Category: Reviews

A date with Brainshark

Posted on 02/08/12 in Presentations, Reviews, No Comments

Yes, of course you can use the tools built within PowerPoint 2010 to turn your slideshow into a video file. Yes, you can post the file online. But honestly, are you not the least bit curious who’s watching it? Do you not care which specific parts of the presentation resonate? What if you could track [...]

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Prove it

Posted on 05/09/11 in Demos, Reviews, Sales, No Comments

My favorite sales book by a million miles is Solution Selling by Michael Bosworth. To try and summarize it would be to do a disservice to the author and the sales method, so I’ll not do that. A fundamental tenet of the book, however, is this: You don’t pull out your product and start demonstrating. [...]

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The case for SlideRocket

Posted on 02/15/11 in Reviews, 2 Comments

The guy in charge of furnishing the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit station house needs to think about a new line of work. Between the industrial green-colored walls and the 40-year old vending machine, the place looks older than the set of Barney Miller. The distinct exception? The squad seems to have dropped its entire [...]

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Retro image effects

Posted on 11/05/10 in Reviews, 1 Comment

I’m not a designer, so creating interesting image effects in my PowerPoint slides is tough. I’m learning how to use Photoshop Elements on the fly, but doing so takes a long time. So you can imagine how pleased I was to find Retro Camera. This is a free app ($2.99 without ads) for the Android [...]

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Offline demos made easy

Posted on 01/19/10 in Reviews, No Comments

Planning to demo a website, but are unsure whether you will have a reliable Internet connection? In the past, I might have manually saved some pages to an offline folder (time-consuming), or captured relevant pages using Snagit or similar screen capture software. Recently I discovered a better way. WinHTTrack Website Copier is a free offline [...]

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