Automatic Slide Master Updates
I guess that not many people use and know the slide master option of PowerPoint. The slide master is the starting position of your slide where you can control the zones on your slides, default shapes, colors, backgrounds, fonts, etc. Basically what you put on your...
Trial of Dynamic Elements Plugins
As of today, we have free trial setups available for everyone who wants to try out our great Dynamic Elements plugins. We have 7 Dynamic Elements for you: Dynamic Likes to show the number of Facebook likes that you have a business Facebook page that you administer....
Communicating With People With No Internet Access
During times of crisis such as the recent Covid-19 outbreak, many of us turn to the Internet to keep informed. But what about people with no Internet access at home? According to Statistica, in January 2020, only 59% of the world's population are Internet users. How...
Presentation Ideas Europe Online Conference May 28
The success of our Presentation Ideas online conferences has lead to us deciding to have two conferences this year. Presentation Ideas Europe which is more convenient for people in European, African and Asian time zones and Presentation Ideas West which is more...
New DataPoint Feature: Google Analytics Data Provider
Do you want to show your Google Analytics data, and KPI's in real-time on a television screen? Or maybe you want to open your PowerPoint presentation or report with Google Analytics data, and immediately look at the latest updated information without doing a thing? Or...
Live Cameras in PowerPoint (webcams, IP cameras and streaming videos)
You can connect a few types of cameras to your computer. First of all, we have the (internal or external) webcam. You can connect your photo or video camera. Or (via a long way) you can connect to any IP camera worldwide. Think about security cameras in a shop, mall...
Automating PowerPoint from Excel
When automating PowerPoint data presentations, Excel worksheets are a great tool to use. You can open a presentation and always see the latest Excel info on your slides. No more copying over your Excel data to PowerPoint in order to present or distribute it. Or maybe...
New DataPoint Feature: Salesforce Data Provider
We are happy to announce that our software engineers have released a new DataPoint feature. They have added a new data provider to the already extensive list of data providers. You can now connect your PowerPoint presentation to a Salesforce account to show or report...
Salesforce PowerPoint Integration Now Available
We are very excited to announce that Salesforce PowerPoint integration is now available with our DataPoint software. This is a powerful new data source for your data-driven presentations, dashboards and reporting.What is Salesforce? Salesforce is one of the world's...
Airplane In-Flight Information Screen
I admit! I'm addicted to digital signage and information screens. Everywhere I look, I see samples of information screens or scenarios where people better can use information screens to enhance businesses, processes, and flows. Even in the air when I recently flew...
New DataPoint Feature: Facebook Posts Data Provider
General Facebook Page information like the number of likes in general etc, could already be displayed in real-time on your PowerPoint slides. Now we have added a new feature, a new data provider to DataPoint. You can now show Facebook Posts in real-time with our new...
Dark Sky Weather API Will Retire
We once added a new weather API to our DataPoint product at times that the Yahoo weather API was having hard times and had outages for longer periods. That made us select the Dark Sky weather API, and we integrated it for real-time weather information and forecasts....
Smart City Project – Software Tools
In this video and article, we are going to explore how our software can be used for your smart city project - to make your community or city truly data-driven.Smart City Project Concept What is a Smart City Project? This is a project meant to collect data from people,...
Facebook Page Data in PowerPoint
Gain more Facebook likes by showing your Facebook Likes counter in real-time at your shop. Visitors and customers will like to like your Facebook business page to get more promotions, news and updates from your company. You are working hard to be creative and social...
New Feature: Data Scrolling Progression Indicator
Our DataPoint plugin for PowerPoint has many but one great feature to mail merge data into presentations. Mail merging is the method of taking the data from a data source like Excel or database and then generate multiple customized documents. A good example is...
Coronavirus Tips PowerPoint Template
To help with the current coronavirus emergency, we have put together these free coronavirus tips Powerpoint slide templates for you to use. The slides include coronavirus prevention tips, symptoms and instructions on what to do if you have symptoms. Feel free to...
Report Generating Using PowerPoint Case Study – HPE
In this real-life case study, we explore how Hewlett Packard Enterprise uses our DataPoint software for report generating using PowerPoint.The Report Generating Problem Here is a quote from Nicole Mitchell, Customer Experience with Hewlett Packard Enterprise as to the...
Creative PowerPoint Uses You Wouldn’t Think Of
Most of us have come across Microsoft PowerPoint at one point, whether we had to give a presentation or sit in on a presentation where the speaker was using PowerPoint. But presentations are only the tip of the iceberg - Here are some creative PowerPoint uses you may...
Office 365: How to Open an Excel Workbook by Multiple Users?
Excel is a great tool to quickly store and calculate data and is probably more used than a real database system. Why? Because everyone has it, you don't need to install and configure a database system, no real database design needed. You just start with a new document...
Import All Your Sales Data to PowerPoint
Sales reporting requires a direct approach in communicating data, an approach that will covey swiftly and effectively the interpretation of sales to its audience. The use of PowerPoint proffers a direct approach that gives your audience a quick understanding and...
