Datafeed Directory Now Available
Because we connect so many kinds of data to presentations and digital signage, many of our clients ask us where to find datafeeds. So we created our datafeed directory to give you some data sources to start with.Click on the button below to be taken to our datafeed...
FAQ: How to Play a PowerPoint Slideshow on TV
How can I Play a PowerPoint Slideshow on TV? Sometimes you need to display a PowerPoint slideshow on a TV to show your presentation on the meeting, a conference, or use the slideshow for an information screen or advertising display. Most of our customers use this for...
World Time Clock using PowerPoint
One of our favorite things at PresentationPoint is when our customers send us their "look what we made" pictures and stories. This story is about a world time clock designed in PowerPoint by audiovisual and IT firm, Qubix, using our Dynamic Elements software. Here is...
FAQ: Computer Connectors and Cables
Since the dawn of computers, connectors have always played an all-important role in transmitting data from data sources to a display monitor, and they continue to remain important today. Connectors are of many types, and they can be incorporated into different...
Affiliates: Finding Digital Signage Solution Opportunities
Digital Signage Uses Digital signage has tons of different uses. Almost everywhere you look now you're seeing new monitors popping up that have digital signage on them. Here are a few common uses Advertising: Advertising is a common digital signage opportunity. You...
Randomize Data Rows on Your Slide
DataPoint is mostly used to display the latest information dynamically on your PowerPoint slide. But sometimes people want to display random stuff. Like the joke of the day, quote of the day, etc.For all of the 25 data providers that you have in DataPoint, you can set...
FAQ: How do I Remove DataPoint From my PowerPoint Application?
I want to remove DataPoint from my PowerPoint application How do I Remove DataPoint From my PowerPoint Application? Sometimes you need to uninstall our software like the DataPoint add-on. This happens when a trial expired or when you want to move the add-on to another...
New York Office
Our recent business trip to New York was so successful, we decided to add New York to our existing presences to now provide coverage in the US, Canada, and Europe.Here is our New York mailing address.PresentationPoint1177 Avenue of the Americas, 7th floorNew York, NY...
Mail Merge PowerPoint Presentations – 4 Types
In this article, we are going to discuss how to create mail merge PowerPoints and what to use them for. PowerPoint is a perfect tool for mail-merging reports. What am I saying? PowerPoint is the best and cheapest way to do your mail-merged individual reports, but only...
FAQ: Old Data On Slide While Transitioning
With DataPoint you can link text boxes to data sources like files and databases. When the dynamic text box is used on a slide with a transition, then you will see old data during the transition since PowerPoint has made a bitmap or cache of the slide and it uses that...
10 Creative Ways to Use Data in Presentations
Here is a recording of Garland's presentation "10 Creative Ways to Use Data In Presentations" from our 2018 Presentation Ideas Conference. If you have comments or questions about the presentation, let us know. PresentationsData is increasingly important in business...
FAQ: On How Many Computers Can I Install the DataPoint Enterprise Edition?
How many users can the DataPoint Enterprise edition accommodate? We would like to find out more information about your Enterprise edition for DataPoint. How many users can the Enterprise edition accommodate? (users that are able to create data-driven presentations)...
Call for Speakers for 2019 Presentation Ideas Online Conference
Our 2018 Presentation Ideas Online Conference was a great success, so we are on for Presentation Ideas 2019!At this time, we are putting out the call for speakers to present at our online conference from Nov 20-21, 2019. If you are a speaker who would like to present...
PresentationPoint Comes to Western Canada!
We are pleased to announce that PresentationPoint will be exhibiting our software at the Western Manufacturing Technology Show at the Edmonton Expo Centre (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) from June 4-6, 2019. The show will be located in the Edmonton Expo Centre. During the...
Museum Digital Signage: The Wild Center
In this video we're going to do a case study for museum digital signage thanks to our client, The Wild Center who agreed to provide us with information about how they're using our tools and products to set up their museum digital signage. Here are the details in their...
