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Interviews of people who enrich presentations and PowerPoint.

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Ellen Finkelstein is the author of How To Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and the upcoming PowerPoint for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects. Ellen maintains a web site that offers PowerPoint tips and a selection of free backgrounds. There, you can sign up for her monthly PowerPoint Tips Newsletter to get free tips, tutorials, and techniques.

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Tom Mucciolo is president of MediaNet, and a recognized industry expert in visual communications, business presentations and leadership skills. He has served as a skills consultant for major corporations since 1985, concentrating on the script, visuals, and delivery associated with presentations, especially electronic events. High-profile communicators, including corporate leaders, politicians, educators, physicians, lawyers, sales teams,media personalities, as well as those at any organizational level, demand his coaching expertise to enhance executive presence, improve leadership effectiveness and develop high-quality communication skills.

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Carmine Gallo is a communications coach for the world’s most admired brands. His client list includes Intel, Chase, Barclays, IBM, Nokia, and many others. He is an Emmy award-winning journalist and former anchor, host, and business correspondent for CNN, Fox, CNET, and CBS. Gallo writes a bi-weekly column on the subject of business communications for Businessweek.com and he is the author of two books aimed at business professionals who want to become better speakers and presenters.

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Terry Irwin is a consultant surgeon in Belfast, Northern Ireland working for the National Health Service (NHS). Terry is also a long time PowerPoint user and co-author of a book on PowerPoint geared towards the designing of medical presentations. In this interview, Terry discusses the use of PowerPoint in medicine, and his book.

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Kathy Villella is cofounder of PowerFrameworks, and is primarily responsible for the site content. She has provided presentation development support for 20 years. Kathy supported client engagement teams and supervised and trained team support at McKinsey & Company, Inc., for nearly 15 years and has provided freelance production support to world-class firms for over 13 years.

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Vikas Joshi known for his groundbreaking work in the online learning industry, product innovations, and offshore outsourcing models. Under his guidance and leadership, the Harbinger group has built innovative software products for the global marketplace. In this interview, he discusses Raptivity, their e-learning content creation tool.

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Mike Soucie heads Electric Rain, creators of the upcoming StandOut presentation program. In this interview, Mike explains the concept and workflow within StandOut, and discusses Flypaper, the dashboard within StandOut.

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Rodney Saulsberry is one of the top voice-over talents in the United States, and author of the new book, Step Up To The Mic. 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. In this interview, Rodney discusses his new book.

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Jonathan Boutelle is the CTO of SlideShare, and is a principal at Uzanto Consulting. A software engineer by training, his interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and user experience. In this interview, Jonathan discusses SlideShare and PowerPoint.

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Tom Bunzel specializes in knowing what other presenters need. He has appeared on Tech TV's Call for Help as "Professor PowerPoint" and is a featured speaker at the PowerPoint Live conference each year. In this interview, Tom discusses his book and PowerPoint.

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Don Brittain is CEO and a founder of Instant Effects, a California company that develops software to visually enhance presentations, communications, and collaboration. Don has a personal interest in bringing the power of interactive computing and visual communication into mainstream use. In this interview, he discusses OficeFX and PowerPoint.

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Johan Rosenquist is the founder of w2solutions, a software innovation company. To the PowerPoint community, he brings experience from the Telecom world via the HeadsetPresenter application. In this interview, Johan discusses Headset Presenter, Bluetooth, and PowerPoint.

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Dr. Christopher Peri has his credentials in architecture, and delves into methods that faciliate designers and engineers to network in real-time. He is the CTO at Simulat, Inc. where he leads development of Vyew, an interactive browser-based collaborative workspace. In this interview, Christopher discusses Vyew, PowerPoint integration and more.

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Daniel Park has spent more than a decade in multimedia development, and has worked with Camtasia Studio since its introduction as Camtasia back at the start of the milennium. In this interview, Danies discusses his book, Camtasia Studio, and PowerPoint.

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Kirk Cunnigham is Executive Director, Marketing at Business Objects, creators of Crystal Xcelsius software. In this interview, Kirk discusses Business Objects, Crystal Xcelsius, and its charting abilities in comparison to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

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Joel Harband heads Tuval Software Industries, based in Israel. Their best known product is Speech-Over Studio, a PowerPoint add-in that enables PowerPoint slides to incorporate narrations using automated voices. In this interview, Joel discusses his product and its typical applications.

