We emailed the inventor of PowerPoint...and he replied!

Let's Unmute The Audience🎙️. Down with boring, one-way presentations 😡

Hi there!

In this newsletter:

• Learn: PowerPoint gets its biggest upgrade in 38 years

• Pricing: We’re thinking about adding a pay as you go plan

• Cool: StreamAlive helps summarize your meeting chat

PowerPoint gets its biggest upgrade in 38 years

38 years ago, Robert Gaskins changed the way businesses, teachers, and speakers presented their material.

Next week, we’re going to show you the biggest change PowerPoint has seen since it’s launch.

Learn how to add audience interactions to your existing PowerPoint slides

We think it’s so big, we emailed the inventor of PowerPoint to let him know about what we were building - and he replied! 😍

We were a bit disappointed we couldn’t show Robert what we had built on top of PowerPoint, but we really appreciated him taking the time to reply!

To learn how to create interactive PowerPoint slides with polls, word clouds, interactive maps, spinner wheels, and more, join our live workshops this week.

• Present on Zoom? Register here

• Present on Teams? Register here

We’ll explore how to turn static presentations into real-time, two-way conversations. Whether you’re leading a webinar, a client pitch, or an internal meeting, discover how to bring your audience into the story and keep them engaged from the very first slide.

💡 What You’ll Learn

​​🔹 How to make your slides interactive, without changing your workflow
🔹 Ways to involve your audience live, even with cameras off
🔹 Techniques to boost engagement inside your deck (not outside it)
🔹 How to turn passive viewers into active participants in real time

It’s happening TODAY and Thursday

🗓️9th December (Zoom) & 11th December (Teams)
⌚11am EST | 4pm GMT | 9:30pm IST
🌍 On Zoom & Teams (Yes, presentations on Zoom can be fun!)

Can’t make it? Register now and we’ll send you the recording

We need to talk about StreamAlive’s pricing

We’d like to hear from you on how we can make StreamAlive’s pricing better.

Currently we have three plans, based around the number of commenters that can participate in each interaction and how many AI credits you use.

We’d love to know what’s most important to you when using StreamAlive.

• Number of commenters?

• Team users?

• Number of live sessions per month you can use StreamAlive in?

• Reporting history?

• Platform choice?

• Themes and branding?

We’re considering whether a pay as you go usage-based pricing model (also known as consumption-based pricing) would be better for everyone.

This means you only pay when you have a live session where you want to use StreamAlive.

If we were to implement a pay as you go plan, there are several ways we could do this:

1. Charge a flat fee per event (with more than two commenters)

2. Charge per number of commenters

3. Charge per number of interactions (polls, word clouds, spinner wheels, etc.)

4. Charge per number of AI credits used

5. Something else?

We’d love to get your input by voting in these polls.

If you have longer or more specific thoughts on StreamAlive’s pricing plan and ways that we can improve it, we’d love to hear your feedback.

Just reply to this email or submit a comment!

Summarize your chat in seconds

When the conversation is flowing in the chat it can be difficult to make sense of what the overall sentiment or thoughts are.

That’s where StreamAlive’s AI comes in.

When you use interactions like Talking Tiles or Transient Thoughts or Wonder Words, a simple button click and turn hundreds of chat messages into a quick, clear summary.

Instant chat summaries from your StreamAlive interactions

Just click the light bulb icon during your live session to generate a full summary of the text. You’ll get:

• Highlights: An overview of the themes and topics your audience spoke about

• Popular opinions: If there was a theme that many people spoke about or had a consensus on, it would get mentioned here

• Alternative voices: If there were any contrarian takes on the popular opinions, they would get highlighted

• Notable quotes: If something quite profound was said by an audience member, it would get picked up

As always, we’d love to know your feedback in our community!

​Catch us on our social pages

If you haven’t already, check out our social media pages to stay updated on our quirky takes on the latest social media trends and the occasional piece of engagement-related advice.

All the best,

Peter and the StreamAlive team
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