Photos and Memories

Rick Altman on Death by PowerPoint: “Most people spend less than one hour learning the software. No wonder it is the object of so much derision!”

Nancy Duarte speaks to a capacity crowd on the virtues of storytelling and the value of channeling your inner child.

Carmen Taran holds court in the eLearning track.

Comfort is key at PowerPoint Live...

Julie Terberg on recycling animation techniques: “The key to your success is your preparation.”

Geetesh Bajaj chose visuals carefully for his seminar entitled “Surviving Version Hell.”

Host Rick Altman used his opening remarks as an opportunity to announce his candidacy for President of the United States...

Continuing the political subtheme, guest speaker John Dean of Watergate fame spoke on message crafting for the masses.

Jim Endicott, presiding over a workshop for budding entrepreneurs.

Danette Beierle being tortured by the conference schedule: too many good sessions to attend...

Presidential candidate Rick Altman: “After watching the Ross Perot footage yesterday, I got inspired and created my own infomercial .”

Carmen Taran debuted at the 2008 conference with a new book hot off the press, “Better Beginnings.”

Three of the gang from Microsoft (left to right), Bobby Kolba, Richard Bretschneider, and Shawn Villaron. The man in charge of PowerPoint’s direction, Ric has attended all six conferences in PowerPoint Live’s short history.

Photo: Geetesh Bajaj

Paul Clothier, international expert in instructional design.

Echo Swinford, six-time conference speaker, Microsoft MVP, and all-around PPT wizard.

Julie Terberg, master designer and illustrator.

Lesa King: “Who says working with photos has to be hard?”

Bob Mathews, tackling the ticklish world of symbols and numbers.

Geetesh Bajaj comes all the way from India to help, to teach, and to network.

Scott Schwertly brought his Gen X personality to the conference to discuss how best to communicate with young professionals.

Bov Van Duuren brings his networking expertise to the conference all the way from Holland.

Photo: Denise Then

Conference rock star Nancy Duarte offers up an expression a minute...

The team of Microsoft MVPs—heroes and white knights to legions of users.

“The Help Center crew at the conference was incredibly helpful, knowledgeable and approachable, and didn't flinch when I pulled out my list of top 25 Powerpoint problems.”—Rebecca MacLachlan (left)

Tuesday’s outing with master photographer Rikk Flohr is an annual highlight.

Shelly Colletti steadies herself for action, just like the pros do.

My lens is bigger than your lens, says Sharon to Brian, as he looks on enviously...

Jeannie Shea chats with Jeff Crapo from PointeCast about the finer points of converting from PowerPoint to Flash.

Jack Corrao of Newton Peripherals tells a packed lunchtime crowd about the bluetooth-enabled, oh-so-compact MoGo mouse and remote.

Lots of goodies for Donna Jo Roy to feast on at the Camtasia exhibit.

John Blair of SMK-Link shows off an armada of wireless remotes for every level of presenter.

John Quincy of PresentationXpert signs up a new subscriber.

And the question is...“Can you name four ways to get eight people to stare at a screen...?”

Question: Why might a slide background be navy blue by default?

Answer: Because.

Wayne Michael’s charades phrase is “Boomerangs are for idiots,” while his teammates try to guess. We think that is a backhand toss he is executing.

During PowerPoint Karaoke, Jean Sanford had to speak about eight slides that she had never seen before.

Meanwhile, Lindsey Strobel is trying to get her teammates to say “pie chart,” but her clues to them cannot include the words data, graph, or easy as.

What would cause Dannette to blush? Cindy’s answer in the Match Game part of the contest: I wanted to start my keynote address off with a bang, but maybe I went a little overboard when after being introduced, I <blanked> the host.

The judges confer on an answer. Echo to Steve: “Wait, did that team buy us a drink or not?”

The conference took over a Mexican restaurant on the beach Tuesday night for a private margarita party and concert. Life was never the same for some of them after that...

Conference cruise director Sherri Capezzuto enjoying the fruits of her labors.

Mike Wallace as concert groupie.

The lead singer for this Journey tribute band doesn’t exactly look like Steve Perry, but he sure can sing like him.

      Photo: Denise Then