Show Websites in PowerPoint
There are tools available to show websites on PowerPoint slides like LiveWeb and LiveSlides. I'm recommending them often. You can use that to draw a web browser object on your slide, and then specify the URL to show in there. When you run your slideshow, you will see...
Work Lessons from Coronavirus
Work Lessons from Coronavirus With the Coronavirus spreading around the world, many companies and organizations, including our own are having to quickly adapt as this situation affects staffing, travel plans, and many aspects of our operation. Here are some of the...
Travel & Health Care Digital Signage – Coronavirus
The Coronavirus spread has had a major impact on the world. In this article we will talk about how you can use travel and health care digital signage to keep people informed and help slow the spread of the Coronavirus. These techniques can also be used in other...
Conference Room Booking Case Study – Edesia Nutrition
In this article, we explore how a non-profit organization, Edesia Nutrition, handles conference room booking and their warehouse logistics calendar using our DataPoint software. To help understand their use case, we asked management at Edesia a series of questions....
Digital Signage Expo 2020 (DSE) • Las Vegas • Postponed
The organization of the Digital Signage Expo decided to postpone the exhibition due to the travel ban and Covid-19 virus. The expo is postponed to the late summer or early fall 2020. UPDATE Mar 25 2020: DSE 2020 New Show Dates: Sept 15 – 18Las Vegas...
Show Coronavirus Data in PowerPoint
In this video and article, we are going to show you how to add real-time Coronavirus data or any other real-time data to PowerPoint using our software tool, DataPoint.Finding Coronavirus Data The first step to displaying any real-time data is to find out where to get...
How to Create Complex Data-Driven PowerPoint Dashboards
We recently created this data-driven dashboard in PowerPoint by connecting our presentation to a database with our DataPoint plugin. The result is quite astonishing. The database is basically a dummy, where we have a small utility to execute random updates on the...
Using OPC Communication to Create Real-Time Monitoring Dashboards
OPC defines a revolutionized way of going about industrial processes. OPC, being an aggregation of Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control is currently adopted for use in control processes in smart industries today. In simpler terms, OPC is Open Process...
One World Observatory Visitor Information Screen
The One World Observatory is located at the One World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, USA. This building was a tribute to the tragedy that happened at 9/11 (2001) with the Twin Towers. It recently opened in 2014, and Observatory itself opened mid 2015 and is...
Join PresentationPoint at Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas
PresentationPoint Invites You to Enter the World of Experience Technologies at DSE 2020! PresentationPoint is proud to be exhibiting at Digital Signage Expo 2020, and we would love for you to join us! Register with our promo code 17C2D4 for a FREE Exhibit Pass or...
How to Export Presentation to Video
PowerPoint is such a great and easy tool to create your digital signage videos. You will find professional and great designed ready-made templates, as well as you can create your own digital signage presentations. Use a slide per message, or a slide per product or...
Send a PowerPoint Directly to a Television Screen
We are proud to announce that we have completed a new development. Some revolutionary development in the digital signage world. We can announce that we now have a SignageTube player app for smart TVs. SignageTube is our digital signage in the cloud solution where you...
Call for Speakers for 2020
We are looking for speakers for our 2020 Presentation Ideas Online Conferences. The Presentation Ideas Conferences are annual online conferences that brings together expert presenters and PowerPoint instructors to help attendees bring their presentations to the next...
How to Build Fundraising Screens
Fundraising is a way of collecting voluntary contributions or donations for a purpose. From door to door, on a shopping street, on television, on the internet, Facebook collections etc. Fundraising is on the rise, especially due to social media. Think about...
Media Expo Exhibition 2020 • Mumbai
PresentationPoint and its partner Quick Report will exhibit at the upcoming Media Expo Exhibition 2020. This event will take place between Feb 20 and 22, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai, India. PresentationPoint and Quick Report will showcase...
How to Add Video to PowerPoint
Video is so much richer than a slide with text and images. You can create great visuals when you combine the flexibility of PowerPoint to design a slide, and a video that you add to your slide. The combined result is astonishing. A video is the result of live or...
Announcement: DataPoint Industrial Edition & OPC
Presentation of data is key to the success of an organization. It helps to communicate with stakeholders regarding product development, sales and other crucial information regarding the company. PresentationPoint is a leading developer of PowerPoint add-ins that has...
Digital Signage Expo 2020 (DSE) • Las Vegas
PresentationPoint will exhibit at the upcoming Digital Signage Expo 2020. This event will take place between Mar 31 and April 3, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevada, USA. PresentationPoint will showcase their DataPoint and iPoint products, as well as the...
New: DataPoint 3.0 with Subscription
DataPoint is a software solution that can create real-time connections to any data source. It can extract data from a different sources and use them to present information in the form of infographics, charts, or graphs on your slides. This is a way of simplifying the...
Use PowerPoint to Create Digital Signage Movies
In the 21st century, communication and interaction between organizations and the public have been transformed by advances in technology. In the past few years, a majority of companies and organizations have replaced traditional signage with digital signage, which...
How can Visual Communication be Applied to Enhance Communication?
