Introducing Broadcast Slide Show
In today’s world, you often need to communicate with people in different locations who can’t get together in the same room. When you’re presenting, you want everyone to see your slide show at the same time -- whether they’re sitting next to you or joining on the phone from 10,000 miles away.
PowerPoint 2010 makes it easy to present on the fly to anyone, anywhere. Just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their browser. You’ll never again need to email bulky attachments or make an announcement every time you change slides.
Watch this video to see how it works:
The workflow is simple: just open any presentation in PowerPoint, click Broadcast Slide Show, and connect to the PowerPoint Broadcast Service. You’ll receive a unique link that you can email or IM to remote attendees. Then, start the slide show and present the same way you do for every presentation you give with PowerPoint.
Attendees listening on the phone or a conference call need to click only once to open your link in their Web browser and watch your broadcast. Their view will update automatically to show your current slide and play animations as you show them. This view has the same cross-platform, cross-browser support as the Office Web Apps.
With Whom Can I Share?
All PowerPoint 2010 users can access the PowerPoint Broadcast Service using a Windows Live ID. When you start a broadcast, it will provide a public link that you can send to anyone on the Internet you invite.
Organizations will also have the flexibility to host their own broadcast services and set permissions for who can create and view broadcasts.
-Nathan Penner
October 8, 2009
