Jun 11, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage
In today’s highly competitive marketplace, businesses should adopt intensive cost-cutting to stay ahead of the curve. Undertaking as many tasks as possible in-house or yourself is an effective way to cut costs. Professional digital signage services are costly. So, you...
Jun 4, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Financial
In this video, we are going to show you how to create a live crude oil price dashboard in PowerPoint using our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint. Click on the video below to see our process. Live Crude Oil Price from Web URL Our first attempt was to gather the...
May 31, 2021 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Evergreen, Tutorials
Here is a recording of our recent webinar, “Event Promotion Using PowerPoint.” PowerPoint Create as Video: Quality and File Size How to Hide Video Media Controls on Slideshows FAQ: Should I Export Presentation to 4K Video? Voter Turnout Personalized Videos...
May 11, 2021 | Articles, How-To
A surprising message from Microsoft recently. Microsoft is going to replace its default font. Originally it started with Times New Roman and with Office 2007 it switched to the current Calibri font which was the default font for the last 15 years. Now Microsoft is...
May 10, 2021 | Articles, How-To
Tech-giant Microsoft recently announced 2 new versions of Office. A consumer Office 2021 version and Office LTSC for commercial customers. They will become available later this year for both macOS and Windows. After Office 2016, Microsoft started to promote more of...
May 4, 2021 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Makeovers
Today’s story is from Torsten Maier, a student at Penn State. Torsten wanted to re-make a favorite Pokeman board game for his sister that they played in their childhood. Torsten didn’t want to make all the Pokemon tiles by hand, so he Googled ways to...
Apr 27, 2021 | Articles, Digital Signage, SignageTube
Many businesses have screens they want to put signage up on. Up to now, that’s been a pain. You have to create something in one program and manually load it to the screen. Changing it is a lot of work, until now. SignageTube makes all of this a lot easier. And now,...
Feb 28, 2021 | Articles, MessagePoint
PresentationPoint is proud to introduce: MessagePoint, the most powerful communication tool your office has. MessagePoint uses your company’s screensaver, background images, and push notifications to keep your team informed, motivated, and moving together. It allows...
Feb 23, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint Automation
While it is a useful tool, it is unusual that a PowerPoint presentation becomes a major player player in international politics and tension. Let’s look at how the Meng Wanzhou PowerPoint became the “smoking gun” that has lead to multiple arrests and...
Feb 9, 2021 | Articles, Tutorials
By popular demand, here is a recording of Chantal Bossé’s recent webinar she taught for our members – “PowerPoint for Video Production.” Please hit the like and subscribe buttons on our YouTube channel to encourage us to continue creating...
Jan 26, 2021 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Financial
PowerPoint navigation is an underutilized feature. You can use navigation to create interactive presentations, kiosk presentations, directories and much more. Let’s explore how to use PowerPoint navigation to create a self-guided client presentations that your...
Dec 14, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, Government, Logistics, Military or Defense, Reporting
PresentationPoint is proud that our software is used in military planning for mission-critical situations needed by people who serve in military organizations. Our software is used by such militaries as the US Air Force and US Army. Recently we created a custom...
Dec 1, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint
DataPoint is absorbing TickerPoint. We already have our DataPoint plugin to connect text boxes, and other PowerPoint shapes to real-time data and data sources. With a normal text box, text is shown: left aligned, centered, or right aligned. But the text is placed...
Nov 24, 2020 | Articles
When you want to show a video in full screen on a PowerPoint slideshow, then you can insert that video to slide. When you are using this slideshow for your information screens at the company, then you want it to start automatically. To start a video automatically,...
Nov 20, 2020 | Articles, Tutorials
Here is a recording of Richard Goring’s fantastic “Cool New PowerPoint Functions in Office 365” webinar he taught for our PresentationPoint audience. In addition to his great teaching we caught on video, Richard has also generously provided us with a...
Nov 17, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Would you be watching screens and channels for a long time when you assume that they are just showing old content on their digital signage television screens? Probably not. People want to see real-time data, accurate information, the latest key performance indicators...
Nov 10, 2020 | Articles, How-To
This article will help you to set up a digital menu board for your restaurant, take-away, bar, or coffee shop. Back in the old days, people used menus on paper, but they were expensive to create, and expensive to update because you had to reprint them. Or they used...