How To Set Up Data-Driven Digital Signage
How to set up a data-driven digital signage solution? That is what we do. Providing software for data-driven presentations and digital signage. Basically, this is a combination of 2 our major products: DataPoint and iPoint. The setup is absolutely not complex, but...
Affiliate Training April 30
As part of our commitment to PresentationPoint affiliates, we offer regular affiliate training and brainstorming sessions. Our next session is scheduled for April 30, 2019 at 6 pm / 18:00 Western European Time 4 pm / 16:00 UTC 10 am Mountain Time If you are already an...
Personalized Videos: Employee Review Example
In this video and article, we will show you how to create personalized videos using PowerPoint. For this example, we have decided to use a situation where you might want to create personalized videos for each of your employees during your employee review process. Here...
Infoscreen Software
Technological advancement has led to the digitization of information. Digitized information allows you to know so much within a limited time frame. This can happen when the information is presented on an infoscreen with as few words as possible and with currently...
How to Start Affiliate Marketing With PresentationPoint?
Love our software? Want to share it with others and build another income stream? We'll show you how to get started with affiliate marketing with PresentationPoint. Here are just a few of the types of businesses and individuals we work with. If you work in any of these...
NEW: Full HD Weather Screen, an Expansion Pack for PowerPoint
We are bringing out a special expansion pack for our real-time weather display capabilities in DataPoint and Dynamic Weather. This expansion pack works great with our latest Weather provider service and is able to display today's weather and next days forecast as...
How to Create an Equipment Monitoring System Dashboard
Recently one of our customers who wishes to remain anonymous sent us a screenshot of how they set up an equipment monitoring system dashboard system using our software. There is a lot to unpack on this one single screen that shows a lot more than you think. Let's...
FAQ: PowerPoint Presentations on Multiple Screens
I am looking into something to play a PowerPoint presentation on multiple screens from one computer. I am looking into something to play a PowerPoint presentation on multiple screens from one computer. We are currently using 3 static images on 3 screens and we want to...
Airline Schedules & Customer Communication using Digital Signage – Air Tindi
Here is how Air Tindi, an airline based in Canada's far North uses digital signage for airline schedules and communicating with customers. Question: Tell us a bit about your company or organization or what you do. Answer:30 years of service and a Northern Based...
Video Advertising with PowerPoint
When you are in the train stations, airports, or shopping malls, you will see video advertising for clothing, electronic devices, bags, perfumes etc. everywhere. They are using very attractive and colorful television screens to broadcast their ads. These screens...
Recovering the Missing Excel Share Workbook Command
Many of you will have noticed that the Excel "share workbook" command is now missing in later versions. In this video and article, we will show you how to recover the Excel share workbook command. Many of our customers use our great DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint to...
Dynamic Digital Signage at Arts Center Hasselt
Another serious Belgian arts center, cultuurcentrum Hasselt, has chosen PresentationPoint software for the real-time data-driven information screens at their venue. They were using Xibo as free digital signage platform, displaying an HTML page reading out data from an...
Best Practices on how to Transition to Online Presenting – Sharyn Fitzpatrick
Here is Sharyn Fitzpatrick's fantastic presentation from our 2018 Presentation Ideas Conference. In a piece of impeccable timing, Sharyn put up a "Don't Panic" slide talking about what to do about technical difficulties, just as our software crashed. So we were able...
Sharing DataPoint Visuals in Real Time with your Audience
Guest blog article by CrowdbeamerCrowdbeamer is the first presentation system that streams any screen content wirelessly to all smartphones, tablets, and laptops in a live audience. That comes in very handy during any presentation, especially if you’re using DataPoint...
Service Status Report: Yahoo Weather API is Down
Affected products: DataPoint and Dynamic Weather We regret to inform you that Yahoo has terminated the Weather API on January 3, 2019. They are asking us to switch to their new API and new authentication system. We are currently waiting for approval from Yahoo. Once...
