Category: Personal

Online Seminar - Convert PPT to Webcast (by me)

08/20/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Resource/Misc, Personal

The funny thing is I received this email, probably like many of you. What caught my attention is that I am the instructor for the seminar, but it is not on my calendar... Oh, this is a "re-run" of a training I did awhile ago!

I won't be at this one in person, but it is good. Details here.

- Troy @ TLC

A Day With Photoshop Guru Bert Monroy

08/14/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal

A few weeks ago back Kelby Training had a Photoshop CS5 seminar in San Diego. It was a good day and the instructor was Photoshop guru Bert Monroy - who was kind enough to let us take a photo together.

- Troy @ TLC

The Script Binder Is Very Important

07/23/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Resource/Misc, Personal

Here is my workspace (or part of it). Question: what is the most important item here?

For large, multi-screen (multi-computer) shows that have lots of cues (slide animations/advances, video rolls, etc.) the script binder reigns supreme. It has the exact script the presnter has on teleprompt. I have added my cue marks and notes throughout. During the show I literally read along as the presenter presents and I do nothing unless it is noted in this binder (no improvisation, everything is rehearsed and set to occur at specific words).

How important? At the end of the day I shutdown computers, lock them away, but the script binder goes with me and never leaves my control (seriously).

- Troy @ TLC

Lots and Lots of Videos In Presentations This Week

07/21/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal

Coordinating presentations for a medical conference this week. In addition to the typical slides for 100+ doctors, the number of video clips is amazing. Here is an example:


1 presentation, 85 slides and 102 movie clips.

- Troy @ TLC

ThePowerPointBlog Cards

07/19/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal, Portfolio

As a company we do virtually nothing in the way of advertising, and that is fine with me. But I did create some promo cards, actually 2-sided business cards a while back that I occassionally hand out or have available at different speaking or training programs I am doing. Just something fun, visually cool and small.

- Troy @ TLC

Sprint 4G Connection

07/17/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal

I am working in Chicago this week and Chicago is the first Sprint 4G city I have been in since getting my new phone (HTC EVO). My typical 1-2MB connection jumped to over 5MB!


Definitely not as quick as my office (50MB connection), but faster than the hotel connection.

- Troy @ TLC

A stack-O-Computers For The Show

07/11/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal

Here was my morning activity for a recent show. Bring out the multiple show computers (all running PPT 2010), connect, test output and work. Powerful laptops are big, but I wouldn't try carrying a stack of desktop computers!

- Troy @ TLC

Celebrating 4th of July!

07/04/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal

- Troy @ TLC

Warning - Bad/Dangerous Presentation Ahead

06/04/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal

Sometimes presentations are just put together so poorly they should have a warning sign at the beginning...

- Troy @ TLC

Email Through Cell Phone Can Be Bad

05/28/10 | by Troy Chollar [mail] | Categories: Personal

Don't get me wrong, I live by my cell phone and definitely do more email than talking. I actually do almost as much texting as talking. But the small keyboard and onscreen touch keyboards combined with intuitive word completion (where the phone guesses at your words) is creating a bad communication experience.

As example - this is a recent email received (not a text message, but email) that was typed on a mobile phone:
"Is there something I'm supposed to so or the presenter?"

Translation (after a phone call to figure out the original message) = "Got your email and just want to confirm there is nothing I need to do at this time while we wait for the presenter to review the presentation proof."

- Troy @ TLC

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I work with PowerPoint on a daily basis and I am very honored to be a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP. ThePowerPointBlog focuses on PowerPoint and multimedia development, all of which is hopefully helpful, fun, and at times entertaining. Enjoy!

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