Nov 5, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Our lives are filled with data. Step counters, sleep monitors, earnings reports, the list goes on. From the second we wake up, to when we go to sleep, we are consuming data. Not all methods of consuming data are created equal, though. This is demonstrated by the...
Oct 26, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, Elections, Government, Maps
Elections are a great time for people who love data. In this video and article, we will show you some different ways to show US elections polls data in PowerPoint. Step 1: Assemble US Elections Poll Data The first step is to assemble the data. I found some US...
Oct 24, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Elections, Evergreen, Government, Non-profit
In this video, we show you how you can create personalized voter turnout videos using PowerPoint. The examples shown are for the US election, but will also work for any country, state, province, or municipal election. This could be used to increase voter turnout on a...
Oct 17, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
People in western countries spend up to 12 hours per day looking at screens. As I write this article, I’ve easily spent 36 hours over the past three days either staring at my computer screen, television screen, phone. Screens have undeniably become a massive part of...
Oct 3, 2020 | Articles
What is NUMBERISH or NUM8ER1SH? Today, all of the information we need, across the entire world, is at our fingertips. Unfortunately, all of the information we need, across the entire world, is at our fingertips. What we mean to say is: the information you’re searching...
Sep 26, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation
Westerners spend over 12 hours per day staring at their various devices. Along with this, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every single day. We’re not at the precipice of this trend yet, either. Humans will continue to generate and consume data in larger...
Aug 2, 2020 | Articles
PresentationPoint is an official partner of the Presentation Summit going virtual this year, on screens and devices around the globe, on August 10-13, 2020. Headlining the event will be Garr Reynolds, one of the most acclaimed and iconic figures in the presentation...
Jul 25, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Food & Beverage
Here is a digital signage case study about how an ice cream parlor, Two Scoop Steve in British Columbia, Canada, uses our software. Tell us a bit about your company or organization and what you do. We are small Ice Cream Shop and Cafe located in the East Kootenay...
Jul 11, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, Tutorials
Here is the recording of Richard Goring’s “Masterclass in PowerPoint Design” presentation at our Presentation Ideas Europe 2020 online conference. About PresentationPoint Case Studies: How People Use Our Software Presentation Ideas Europe No More...
Jul 4, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, Tutorials
Here is a recording of Simon Morton’s presentation from our 2020 Presentation Ideas Europe online conference – The Pitfalls of Presentation (In)Efficiency. About PresentationPoint Case Studies: How People Use Our Software Presentation Ideas Europe No More...
Jun 27, 2020 | Articles
Here is the recording of Garland Coulson’s “Creating and Promoting Online Courses” webinar from our Presentation Ideas Europe 2020 online conference. About PresentationPoint Case Studies: How People Use Our Software Presentation Ideas...
Jun 20, 2020 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
As promised, here is a recording of Kurt Dupont’s presentation from our Presentation Ideas Europe 2020 Online Conference, “How to Create Data-Driven Presentations in PowerPoint.” About PresentationPoint Case Studies: How People Use Our Software...
Jun 11, 2020 | Articles
If there’s one thing that the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, it’s that being able to share important information quickly and effectively is one of our best ways to tackle an international crisis. Governments across the world have utilised everything from...
Jun 1, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
The Airtable service is an all-in-one collaboration platform to create and maintain lists like to bug tracking, expenses, spreadsheets, project reporting, product planning, product catalogs, and many more. You can easily share your lists and documents with others. Use...
May 12, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Retail
Practically all shops and public spaces were closed due to the Covid-19 virus and the world came to a standstill. Now, it looks like governments are allowing shops to open again, but with limitations. A most important limitation is the social distancing and the...
May 11, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Food & Beverage, Retail
What is Multiscreen Digital Signage? Multiscreen digital signage is where you have your messages shown on more than one screen in your facility. This lets you ensure that your messages and information can be seen throughout your facility so that you can keep all your...
May 5, 2020 | Articles, How-To
Most modern televisions have a usb slot on them so that you can put your pictures and videos on your usb drive and show them on your television. But is a usb drive useful for digital signage or should you have a dedicated digital signage media player? When I travel, I...
May 3, 2020 | Articles, Attractions and Events, CounterPoint, Financial, Food & Beverage, Healthcare
Streamlining your waiting queues is important for the well-being of your customers. It brings tranquility to your waiting area and it takes away stress. Imagine that you have to ask something, or arrange something. You go to that business or that location. That can be...