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Cliff Atkinson advises the senior leadership of some of the world's largest companies on how they can engage the organizational phenomenon called PowerPoint. In this interview Cliff discusses his book, storyboarding inside PowerPoint and shares some ideas.

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Michael Doyle is the Chairmasn and Chief Executive Officer Of Impatica. In this interview, Michael discusses Impatica in education and business, and Impatica's new hardware device -- the Showmate that allows you to project PowerPoint presentations directly from your BlackBerry PDA.

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Echo Swinford is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional). When she's not working on new media, she is answering almost all the questions on the PowerPoint newsgroup. In this interview, Echo discusses her book, the PowerPoint newsgroup, and provides some
PowerPoint tips...

Jeff Van West puts his get-the-job-done philosophy into practice in training movies on Effective Presentations which is available online from Lynda.com. In this interview, Jeff discusses PowerPoint experiences, design and improvement ideas...

As President of Grass Roots Software, Lou Douros' primary role is in securing partnerships to advance the use of Grass Roots Software technology in a broad range of vertical markets and business to business solutions. In this interview, Lou discusses Freepath, PowerPoint, and non-linear presentations...

Ray Larabie became interested in fonts in the early 70's when his grandmother gave him sheets of Letraset. He became so familiar with typefaces that, by the time he was 17, he could identify hundreds of fonts by name. Ray now heads Larabie Fonts and Typodermic - in this interview Ray discusses font usage in PowerPoint...

James Theall is CEO of Media Marketing Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based software and service company that has recently launched SlideManager for PowerPoint. James remains obsessed with automating the model that shifts individuals creating their own presentations (PowerPoint’s original model) to the hub-and-spoke model that moves presentation building out into the field while maintaining knowledge, story points and design standards. In this interview, James talks about slide management, SlideManager, and case studies...

Composer/Producer John Bickerton is Creative Director for the UniqueTracks Production Music Library. UniqueTracks licenses music for use as soundtrack in digital video productions, independent films, Flash, multimedia and PowerPoint presentations. In this interview, John discusses music libraries and sounds in presentations...

Nancy Duarte has been a Principal of Duarte Design since 1990. Her firm is in the heart of the Silicon Valley and the client list is loaded with Fortune 500 companies. Her passion for business communications that are clear, meaningful and attractive has opened doors for her in a business world full of cluttered and complex visual communications. In this interview, Nancy talks about design, inspiration and rules...

Rick Altman is all set to host the third annual PowerPoint Live event this year in San Diego from September 25th to 28th. In this exclusive Indezine interview are all the questions you wanted to ask him - the interview turned out so good that Rick mirrored it on the PowerPoint Live site! In this interview, Rick discusses PowerPoint Live like never before...

Jan Ozer has worked with digital video since 1991, originally in the video compression industry and since 1996 as a contributing editor for EventDV and PC Magazine. Jan teaches courses in digital video production, both privately and for the University of Wisconsin Department of Continuing Education, and shoots and produces DVDs for local musicians near his hometown in Galax, Virginia. In this interview, Jan discusses PowerPoint, the book and video stuff...

Joye Argo spent a number of years in corporate marketing and advertising for the education and healthcare sectors. She was a national account executive for a Fortune 500 firm before starting her own company providing research consulting to large direct marketing firms. Joye is a principal and Vice President of Business Development at Studio F Productions. In this interview Joye discusses thje importance of using professionally designed templates...

Pete McChrystal is the founder and CEO of Accent Technologies. During the early years, Accent’s focus was on high-end presentation development and management services for corporate clients. Today, Librarian is used by many Global 2000 companies to manage and distribute documents and presentation materials to global offices and mobile sale forces. In this interview, Pete discusses PowerPoint, DAM and ADM...

Adrian Doyle heads Visual Exemplars Ltd, a UK based company that creates Perspector, the popular add-in for PowerPoint that allows you to use animated 3D objects and effects inside PowerPoint. Adrian has worked in the IT sector for many years implementing large scale business and enterprise applications for clients including British Airways and the UK's Inland Revenue. He also has managed new start-up companies in the Internet sector and helped to turn them into successful businesses. In this interview, Adrian discusses Perspector, 3D and PowerPoint...

