 |
|
| Video and Audio], Broadcasting and podcasting Real Time Media On The Net | |
|
[description], Story, any other text you want to use. Razzle Dazzle Them by: Nancy Huang
Once upon a time not so long ago, there was a little boy who went to the market to try to sell his wares. He wasn't having any luck. "Who will buy my sweet red roses? Two blooms for a penny," he sang out hauntingly. A young man came along, full of soft-spoken enthusiasm. "I can give you a great tool that will help you sell your roses. I can design this fabulous new application to help you get your message across. I can give you templates, hundreds of pretty clipart. You can create your presentations in blazingly brilliant colours with glorious animation. I can…" "But, sir (kind knighted sir), they're only roses…" "Ah, don't you see. What you need are pretty pictures, snappy words. Then, you can sell anything." The young man started singing, "If you give them a bit of the razzle dazzle. Razzle dazzle them. You've got to razzle dazzle them. Today the roses, tomorrow the world!" And so marked the birth of slide show presentation software. (Sorry, guys. That was just a bit of unconfirmed rumour). What is true, however, is how much slide show presentation software such as PowerPoint has revolutionised the business world. Company forecasts are now disseminated in presentations (complete with video clip, animation and sound). Staff meetings are run in slide shows. Project status meetings are driven by presentation slides. Even courtesy signs are printed using presentation software. You know the ones I mean: "Please Ensure You Have Flushed Before You Leave!" on the toilet doors and "Please clean up after yourself. Your mother does NOT work here!" over the kitchen sinks. I confess. I have cultivated a doomed PowerPoint dependency over time. I've spent countless hours tinkering with the graphics, experimenting with 100 shades of blue and resizing 500 different tiny icons until they were the identical size. More tragically, I've worked into the dead of the night typing, deleting and retyping to come up with just the right word – one that's concise, punchy and easy on the eye. Commenced…no. On track…oooh. Ahead of schedule…hmm. Completed? YES! After all, "Preliminary high-level design specifications – Completed" is easier on the eye than "Design Specification – Commenced". One of my corporate-ignoramis friends was not so convinced. According to her, if presentation software really was the greatest thing since sliced bread, then one must be able to do a lot more with the application. It must become an indispensable part of modern civilisation. She set me a challenge, which I accepted (all too hastily). It meant that last weekend, armed with my laptop and my all-in-one scanner-printer-copier, I made the following five things for home:
The same day I presented my 9-year-old niece with her "certificate of achievement", she thanked me with her own presentation for me (and a very pretty and professional looking one at that). The feature slide looked like this: Why I deserve a NEW PC:
It got me thinking. Somewhere along the line, we have turned everything into presentations and slides shows as though every piece of communication is a sales pitch. I suppose I'm not intrinsically against the presentation software. After all, it is just a tool – not the Devil incarnate. It is us, the intelligent users, who control the quality of our communication (with or without the aid of the presentation software). Quality comes from following the fundamentals like: keep the presentation points to the point, don't bore the audience, don't read from the slide, avoid excessive jargon, don't dumb down the actual speech and, most of all, content matters. The folly lies in the well-intentioned experimenters who insist on cramming the page with either whiz-bang animations or smearing the page with linguistic tripe. Whoosh, another bullet point shoots across the page. Whoosh, I've forgotten what the presenter just said. So, let's make a pact that we shall never bore each other with show-and-tell-a-thons. We shall never try to bamboozle each other with impressive looking slides. We shall never swamp presentations with meaningless graphics or management-speak jargons. We cannot let a piece of software get the better of us. In the mean time, I can't wait for the introduction of the 'Resume Template'. Perhaps it will come in Productivity Service Pack 143.
video server
Customer Testimonials on video serverWe would never claim to be world authorities on video server but our passion and interest in this area has encouraged us to source out the best locations for video server purchases and products. We have set a number of important criteria for evaluating video server websites. Among these are (1) secure shopping areas for video server purchases; (2) well documented customer support areas and (3) testimonials from happy clients. Just click on the link below and you will see how these apply: Customer testimonials are a clear indication that a video server website is doing a good job. People who have purchased video server and received their goods in a prompt and efficient manner are the best advertising a business can have. In short they are saying **Buy your video server here**. Long established highly reputable video server suppliers will even provide a contact link so that you can talk directly with the customer. This means that they are so confident that their video server customer has had a good experience that they are prepared to put you in direct contact with them. Ultimately it will be your video server shopping experience that determines how happy you are with the supplier. We'd like to think of ourselves as intermediaries to ensure that your video server shopping experiences are positive ones. Our website is full of solid evidence backing up the shopping links shown above. Real Time Media On The Net Index
|
Main Menu News for 19-Mar-26 Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Source: BBC News - Home Links Links Links |
Copyright © 2005. Name of Site here. Last Updated: Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 00:02:06 MDT.