Emaze is a new online technology which allows you to create presentations. It is simple to use and it will surely enhance the looks of your presentation dramatically. This is how the site works: Sign Up Choose a template Add a ready-made slide Type your content, add images and videos You're ready Share it with the world Before getting into details, let me share what I feel is the real benefit of using Emaze. It allows you to make visually good looking presentations quickly. You choose a template and then you add ready-made slides. You have a slide to add quote, one with a timeline, one with a chart, one with a SmartArt kind of image, one with a table and so on. Some templates of Emaze are like MS PowerPoint and some are like Prezi. When you work on Emaze, your deck sits in the cloud. You can access it from anywhere and on any device. Watch this short 2 minute video for a crux of what the site does: Templates There are 32 templates as of now. The site tries to ...

Presentain is a great tool for presenters. Check out this 2 minute video and then the interview with Mark Thomas. Presentain Overview from Presentain on Vimeo . Vivek: What is Presentain? How does it work? Mark: Presentain is a great interactive presentation tool that helps speakers engage their audiences more effectively.  Here’s how it works: Speaker goes to Presentain.com to sign up and upload his presentation so it sits in the cloud and is always available to him where he presents.  Then he downloads an iOS or Android app that serves as his smart remote to control the slides during presentation and to also control different interactivity components: like receiving questions from the audience, run real time polls, pull up his profile on the big screen and push it to audience devices so everybody can easily follow the speaker. When the speaker is done presenting the audience can receive the presentation to their emails. And not just static presentation slide...

In my last post I talked about head room and lead room. In this post, let us talk about a very interesting rule. The Rule of Thirds This tip will help you take photographs. To understand this rule, imagine that the photograph is divided into 9 equal parts. This rule states that the 4 intersection points are the 'power points'. The subject when placed around these areas becomes 'powerful'. While taking this photograph, if the cameraman had placed the soldier in the middle of the photo, the photo would not look so good. When you are taking this photo, place the soldier along the Line A or Line B. Look at another image. See how the animal has been placed on one of the 4 power points. Imagine you are taking the photo of the horizon. Where will you place the horizon? Along the bottom dotted line (going from left to right). Look at these two photos taken from unsplash.com : Did you see the rule of thirds being followed? The next t...