Networking

Know Those PowerPoint MVPs to Help Yourself

Microsoft has an award called Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) for these independent experts around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. In the area of presentation skills, there’re PowerPoint MVPs for everyone. They’re just technology individuals, without paid by Microsoft. As PowerPoint MVP Sonia Coleman put it: “Our reward is the satisfaction of being able to help others with what we’ve learned here.”. So if we know more guys like them, we get better resources for our further presentations.

Austin Myers
Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint

Bill Foley
He was born and raised in Texas. PTT specializes in creating Word document management systems (Userforms and templates), lesson plans and graphics for the nuclear industry, doing Instructor Training for utilities and creating PowerPoint training presentations/PowerPoint CBTs (using VBA).
Professional Training Technologies, Inc.

Brian Reilly
Typical projects for Reillyand are the automatic creation of multi-hundred page proposals or presentations from custom databases.
Reillyand

Echo Swinford
Echo’s Voice

Geetesh Bajaj
Geetesh Bajaj
InDezine

Glenna Shaw
She grew up near Huntington, West Virginia, mixed those traits with a generous helping of twenty years technical experience and got herself the perfect blend for PowerPoint troubleshooting.
PowerPoint Magician

Kathy Jacobs
Right now, herl time is spent writing, supporting her site, and answering PowerPoint and other questions.
PowerPoint Answers

Shawn Toh (aka tohlz)
He lives on the sunny island of Singapore, and loves to do advanced animation tricks using PowerPoint.
PowerPoint Heaven
The Art of PowerPointing blog

Shyam Pillai
VB Guru
OfficeTips

Steve Rindsberg
Photographer; A/V & Multi-image producer; owner of RDP, a 35mm slide imaging service bureau; programmer; writer. Along came PowerPoint, and he ended up writing a monthly column for The Cobb Group’s Inside PowerPoint and some bits of books for Que.
PPTools
The PowerPoint FAQ
Steve Rindsberg/RDP - PowerPoint Add-ins, PowerPoint FAQ and more

TAJ Simmons
TAJ Simmons’ Awesome PowerPoint Backgrounds

William Peterson
Presentation Veteran

Quick Try This: Your Personal Show In MySpace Profile

Whether you know it or not, MySpace connects people with people in the Web communities. Decking a perfect profile of yourself in MySpace is the first step of your social network online. If you insert a Flash animation as your personal show in profile, it will be great to show than just texts and pictures.

Well it’s pretty simple to do so within copy and paste technique. At first, you need to have your Flash file hosted; it’s easy to purchase some online spaces nowadays, just select some well-known Web hosting services like 1&1 or DreamHost with your credit card.

After the SWF Flash file is hosted somewhere, copy the URL where it’s hosted, such as: http://www.abc.com/d/efg.swf.

Now you may login your MySpace account and go to edit profile section where you want the Flash show to appear, just modify the URL and width/height in the following HTML codes as you like, then copy and paste them in the profile field:

<embed src=”http://www.abc.com/d/efg.swf” mce_src=”http://www.abc.com/d/efg.swf” width=”300″ height=”300″ quality=”high” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” />

Finally you can save all, and all your friends and potential friends will view and like your updated MySpace profile with the Flash showoff.

William Peterson
Presentation Veteran