Apr 24, 2020 | Articles, Dynamic elements
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....
Apr 23, 2020 | Articles
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....
Apr 21, 2020 | Articles
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...
Apr 13, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Apr 6, 2020 | Articles
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....
Apr 4, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, Evergreen, Government, iPoint, Reporting
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...
Mar 26, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
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...
Mar 24, 2020 | Articles, How-To
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...
Mar 21, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Retail
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...
Mar 18, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
There are tools available to show websites on PowerPoint slides like LiveWeb and LiveSlides (EDIT: website seems to be down – link removed). I’m recommending them often. You can use that to draw a web browser object on your slide, and then specify the URL...
Mar 18, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, How-To
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...
Mar 16, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Healthcare, How-To
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...
Mar 14, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, Interoffice Communication, Logistics
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....
Mar 12, 2020 | Articles
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...
Mar 7, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Healthcare, Maps
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...
Feb 22, 2020 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
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...
Feb 13, 2020 | Articles
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...
Feb 4, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
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...
Feb 4, 2020 | Articles
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...
Feb 1, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To
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...
Jan 30, 2020 | Articles
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...
Jan 15, 2020 | Articles
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...
Jan 2, 2020 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Food & Beverage, Retail
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...
Dec 27, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Dec 20, 2019 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Evergreen, Interoffice Communication, iPoint, Reporting
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...
Dec 14, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time 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...
Dec 12, 2019 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Tutorials
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...
Dec 11, 2019 | Articles, How-To
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...
Dec 10, 2019 | Articles, How-To, Tutorials
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...
Dec 9, 2019 | Articles, How-To, Tutorials
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...
Dec 7, 2019 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Dec 6, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, Reporting, Tutorials
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...
Dec 5, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
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,...
Dec 4, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
This is a recording of Geetesh Bajaj’s presentation at our 2019 Presentation Ideas Online Conference. Download PDF of Geetesh's Presentation Here About Geetesh Bajaj Geetesh Bajaj is an awarded Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for over...
Dec 3, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
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,...
Nov 30, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Nov 23, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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. Become a...
Nov 9, 2019 | Articles
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...
Nov 2, 2019 | Articles
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...
Oct 26, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Oct 19, 2019 | Articles, FAQ, 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?...
Oct 12, 2019 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Financial, Government, Reporting
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...
Oct 11, 2019 | Articles
​Looking back over a successful Presentation Summit in San Antonio, Texas. We connected to designers, presentation enthusiasts, people from the Microsoft PowerPoint team, PowerPoint Most Valuable Professionals, and fellow exhibitors. This year we introduced our new...
Oct 5, 2019 | Articles
Undoubtedly Microsoft Excel is amongst the best tools for increased productivity in our workplace today. Microsoft Excel helps workers perform their assigned tasks easily. The use of Microsoft Excel has greatly improved productivity in organizations. It offers a...
Sep 28, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
The digital signage advertising system is growing and advancing in capabilities. As a result, many small businesses are beginning to adopt this system of advertisement. The idea behind social media as regards to advertising businesses some years back is now what...
Sep 21, 2019 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
When you work in a warehouse, bank, logistic company, plant, factory, or many others, you most probably work with dashboards. Have you ever met an ugly dashboard? Have you met an information panel that did not inform you, but confused you with the information that it...
Sep 7, 2019 | Articles
Digital Signage is on the rise, with experts predicting the industry’s worth to grow to the astonishing $32.8 billion by 2023. But as the market grows, so does demand and to offer our clients the same cutting-edge level of service, we are delighted to introduce the...
Sep 2, 2019 | Articles
More than 1 year we have been working very hard on a revolutionary new product that is a digital signage software solution in the cloud. We baptized this new product SignageTube. Signage from digital signage, and Tube inspired by YouTube.com. The conceptual design of...
Aug 30, 2019 | Articles
Here is another sneak preview about the new product that PresentationPoint is releasing.We will take-off in exactly 72 hours. Case Studies: How People Use Our Software Reviews from our Customers About...
Aug 24, 2019 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint, iPoint
When walking around in an exhibition center the most important subject is way finding. Most exhibitions have arrows in the air or lines on the ground but more centers are switching to digital signage solutions. Displaying the arrows on a monitor is the future. Look...
