PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques

Presentation Cartoons from Vlad Kolarov at BetterCartoon.com

Since presenters are always looking for ways to enhance their presentations visually,  I thought I'd share the work of professional cartoonist, Vlad Kolarov.  He has 1000+ business/office cartoons and illustrations that can be a nice addition to a presentation.  He also creates custom cartoons.

His clients include Yahoo Inc., Reader's Digest, CHUM Limited, Renaissance Cards, McGraw-Hill, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, etc.

Check out his cartoons at BetterCartoon.com

Photo Resources - SnapVillage, PictureNation and PhotoShelter

I haven't posted on low cost online photography sources for awhile.  One of the newer ones is SnapVillage, a microstock photography company owned by privately held Corbis.  They allow the "amateur" photographer to upload images, select their selling price from $1 - $50 and go to town.  The site allows you to search by price, recency, snappyness and relevance.  Here's a fact sheet on the site.

Another photo resource that I've come across is PhotoShelter.  They also offer a marketplace, although their pricing is significantly higher than SnapVillage.  On a less costly note you can buy web quality photos at UK-based PictureNation on a subscription or per image basis.

I'll be adding SnapVillage to version 8 of my resource listing for presenters.  If you have other photography or presentation related resources that you feel should be part of this resource listing send them to me.

Note: this is one of my photographs taken at the Bean in Chicago last summer.

Presentation Marketplace - pptExchange

I recently received an e-mail letting me know about the launch of PPTExchange, a new digital asset marketplace for publishing, buying and selling PowerPoint Presentations.  PPTExchange, currently in Beta, was described in their e-mail in the following manner:

"pptExchange is a web-based consumer-to-consumer marketplace, focused on allowing its users to publish, trade and sell content in PowerPoint presentation format.

pptExchange.com aims to become the interactive hub of PowerPoint presentations, where users can easily make their presentations available to others; enable PowerPoint authors to be compensated for their work if they desire; to build the community platform with more value-add and useful services to their members.

The site welcomes anyone who wants to publish/share their PowerPoint content.

• Vendors who want to display their product presentations
• Students who want to share their school presentations
• Design Artists who want to exhibit their creations
• Consultants who would like to showcase their knowledge
• Church members who want to share their sermons or songs
• Educators who want to place their teaching materials online

Any subject (within reason) is welcome! Anyone with a sense of humor!

You can just save it there, you can share it, you can also sell it.. It is the publisher's call.

Here's the press release about the launch of the site and a promotional video explaining the concept.

I've registered at the site, although haven't been able to get in yet.  Once I do, I'll report on how it functions and how it will be of benefit for presenters.