Troy Stein is Camtasia Studio product manager at TechSmith Corporation in Okemos, Michigan. He has over a decade of experience in technology services and product management and has worked with start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, and small businesses. In addition to developing the strategic product roadmap and promotion of Camtasia Studio, he works with TechSmith’s development team and customers to formulate new releases.

In this interview, Troy discusses Camtasia, his role at TechSmith, PowerPoint and more...

Jim Endicott is a nationally-recognized consultant, designer, speaker specializing in professional presentation messaging, design and delivery.

Jim has been a Jesse H. Neal award-winning columnist for Presentations magazine with his contributions to the magazine's Creative Techniques column. Jim has also contributed presentation-related content in magazines like Business Week, Consulting and Selling Power as well as a being a paid contributor for a number of industry-related websites.

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Chris Ferrone, Managing Partner of Matton Images LLC, a complete royalty free resource, has worked in the stock photo industry since 1987. He has served at Vice President of Index Stock Imagery's International Sales Division sas well as managed their domestic sales office in Los Angeles. Chris is also President of Retrofile.com which licenses rights-managed and royalty free vintage stock imagery world-wide through a variety of agents and other distribution channels. He is also currently the President of the North American stock photo industry trade association, the Picture Archive Council of America.

In this interview, Chris discusses "royalty free" and usage of images in PowerPoint.

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David Marcovitz is Associate Professor in the Education Department and Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology at Loyola College. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he studied support for technology in elementary schools. He has taught computer applications and computer programming at the high school level, and he has worked as a technology specialist in a high school. Prior to coming to Loyola College, he taught in the educational technology program at Florida Atlantic University.

In this interview, David discusses VBA, education and PowerPoint.

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Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec is a Lead Program Manager with Visio at Microsoft. Mai-lan has been with Microsoft for five years, working on Microsoft Commerce Server, Microsoft Transaction Server, and Visio. She is the author of two technology books for business managers and multiple articles in MSDN Magazine. Mai-lan is currently working on the next version of Visio.

In this interview, Mai-lan discusses Visio, graphics and PowerPoint.

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Jeffrey P. Fisher provides audio, video, music, writing, training, and media production services. He also writes about music, sound, and video for print and the Web. He's published six books including: Instant Sound Forge (CMP, 2004), The Voice Actor's Guide to Home Recording (with Harlan Hogan, Artistpro.com, 2004), and Profiting From Your Music and Sound Project Studio (Allworth Press, 2001).

In this interview, Jeffrey discusses sound, recording, voice-overs and their relation to PowerPoint. Don't miss Jeffrey's hardware recommendations for recording voice-overs for PowerPoint presentations.

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Rodney Saulsberry is one of the top voice-over talents in the United States, and author of the new book, You Can Bank on Your Voice. 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. Saulsberry, the voice of Joe Robbie Robertson on the cartoon series Spider-Man, resides in Agoura, California.

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Vitaliy Kuznetsov is a Program Manager for PowerPoint in Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU). Currently, he drives the development of PowerPoint, and in the past has shipped PowerPoint 2001 and PowerPoint X, as well as worked on a few Mac Internet products.

Kuznetsov’s work interests are in the areas of productivity and multimedia software development, user interface design, and, of course, beautiful PowerPoint presentations.

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Ellen Finkelstein is the author of How To Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (and 2002) and a regular contributor to Presentations magazine, where she writes for the Creative Techniques column.

Her company, Ellen Finkelstein, Inc. helps clients create presentations that communicate clearly and achieve their goals. She maintains a Web site at www.ellenfinkelstein.com that offers PowerPoint tips and a selection of free backgrounds.

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Paul Stannard is the CEO of SmartDraw.com, a provider of business graphics software. Stannard started the company in 1994 with no debt, no capital, and no outside funding. Recognized for its explosive growth by Deloitte & Touche and Inc Magazine, SmartDraw.com generates more than 2 million visitors each month.

In this interview, Paul discusses SmartDraw, visuals and PowerPoint. He also speaks about SmartDraw's success story, their support infrastructure and shares some trivia.

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Michael Doyle is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Of Impatica. He has founded several successful high technology companies including Computer Innovations which became Canada’s largest personal computer sales and service organization with revenues of over one billion dollars annually. Mr. Doyle served as a member of Canada’s National Advisory Council on the Information Highway and on the Ministers Council on Educational Technology. He started his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM Corporation and co-founded Impatica in 1998.

In this interview, Michael talks about Impatica, online rich media and PowerPoint...