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Using
Microsoft Agent for Presentations with Auto-Narration...
Important
Links:
Ok, so what exactly
is Microsoft Agent? It's easiest to explain it this way. You
know how in Microsoft Office, you have the little characters
pop up in Help? Like the professor? Or the paper clip? Yeah,
that's using Microsoft Agent.
But here's
the cool thing - you can program those little guys to narrate
PowerPoint presentations and/or to cause interactions during
live presentations!
Let me
put it in an example here. Say you are doing a really important
sales presentation to a big hoo-ha and her team somewhere.
You know a little bit about the lady you are presenting
to and her team (because you, my friend, were smart enough
to do your homework, right?)
So imagine
this....
Your presentation
screen pops ups.
The Einstein
looking professor ambles onto the slide and says "Hello,
<put the name of big shot lady hoo-ha here> How are your
kids <put the name of big shot lady hoo-ha's little tykes
here> today? The weather here in <name of town you are presenting
in> is extremely pleasant dontcha think?"
And he
is speaking all this and walking around the screen making
gestures and such. Now how cool is that for a presentation?
You have
immediately grabbed their attention. Made the whole thing
personal and perhaps you will make the sale - not for the
technology (of course - which by the way is FREE from Microsoft)
but because you cared enough to do you research, incorporate
interactivity and feedback and you did it innovatively,
creatively, and you did it right.
My advice
is this: I started using Agent years ago. It was awesome
then and is awesome now. Check out the links above and READ
EVERYTHING. Go and try it. You just might be amazed. Certainly
your big shot sale prospect will be!
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