PowerPoint Blogs, Podcasts, Columns and Newsfeeds
PowerPoint MVP Blogs
- Shawn Toh runs The Art of PowerPointing
- Troy Chollar is justly famous for his huge, high impact presentations for major corporate clients. His blog is ThePowerPointBlog.com
- Count on Tony Ramos for interesting links and thought-provoking commentary. And he's such a nice guy, we can even count on him for links to other blogs. To wit:
- Geetesh Bajaj
- Luc Sanders' Luc's PowerPoint blog (as far as we know, the only bi-lingual Dutch/English PPT blog in existence)
- Kathy Jacobs has gone over to the One Note side, but is still an honorary PowerPoint MVP. Her PowerPoint blog entries are here
Other Blogs
- The only German-language PowerPoint blog in the known universe. Known to us, at least.
- Visual Being is "a group weblog dedicated to sharing resources that can help anyone involved in any aspect of the presentation process achieve better results."
- Ellen Finkelstein has a blog and a section of her site devoted to PowerPoint tips
- Cliff Atkinson
- Garr Reynolds' Presentation Zen blog
And Blogs from the Belly of the Beast
- Ric Bretschneider, the Program Manager for PowerPoint (and a very knowledgeable one at that, not to mention all around nice guy) has taken up the microphone and begun to publish a blog and podcasts featuring noted experts in the presentation and PowerPoint field. The first podcast is up and features Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen fame, design powerhouse Nancy Duarte (Duarte Design) and Microsoft's Howard "The Father of Office 2007 Styles" Cooperstein. Coming soon: More podcasts from PowerPoint Live 2007.
- Mike Fried's blog features inside info from one of the PowerPoint developers at Microsoft.
- The PowerPoint and Office Art Team Blog covers all the neat new graphics tricks that PowerPoint 2007 will include.
- Andrew May is a first-rate technical writer, a genuinely nice guy and he's smart as a whip This article on how PowerPoint plays multimedia files is one of his.
Podcasts
Yes. Podcasts. About PowerPoint.
- Ric Bretschneider, the Program Manager for PowerPoint (and a very knowledgeable one at that, not to mention all around nice guy) has taken up the microphone and begun to publish a blog and podcasts featuring noted experts in the presentation and PowerPoint field. The first podcast is up and features Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen fame, design powerhouse Nancy Duarte (Duarte Design) and Microsoft's Howard "The Father of Office 2007 Styles" Cooperstein. Coming soon: More podcasts from PowerPoint Live 2007.
- PPT-TV
Kind of a short list, isn't it? Interested in creating your own PowerPoint podcast? It shouldn't be too hard if you have a Mac. The story's different on PCs. There aren't many (any?) tools for making podcasts on Windows. But my friend Joe is working on a new one. Have a look.
Columns
- PowerPoint MVP Geetesh Bajaj has a large and growing collection of PowerPoint Personality Interviews
- Julie Terberg's Column Archives from Presentations Magazine
PowerPoint-Related RSS Feeds
- We've added an RSS feed to the PowerPoint FAQ.
- You can get an RSS feed alerting you to the latest MS Knowledgebase additions for your favorite MS products at http://support.microsoft.com/selectindex/?target=rss