Visual Communication refers to the transmission of ideas and information using imagery and symbols. Visual Communication is nothing using visuals like graphs, charts, clip art, and diagrams to represent information. Visual Communication plays a significant role in our...
Information Boards: VINCI Energies Case Study
In this article, we will explore how Jo De Saunois of VINCI Energies uses digital information boards created using PresentationPoint to communicate important company and safety information across it's network of offices in Belgium.The Network of Information Boards...
How to Build Digital Signage Information Screens
It is undeniable that communication and interaction between organizations and the public have been transformed by technological advancements witnessed in the 21st century. Previously, organizations conveyed their messages, announcements, and other relevant information...
Creating KPI Dashboards in PowerPoint • Garland Coulson
Here is a recording of Garland Coulson's presentation from our 2019 Presentation Ideas Conference. Creating KPI Dashboards in PowerPoint You use dashboards every day you drive your car. Your car dashboard monitors speed, fuel, engine temperature and other key...
Be Memorable and Close More Sales with Story • Vickie Gould
Here is Vickie Gould's presentation from our 2019 Presentation Ideas Conference. Be Memorable and Close More Sales with Story What’s the use of great teaching points if your audience never remembers it or buys what you’re selling? Be the presentation that everyone...
Taking Advantage of Artificial Intelligence with PowerPoint O365 • Chantal Bossé
Here is a recording Chantal Bossé's presentation from our 2019 Presentation Ideas Conference. Taking Advantage of Artificial Intelligence with PowerPoint O365 Few people realize that AI is also a part of their PowerPoint O365 tool. In this session we will see 3...
7 Ways To Create Highly Versatile Non-Linear Presentations • Justin Arnold
Here is a recording of Justin Arnold's presentation from our Presentation Ideas 2019 Conference. 7 Ways To Create Highly Versatile Non Linear Presentations So you learned PowerPoint so well you could do it backwards? Well why does every presentation start at the...
Te Puke High School: Countdown to a Special Event
I highly recommend DataPoint, which is one of the software packages offered by PresentationPoint. My name is Alan Liddle and I am the Principal of Te Puke High School in New Zealand. Each year, I organise a trip for a group of our students to travel overseas to...
Generating Reports Using PowerPoint • Kurt Dupont
Here is a recording of Kurt Dupont's presentation at our Presentation Ideas 2019 Online Conference. Generating Reports Using PowerPoint When you think of business reports, you probably think of Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word, not PowerPoint. If so, you are missing...
Countdown to New Year 2020
The last countdown event of the year is always the countdown that we all do; the countdown with family and friends to New Year. Think about Times Square, New York. That is the best example of counting down to New Year. You can create that same effect in your office,...
Working With Shapes in PowerPoint • Geetesh Bajaj
This is a recording of Geetesh Bajaj's presentation at our 2019 Presentation Ideas Online Conference.About Geetesh Bajaj Geetesh Bajaj is an awarded Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for over 18 years now, and has been designing and training with...
Countdown to Christmas 2019
A computer or television screen that counts down to next Christmas, creates attention and Xmas-awareness. This awareness is very important for shops. Public holidays or celebrations generate extra sales. Imagine Valentine. When you see that tomorrow it is Valentine,...
Silent Visual Communication is the Future in Shared Spaces
A recent Tweet caught my attention. Loop Fountain wrote 'Motion background loop designer for digital signage. Create and manage your own content with eye-catching loops and PowerPoint!'. Reason enough for me to connect directly. The person behind Loop Fountain is...
PresentationPoint Software Overview
We put together this overall showing ALL of our software products so our clients, and resellers will better understand what we offer. Let us know what you think of the video and, if you want to know more about any of these software product, contact us. Software Case...
Add a Daily Cartoon to your Office Communication Screen
Information screens at offices and factories are a great way of communicating with your personnel and colleagues. We have written that already before many times. You can display company messages, safety instructions, announcements, achievements, new employees,...
How Many PresentationPoint Licenses Do I Need?
Sometimes it can get confusing to know how many PresentationPoint software licenses you need for your project. So we decided to put together an article to help you understand which licenses are needed and how many for a range of projects.If your project doesn't fit...
Consumer vs Professional Displays for Digital Signage
Digital signage or dynamic signage is a process of displaying information’s or adverts through audiovisuals in public places. They are centrally controlled distribution systems which enables digital contents to be played back through high contrast screens. Digital...
PowerPoint for Digital Signage vs Traditional Presentation Editors
Digital signage is a modern method of displaying information and contents that are targeted at a particular niche kept in a public or private space. However, digital signage is not just a display screen. It comprises of the entire opponent that work together to...
Digital Signage: SignageTube vs iPoint
I know that many of you who have followed PresentationPoint for some time and have seen our SignageTube launch information are smart enough to have probably noticed something odd. You might be thinking something like... "SignageTube for digital signage? Wait, doesn't...
Reporting Software PowerPoint: SG Nordic Case Study
In this article and video, we are going to look at a real-life case study showing how PowerPoint can be used as reporting software. Thank you to Chen Buber, CFO of SG Nordic for taking the time to provide us with details of his process and how he is using DataPoint to...
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