Aug 20, 2019 | Articles
We’ve been busy working on a new secret stealth mode product. Curious? Stay tuned for more information in September 2019 when all will be revealed… Case Studies: How People Use Our Software Reviews from our Customers About...
Aug 17, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Reporting
The best way to achieve effectiveness in business reporting is the direct approach. If you want to pass your points across to stakeholders and get them to listen, appreciate and enforce, you must be clear, simple and direct. When presenting a report, you must arrange...
Aug 14, 2019 | Articles
PresentationPoint is excited to announce that Justin Arnold will be presenting at the Presentation Ideas 2019 online conference.Here is more information abou this presentation.7 Ways To Create Highly Versatile Non Linear PresentationsSo you learned PowerPoint so well...
Aug 10, 2019 | Articles, Broadcasting, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements, Evergreen, Weather
In this article, a professional meteorologist, James Longwith, shares with us how he uses our weather software, Dynamic Elements, to create real-time weather reports.Here are James’ answers to our questions about how he is using our weather software. Tell us a...
Aug 3, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
We have just put together an extensive page highlighting 25 different PowerPoint integrations that you can make using our software. This includes integrations relating to: Digital Signage Facebook Google Calendar Google Sheets JSON Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel...
Aug 1, 2019 | Articles
PresentationPoint is pleased to welcome Vickie Gould as a new presenter at our November Presentation Ideas 2019 online conference. Here is some information about Vickie and her presentation.Be Memorable and Close More Sales with StoryWhat’s the use of great teaching...
Jul 27, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Looking for improved connectivity and internal communication? Digital Signage Screen is one screen that motivates through interconnectedness and engagement. It is providing your team with the smartest solutions specifically for communication. Not only for big...
Jul 13, 2019 | Articles
We are pleased to announce that PresentationPoint will be at the Oil Sands Conference & Trade Show in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada from Sept 10-11, 2019. Our goal is to connect with people in the oil and gas industry to discuss ways that our software can be used...
Jul 10, 2019 | Articles
PresentationPoint is pleased to announce that Chantal Bossé is returning to speak at our Presentation Ideas 2019 online conference. Chantal’s presentation last year (PowerPoint’s Zoom Feature: Your Key to Audience Engagement) was well received and this...
Jul 6, 2019 | Articles
PresentationPoint is an official gold partner of the Presentation Summit being held in San Antonio, TX, USA from October 6 till 9, 2019. Come and visit us here for more information and news on our products. Have you heard about the Presentation Summit? Four days,...
Jun 8, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Designers of traffic signs and wayfinding signage in public buildings need to put in a lot of thought into designing wayfinding signage that is easy to process by people who frequent the location. Texts used to be widely used in the past when designing public...
May 28, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Why Your Neglect of This Reporting Tool May Be The Biggest Business Growth Mistake… You’re Making. PowerPoint? Yes! You may have been enchanted by the beauty of PowerPoint as a presentation tool… But, do you know that you can use PowerPoint to create...
May 18, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
We call this video “from Porsche to NASA: a day in our sales department”. This video isn’t about fast machines although Porsche has very fast machines and NASA’s are even faster, rather this was a day that our sales department told us about...
Apr 27, 2019 | Articles
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...
Apr 25, 2019 | Articles
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....
Apr 19, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Apr 17, 2019 | Articles
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...
Apr 9, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Apr 3, 2019 | Articles
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...
Apr 1, 2019 | Articles
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...
Mar 29, 2019 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Evergreen, Non-profit
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...
Mar 20, 2019 | Articles
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...
Mar 16, 2019 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, How-To, Merge
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...
Mar 9, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
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...
Mar 6, 2019 | Articles
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...
Mar 3, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements, How-To
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...
Feb 16, 2019 | Articles, Aviation, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Dynamic elements, Evergreen
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...
Feb 9, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
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...
Feb 2, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, How-To
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...
Jan 19, 2019 | Articles
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...
Jan 12, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Guest blog article by Crowdbeamer Crowdbeamer 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...
Jan 5, 2019 | Articles, Tutorials
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...
Dec 31, 2018 | Articles
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...
Dec 29, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Dec 22, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Tutorials
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...
