Once again Microsoft has released some press around the vulnerabilities of their office suite, where bad peeps can execute code from a well formed document and take control of your computer. Are we getting tired of this yet?
So if you insist on using those products, please update the latest patches, or you could just delete the installation and that will solve the problem now and into the future.
Since losing my harddrive last week in my MacBook Pro, I have been living off the net without any software installed other than a web browser, while it was initially inconvenient, after 5 days I’m starting to enjoy it. Give it a try, there are a lot of alternatives out there in the cloud, you might be surprised.
Here it is, Empressr Lesson Series #1. Media: Uploads, Importing, and Creation!
The team here at Empressr is always working to make sure your experience with the Empressr platform is the BEST possible. Here is the first of a series of story boards designed to help you use some of our most exciting key features. Enjoy!
Empressr has been privileged to have users from most every neck of the woods imaginable. The INSANE variety of stories posted every day never ceases to amaze us and reinvigorate our excitement for the application.
Well, beyond business implications, among the largest constituents of all presentation tools are students and teachers. Where once teachers were more apt to use classic educational methods, these days it seems more and more base their entire course plan around presentations they have made.
In fact, many are taking the initiative, getting their students engaged with new programs as they come out. They are not only using technology to facilitate education but positioning their students to be ahead of the curve.
A perfect example popped up in Empressr today. Teacher/Empressr user “Iritzel” posted an assignment for his students to review a recent tech article, create a basic Empressr about it, and then use the variety of tools we provide.
In my hast to start the weekend last Friday, I created my Empressr showing the new Adobe Kuler integration on our staging server, which of course is not accessible from the outside. My Bad. So here it is!
Here’s a great post from Executive Travel Magazine’s website about some recession minded tips for achieving collaboration without the cost of transportation.
It list Empressr as the #5 tip due to it’s ease of use, integration of both video, audio, and visual aspects, and of course how, thanks to being browser based it allows all sorts of content to freely and easily accessed by parties anywhere on the globe!
The team here at Empressr LOVE IT when people get excited about the Empressr application!!!
We are always working on making your user experience the BEST possible and making Empressr the best product it can be. Part of that comes from our users feedback; that means you guys!!!
This is a great example from Eldor Germann’s blog Teaching and Technology. Beyond making us blush, we think he did an AWESOME job of summing up some of our great features like our 3D tranistions, direct import from YouTube, and on-slide image reflections.
Eldon also relates a great experience with tech support from @GlobalCitizen and @BryanThatcher which is something we really take pride in.
All in all its a great read and we highly suggest you check out his blog and the article on Empressr!
Last week while we were in Amsterdam at The Next Web, we released an update to Empressr. In the editor there were just a series of minor bug fixes, the big release was enhancements to the Presenters Dashboard.
The biggest change is how we integrate Twitter.
We now highlight questions so that they are easier to identify in the stream, we also have the ability to filter the Tweet stream for only questions if you are doing a Q&A.
When you manually launch a tweet to the Empressr presentation we make that tweet sticky on top of the dashboard so that it is easy to close or reference what tweet is on the screen. Launching a new one will close the existing, select the close button and it remove it from the Empressr presentation.
Particularly if your one of those still using file sharing.
Microsoft announced that the infamous PowerPoint program (Office 2003 and earlier) has been exposed to some serious security issues. In fact, in an alert separate from that of Microsoft, the Denmark based vulnerability research shop Secunia labeled the issue “extremely critical.”
Users who click on malicious files, website links and email attachments trigger malware files on their workstations. So far attempts to use this have been limited yet targeted. Further it appears those with high access levels are at the highest risk.
These types of problems are easily avoidable thanks to browser-based programs!
There are numerous online-presentation tools all of which avoid such issues. Everything being embedded on a web page means there is no need to click external links, no need to open attached files, and no need to check with IT every time you wish to launch a presentation someone sends to you.
In the meantime Microsoft plans to “monitor the situation.”
Last week at Web 2.0 Expo #w2e Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd and Oliver Marks @olivermarks used Empressr as their tool to create and present their story on Enterprise 2.0. This presentation is a warm up to the bigger Enterprise 2.0 event that they are presenting in, taking place in Boston June 22-25th. The two took advantage of some of the cool new features, namely the Twitter FrontChannel to spearhead the Q & A session.
Stowe loved it because it gave him a chance to be able to choose the Tweet that was shown on the screen, users loved it because they got a chance to participate in the presentation. Stowe is going to be using Empressr around the world speaking during the next few months, I’ll keep you posted.
The Empressr
The Dashboard
Some of the features are:
A timer so you can gauge the length or your presentation.
You can show the hash tag on the presentation so your audience knows what hash to use.
You can autorun the tweets, or select manual, in this mode you would launch each tweet to the screen.
Presenter Notes, you see previous, current and next slides, they are also click-able as an additional navigation element.
Empressr is the first visual storytelling and presentation rich Internet application. Feature-rich, it allows you to create, manage and share—going beyond other applications by enabling you to combine streaming video, animation, audio, still images and text to create the most dynamic content possible. You can easily embed your visual story in your blog or your favorite social network page. Or use Empressr to create state of the art boardroom presentations.
@LadyLeet probably a good idea, computers and bathtubs, although sounds enticing is probably not a good thins, have fun ;-) in reply to LadyLeet2009-05-12
