MightyMeeting is First-to-Market on HP TouchPad

As an engineer I have always admired all things HP: calculators, oscilloscopes, laptops, servers, etc. They are powerful and rugged things that can take a beating and get the job done. Musicians have their Stradivarius and Steinway. Photographers have their Leicas and Zeiss. We, engineers, have our HP gadgets and gear.

It is with great excitement, therefore, that I announce today availability of our award winning mobile web conferencing application for the TouchPad, a great new tablet from HP. Without further ado, here is a demo video:

True to its nature, HP produced a good solid piece of hardware. It is in software, however, that the tablet shines. We had a lot of fun developing for it, but I am sure you will have even more fun using it.

When using MightyMeeting on HP TouchPad, make sure to check out the following:

  • Synergy. You can now email meeting invitations to your contacts in Facebook, Yahoo!, MS Exchange, LinkedIn, etc.
  • Multi-tasking. When you switch to another app while hosting a meeting, your meeting remains active. Switching back is a snap.
  • Unified messaging. While in a meeting, you can maintain active chat sessions with other folks over Skype, Google Talk, etc.

Last but not least, MightyMeeting integrated audio conferencing is making its debut on the TouchPad. You can now host an audio conference as part of the meeting. There are no dial-in numbers or passcodes to remember. You only need to remember one number – yours.

After you join a meeting, dial your number, and the app will call you and join you into the audio conference. You dial it once, and we remember it. From this point on, joining an audio conference is a one-touch operation. It is all about good engineering.

Enjoy!

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Posted by Dmitri Tcherevik on July 1, 2011 8:09:23 AM EDT #

25 Sales Experts You Should Follow on Twitter

MightyMeeting users range from CEOs to college professors. And lately, we have seen serious MightyMeeting enthusiasm from sales professionals who need to give sales presentations at a moment's notice.

To keep up with our sales savy users, we make sure to follow top sales professionals on Twitter. These sales experts not only pitch; they share, engage and connect.

We wanted to share our recommendations and also hear your  favorites.  If you think we missed a top sales tweep, leave a comment  or tweet us @MightyMeeting.  You can also follow the list and we will be more than happy to add you.   

 

25 sales experts you should follow ( in no particular order) 

Make sure to tell us your favorite sales tweeters! Want to be added to list just tweet MightyMeeting and we will add you!

 

 

 

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Posted by Dmitri Tcherevik on May 11, 2011 11:47:00 PM EDT #

Presentation design. Serious business.

While working in the IT business for almost 3 years now I have to admit I’ve seen a lot of presentations. Most of those presentations where, of course, IT related but not all of them. I also attended some presentations about different subjects like project management, social media and business process management. A lot of times I was thinking: “What an awful slide deck.”

 

I’m not saying my own slide decks are perfect, far from it. But I can say that there’s always a clear hierarchy within it. Design is a big deal. It has loads of potential and power, we got to understand that. Ok, of course you don’t have to be a designer but we only have to become more aware of it! 

 

Stop doing that

 

I admit. Not only in the IT business it’s like this. In general people like to put too much on slides. You can say that most people are writers although they don’t really see themselves that way. People are putting so much on a slide or in a whole slide deck that they are actually writing a whole book or making a handout. And we all know that a book and a handout are for reading and slides can be seen as ‘speakers support tools’.

 

 

I keep asking people: “how many times you’ve seen/attended a presentation where you almost fell asleep with or didn’t understand because the slides were full of text?” If you see a whole diagram in front of you, you have to take the time to read it. It’s kind of hard to read when someone is actually talking to you or skips the slide because it isn’t that relevant according to the speaker or he talks way too fast.

 

Before you even open your presentation making software and start working on your deck, you need to ask yourself the following two questions:

  • Am I creating a document or a presentation?
  • Is it more important if they listen or if they read? 

If you want to give a presentation you should not create that document on screen, you should put your story on paper and hand it out after the presentation. Give your audience that extra attention that it needs and give them something to think about, and to read about, when you are done.

 So what can we learn from the above? Actually pretty much. We all know that we don’t have to put too much on slides but we keep doing it. Why? Because we hate white spaces? Because we think information needs to be shared? Stop right there. It’s not about the ‘we’ when we are giving a presentation, it’s about them, the audience.

 What else is there that you should really have to pay attention to?

  • If the content of a slide don’t further your story, cut it out!
  • Always think of your audience first and keep your slides simple and your talk as short as possible.
  • If the message can be designed with fewer elements than there’s no point in using more.
  • Images/photos are a powerful and natural way for humans to communicate, so use them.
  • Think like a designer. Go over your slides again and again and again. Try to give it your best and think about every move you make.
  • Handouts can set you free. A handout can let you accelerate at making your best slide deck ever. 

You may think now: “a handout can set me free?” Free from what? Being boring? Being ordinary? A handout frees your mind, it will improve your slides, and it makes your audience happy!

So what should it look like? It should be preferably 1 page long (up to 3 pages is still ok, but shorter is better, otherwise people won’t bother reading) and it should describe what you have talked about in the presentation. Remember: it must be a story and not just your slides. Of course adding your slides on the handout is ok but just put them in there as a sort of attachment.

 

 

Should I give my handout to my audience before or after the presentation? The advice I always give is to give it after! Why should a listener bother with the presentation if they have the summary in front of them? If you do so also tell your audience that they will receive one after the presentation. This way they don’t have to write stuff down and can focus completely on you and your story.

In short a handout should have the following things:

  • It should keep your storyline as told on stage, don’t introduce new elements.
  • It’s ok to use images but it’s also ok if you don’t.
  • Add some ‘further reading’. You can create a ‘further reading section’ at the end of your handout and name some sources (books, websites).
  • Add your contact details!

  

Arjen van Doezelaar is a Business Consultant from Capgemini. Arjen studied Japanese and as a result of that moved to Japan in 2007, now living in Rotterdam again. Arjen got inspired by following classes in presentation design by former Apple employee and presentation guru Garr Reynolds. Since then his love for design, and presentations in general, grew rapidly.

Arjen loves to awake possibilities in other people. Sharing interests with a positive mindset is what it’s all about. Arjen can be found on Twitter, Linked-in and his own blog called onebigcoffeemachine.com.

 

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Posted by Dmitri Tcherevik on May 2, 2011 10:52:00 AM EDT #