every day - check out the results here!
5/ Richard Goring - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardgoring
Richard is a big animations fan in PowerPoint and loves teaching people about the joys of motion paths of your animated objects. A PowerPoint MVP for the last 7 years, a regular speaker at events, and a director at the design agency BrightCarbon.
6/ Dave Paradi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveparadi/
Dave is the author of 10 different books about PowerPoint and his YouTube tutorials have clocked up over 4.8m views. Dave offers a variety of courses and live training on his website ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com.
7/ Geetesh Bajaj - https://www.linkedin.com/in/geeteshbajaj/
Geetesh has been a PowerPoint MVP since 2001 and runs the hugely popular Indezine.com website full of PowerPoint tips, tutorials, and templates.
8/ Yulia Barnakova - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuliabarnakova
Yulia’s PowerPoint tips and tricks YouTube videos have been viewed over 8 million times. Today, she evangelizes blending AI, virtual reality and other emerging tech with PowerPoint - which sounds incredible!
9/ Emma Bannister - https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmabpresents
Emma has been a PowerPoint MVP for the last 8 years where she uses her skills to help her clients create beautiful PowerPoint templates for their presentations.
10/ Chantal Bossé - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantalbosse/
A Canadian who has been a PowerPoint MVP for the last 13 years. She’s a presentation designer, TEDx speaker coach, and author of the book, Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques.
11/ Sandra Johnson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerpointmvp/
Sandra was the co-founder of the Presentation Guild, and currently runs the PowerPoint design agency, Presentation Wiz. She also co-hosts the Presentation Podcast with fellow MVP, Nolan Haims and Troy Chollar.
12/ Troy Chollar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/troychollar
Troy writes the popular PowerPoint blog with frequent updates with tips, tricks and trivia about PowerPoint that will help elevate your presentation design skills. He’s also the co-host of the Presentation Podcast and runs the PowerPoint design agency, TLC Creative.
Have you tried the quiz interaction yet?
StreamAlive’s new quiz interaction brings out the competitive nature of your audience.
The fastest fingers win the most points.
Login to your account to try it out.
Here’s a link to the Geography quiz that I created in StreamAlive in case you want to see how it works.
Do you have any feature requests or things you’d like to see improved in StreamAlive?
Drop by our community and let us know!
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