- When you are adding or editing slides, the visitors to your blog/website will be seeing live the unfinished changes that you are making
- When you want to have the original version linked to on the site while wanting to have the revised version private or shared only to a group
Asfaar Burhaniyah 2.0
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Zoho Show with another cool Slideshow embed tip
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Best Presentations Contest
Think you make interesting presentations? Then here’s a good opportunity for you to get some recognition for your creativity.
SlideShare, that is home to tens of thousands of PowerPoint presentations, is running a contest to award some of the world’s best, you guessed it right, presentations.
Your entry need not be a corporate style presentation – you can even submit picture slide shows, your school lesson plan done in PowerPoint or even slidecasts that have audio narrations / music.
If you need some inspiration, check these excellent presentations.
The presentation that win maximum votes from SlideShare members will be passed on to a jury who will handpick the winners. The jury includes Guy Kawasaki, Nancy Duarte, Garr Reynolds and Bert Decker.
Zoho Show Updates
As you may know, there were recent updates to Zoho Sheet and Zoho Writer. Continuing on the series of updates, the below new functionalities in Zoho Show are now available.
1. Export to PPT, PPS, PDF, ODP : Zoho Show has long had the ‘Export as HTML’ option. Now we have added the much needed ppt, pps, pdf & odp file export options as well. After opening a presentation, click on the Export button. You will find the new options
2. Languages support : 9 new languages. In addition to English, the Zoho Show UI can now be set to one of these languages too : Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Europe), Spanish & Swedish
3. Personal Groups and Contacts support : Click on Share. You will see the Add Contacts, Add Groups option.
Group the email addresses of your contacts (work, family etc). Useful when repeatedly sharing presentations (need not type all the email addresses again). Also, all your Zoho contacts - the ones who you have shared documents with, from your Zoho Mail account etc - get listed while you share a presentation (auto-suggest feature which will help you in easily picking up who to share a presentation with.
4. Undo/Redo : You can now undo/redo upto 50 actions. You can see the new undo & redo buttons in the toolbar
5. Picasa Integration : Click on the Insert Image icon. You can see Picasa listed along with Flickr (which was already there). You can insert public pictures from your Picasa account
6. Remote Presentation - UI enhancements : Click on Remote -> Make Remote. Try making a remote presentation. You will see a chat tab to the right. The Notes tab is open (for the presenter alone) below the slide area. And the slide area size can be adjusted (to accomodate notes)7. Embed Enhancements (Advanced Options) : Click on Publish -> Embed in Website/Blog. You will see the ‘Advanced Options’ link. Clicking on it opens a new window. There are options like how big you want the embedded preso to be, if you want the toolbar included etc. You can see that the embed HTML code snippet changes according to the options being chosen
8. Copy/Paste slides from one presentation to another : Open two presentations in separate browser tabs. You can copy-paste from one to another.