9 Techniques to Make Your Presentations Modern – Ellen Finkelstein
Here is a recording of Ellen Finkelstein's wonderful presentation from our Presentation Ideas Conference 2018. 9 Techniques to Make Your Presentations Modern — So You Don’t Look So Old! When you have millennials in your audience, you don’t want your presentations to...
What’s New in PowerPoint 2019?
A lot. Microsoft’s PowerPoint is no doubt one of the most versatile and most used Office applications. From helping people organize charts, statistics, data and information, to helping presenters pass information to an audience in the simplest and most visually...
TN Panel vs IPS: a Comparison
A monitor is a device used for displaying output or information. Example of places where monitors are used is in television, gaming. The most commonly used monitor display is the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) monitor. When purchasing or selecting an LCD monitor, it is...
Really Really Big PowerPoint (Screen Size – not file size) with Troy Chollar
Here is a recording of Troy Chollar's fantastic presentation from our Presentation Ideas Conference 2018. 40′ tall and 200′ wide, no problem for PowerPoint – if you know how! PowerPoint is behind a lot of multi-screen, large screen multimedia productions – it’s just...
Video Marketing: 10 Ways to Use Video in Your Marketing
Welcome to Video Marketing: 10 Ways to Use Videos in Your Marketing. Why is video so critical for marketing?YouTube is now bigger than primetime TV. More people watch YouTube than watch television at any given time. It's an amazing statistic.YouTube video search...
PowerPoint’s Zoom Feature: Your Key to Audience Engagement with Chantal Bossé
Here is Chantal Bossé's excellent presentation on the PowerPoint Zoom feature from our Presentation Ideas Online Conference 2018. Ever dreamed of being able to adapt your presentation content to your audience’s needs? Or skip some content altogether because you were...
Building Effective Dashboards
PowerPoint presentations are very time efficient and effective. Not only do they erase the burden of having to read a large chunk of text, they also afford you the opportunity to see the most important information instantly. With PowerPoint, data can be presented...
FAQ: Merge PowerPoint Presentations Into One Big Presentation
How to Merge PowerPoint presentations into one big presentation I have multiple PowerPoint created and they have DataPoint connections. I want to merge them together into one. How can I merge them together and keep all my DataPoint connections? I don't want to...
DataPoint Software Demo
We have created many videos showing various aspects of how DataPoint can be used to connect PowerPoint to data to create digital signage, digital menu boards, and data-driven presentations. But these videos are scattered across our blog and YouTube Channel, making it...
Case Study: City of Winter Springs
For our case study this time, we travel to the City of Winter Springs, Florida. Winter Springs is a city of 33,282 located in Seminole County Florida. The Problem The City of Winter Springs has bi-monthly Commission meetings between the public and their elected...
FAQ: How to Remotely Edit a Presentation?
How to Remotely Edit a Presentation? "If you need to edit your current presentation, do you need to take it down to edit it? How about remote editing, is that possible?" With our software, all the running slideshows are running as a temporary and locally copied file. ...
Data Driven Logistical Presentations
Why organizations need data-driven presentation software for its logistical sectorRelying on instincts is a dangerous game play that should be avoided by the most sophisticated organization as well as a new business.The United States boast of the most equipped...
PowerPoint Replaces Flash Digital Signage
CC De Werf is a Belgian arts center from Aalst that was already using a digital signage solution that they bought. This system was a Flash-based. To illustrate what they needed, they created a PowerPoint(!) slideshow that they would send to an external supplier who...
Interview with PowerPoint MVP Ellen Finkelstein
[Garland] Hello I'm Garland Coulson from PresentationPoint and today we're doing an interview with PowerPoint MVP, expert, speaker, trainer and best-selling author on PowerPoint Ellen Finkelstein. Ellen, welcome to the show. [Ellen] Thanks Garland, thanks for having...
