The new Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is now available for download.Office Professional 2010 combines all you need to create, edit and share documents from virtually anywhere. You get top-of-the-line tools to run your business and any project efficiently.

Office Professional 2010 combines all you need to create, edit and share documents from virtually anywhere. You get top-of-the-line tools to run your business and any project efficiently.

The downloads are available here: http://us20.office2010beta.microsoft.com/default.aspx?culture=en-US

We are glad to announce that we have released the first beta version of our new university search feature. We are still in the process of indexing large amounts of presentations from around the university world, why many of the universities may currently show a small number of presentations.

The idea here is that presentations posted on university websites will often contain high quality content. This is not to be confused with good quality presentations, but none the less, its actual content should be reliable and interesting. We are today indexing presentations from well over 500 universities world-wide in eleven countries. This will further increase during the spring of 2010 to include about 40 countries and 4000 universities.

There are currently two ways of using this new feature; you can either browse the actual university by country and university, or you could do a simple search and add site:harvard.edu for example to find presentations coming from Harvard University.

If anyone feels like promoting their country or their university then please let us know.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 comes with new rich media tools. Follow this quick tutorial and see how to easily integrate images and video in your PowerPoint presentation. Also, learn how to share PowerPoint presentations with remote abilities.

While Twitting this morning I found a cool eBook from Olivia Mitchell, and best of all, it's free. The book talks about how to present with Twitter, making it an integrated part of your presentation.

Here's an excerp from here eBook:

And so started the shift of power from speaker to audience. Now, just about every week a new story of a presenter getting roasted on Twitter or other backchannel surfaces. The fact that this might happen to you could be scary. Presenting at conferences is hard enough without the added complication of Twitter.

In this eBook, I'll show you how you can survive presenting with Twitter. Audience revolts on Twitter and other backchannels get the attention in the Twittersphere and blogosphere, but if you upgrade your presentations to meet the deamnd of the Twitter era, it won't happen to you.

Now, go download this free eBook and have a great weekend.

Please visit her page where she writes about the eBook: http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/twitter/present-twitter-backchannel-ebook/

The eBook can downloaded from: http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/How-to-present-with-Twitter1.pdf

Just came across a pretty cool page at Microsoft Office online. It contains well over twenty FREE courses regarding PowerPoint 2007.

Just follow this link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102184981033.aspx and sit back for hours of FREE powerPoint training.

Here is another usefull link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/CH100740871033.aspx?IO_CL=5266 with rouglhy 70 PowerPoint 2007 demos.

The Crabby Office Lady has written a nice article that demystifies various PowerPoint terms.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint is one flexible, useful program. And it's fun to use, too. But does one mention of a slide master or a design template have you fleeing the room? Learn some of the basic terms for PowerPoint and don't be scared off again.

These are the terms she covers:

• Slide
• Layout
• Placeholders
• Design template
• Theme
• Slide master
• Photo album
• Embedded and linked files
• Transitions
• Action buttons

 Here's how to get to the article: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102341441033.aspx