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Using Microsoft PowerPoint in your online meeting

December 1, 2005
By:  Bob Whitehead

In order to ensure your web meeting goes over smoothly, it's important to deliver information in a concise, yet informative manner. For such situations in the conference room, it's quite common to turn to Microsoft PowerPoint to deliver a well-organized presentation. Now there are tools that allow you to integrate a PowerPoint presentation in your web conference, too.

The ability to demonstrate charts, graphs, and other key data is a hallmark of PowerPoint's usefulness. It's extremely beneficial to be able to have all your information organized in a slideshow format that can be slowed down to suit the needs of your audience. Additionally, uploading PowerPoint to an online presentation tool allows you to present information consistent with data you may have already presented in person.

The combination of PowerPoint with a web conferencing interface is an extremely helpful addition to your meeting. The ability to conference allows you to be able to field questions about the material, which further informs your audience. Also, PowerPoint slides often don't tell the whole story -- they provide summary or supplemental information. With the web meetings' conference calling, text chat or VoIP voice conferencing features, you can provide the infill.

There are a few different presentation tools available to you that allow you to integrate a PowerPoint presentation -- converted to Flash for the highest quality -- into your web meeting. Examine the pricing levels and features of two popular choices, one from InstantPresenter.com and one from PresenterNet.com.

Adding PowerPoint to your web conference ensures everyone receives the same information in an easy, attractive way. It's allows you to work with a familiar application across a variety of meeting settings.

About the Author
Bob Whitehead is a successful freelance writer and contributor to Web-Conferencing-Zone.com.  Your definitive guide to web conferencing services, online collaboration software and web meetings for business.

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