Presentation Ideas Conference 2018
PresentationPoint is pleased to announce our first ever Presentation Ideas Online Conference. For the Presentation Ideas Conference, we have gathered together 7 great speakers to deliver 8 online presentations that provide tips on presenting, PowerPoint,...
PowerPoint Ticker Text Animation – 3 Easy Methods
A PowerPoint ticker text animation on your slides is great to use. Most people place or expect a text ticker, ticker tape or text marquee at the bottom of the presentation or television screen. There are a few good reasons to use a PowerPoint ticker: First of all, it...
DIY Digital Signage Fails
Once in a while, you as a man, you have to go shopping with your wife. So did I. 5 years ago, the shopping mall we were visiting, only had a limited number of digital signage screens where you see advertising. Nowadays, almost every shop has at least one monitor...
Flight Information Display System (FIDS) for Airports
When you are traveling by air, then you go to the airport and you look at the flight information screens that are present all over the airport. When you are departing then you first check the check in desk for your airline or flight. This flight information is...
If You Use PowerPoint for a Living…
Some of us use PowerPoint as a tool from time to time for business presentations. But for some of us, PowerPoint is more than that. Some of us use PowerPoint for a living... What kind of people use PowerPoint for a living? Here are a few examples: Professional...
LED Software Management Using PowerPoint
Our customer AB Inbev (Leuven plant in Belgium) asked us to use a data-driven presentation for their LED signage wall in the entrance of the brewery. They already had this LED display operational, mainly showing the number of days since the last accident, then a...
10 Secrets to Exceptional Presentations
In this video and article, we share our "10 Secrets to Exceptional Presentations" to help you avoid Death by PowerPoint. #1. Start With the Outcome in Mind Start your exceptional presentations by having a clearly defined outcome for the presentation in your...
Dynamic Trivia Quiz
A Trivia quiz is always great. Questions, suspension, doubt, reaction speed, fun and a good humor. Who needs more to break the ice and to spend some time with friends or family? Typically for Trivia, you get a question for a given point of interest, e.g. like sports...
Industry 4.0: Importance of Data and Signals and Triggers
Manufacturing has been taken to a whole new level. As a matter of fact, Industry 4.0 is considered the fourth industrial revolution. A massive yet expected leap from computerization and automation to cyber physical systems. Simply put, machines finally get to...
Visit us at the Presentation Summit in San Diego, CA, USA
PresentationPoint is an official partner of the Presentation Summit being held in San Diego, CA, USA from September 23 till 26. Come and visit us here for more information and news on our products. Have you heard about the Presentation Summit? Four days, dozens of...
Countdown Timer Display
Countdown timer displays are often used for counting down to a specific date, or a timer to count since there is a specific date. Countdowns are often used to count down to New Year, Christmas, the end of the Ramadan, opening of a new shop, to show how long a speaker...
Logistics Dashboards Using PowerPoint
When you work with a lot of data, it is really boring to stare on the huge sheets of numbers in Excel or similar software. It is much better to visualize the information and present it in a form of chart, graphs or infographics - like logistics dashboards. No doubts...
Gun Ownership Infographic – Display Data Visually
We created this gun ownership infographic to show you how you can use PowerPoint to visually show data. Click on the infographic to see it full size. What is an Infographic? "Infographics" is a shortened compound word from "information" and "graphics." Infographics...
Dynamic PowerPoint Font Size Scaling
A text box is the most used shape on your PowerPoint slides and it can comes in various flavors and colors. A text box can simply contain one word, multiple words or maybe multiple lines of text. But how do you handle variable text that might range from 10 characters...
FAQ: Phone to TV: Camera Output from Telephones in PowerPoint
In this FAQ we will show you how to stream your camera video from your phone to tv by capturing a live IP camera output from a telephone and showing it on your PowerPoint slideshow. Hi, using VideoPoint on PowerPoint 2016. I tried to connect the iPhone camera via IP...
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