Wednesday, January 11, 2006
PowerPoint, Multimedia, the iPod, and You...
It's official: the iPod was the "hot gift" this past holiday season. If you have one of these gizmos, you might be wondering how you can get the most out of it.
Here's a PowerPoint presentation I created called "How to Get the Most Out of Your New iPod"....which I converted into a multimedia ebook in PDF format.
(Production Note: Apparently, Microsoft will let you convert your PowerPoint files directly into PDF files in its next release, PowerPoint 12. Until then, OpenOffice Impress already lets you do this, so I took my PowerPoint file, opened it in Impress, and ported it out as a PDF.)
But let's get back to PowerPoint and multimedia: why not imbed links to your media files within PowerPoint? That way, instead of just looking at the slide, your audience can click on the link to hear the audio portion of the presentation.
Or if your audience needs to see more detail, why not just link to a video demonstration within your PowerPoint or PDF file?
Even if you aren't into the whole iPod or podcasting thing, this presentation might serve as an eye-opener for marketers and trainers who need to deliver audio, video, and PowerPoint presentations online. PowerPoint can serve as tool for neatly packaging your other multi-media content.
I know some folks will say, "Why bother with PowerPoint? Why not just post all your files with links on a web page?" And of course, you can do that. In fact, I have a site with every multimedia file in the Podcast ebook.
But using the PDF or PowerPoint approach lets me package the multimedia content, step-by-step. This is often a better approach for marketing -- "Here's a white paper" is easier to grasp that "here's a list of links". It's the same information: it's simply presented in different ways, for different audiences.
It's multimedia food for thought! ¶ 1/11/2006 05:44:00 PM
It's official: the iPod was the "hot gift" this past holiday season. If you have one of these gizmos, you might be wondering how you can get the most out of it.
Here's a PowerPoint presentation I created called "How to Get the Most Out of Your New iPod"....which I converted into a multimedia ebook in PDF format.
(Production Note: Apparently, Microsoft will let you convert your PowerPoint files directly into PDF files in its next release, PowerPoint 12. Until then, OpenOffice Impress already lets you do this, so I took my PowerPoint file, opened it in Impress, and ported it out as a PDF.)
But let's get back to PowerPoint and multimedia: why not imbed links to your media files within PowerPoint? That way, instead of just looking at the slide, your audience can click on the link to hear the audio portion of the presentation.
Or if your audience needs to see more detail, why not just link to a video demonstration within your PowerPoint or PDF file?
Even if you aren't into the whole iPod or podcasting thing, this presentation might serve as an eye-opener for marketers and trainers who need to deliver audio, video, and PowerPoint presentations online. PowerPoint can serve as tool for neatly packaging your other multi-media content.
I know some folks will say, "Why bother with PowerPoint? Why not just post all your files with links on a web page?" And of course, you can do that. In fact, I have a site with every multimedia file in the Podcast ebook.
But using the PDF or PowerPoint approach lets me package the multimedia content, step-by-step. This is often a better approach for marketing -- "Here's a white paper" is easier to grasp that "here's a list of links". It's the same information: it's simply presented in different ways, for different audiences.
It's multimedia food for thought! ¶ 1/11/2006 05:44:00 PM
