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Alternative tool for creating & maintaining PowerPoint training decks?
Subject:Alternative tool for creating & maintaining PowerPoint training decks? From:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:24:46 -0700
Hi Robert,
The Toastmasters magazine this month mentions a product called
Slidesource.com for collaboration on, and storage and retrieval of,
PowerPoint slides.
The use case pretty much like what you're looking for: central catalog,
version control at the slide and presentation level, offline editing....
-Tony
On Thursday, March 5, 2015, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','robert -at- lauriston -dot- com');>> wrote:
> I wonder if Slide Executive might be moribund. I've gotten no response
> to a support request and the last post on their blog is from 2012.
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > There's also Slide Executive. That seems more like what I had in mind.
> > If Articulate has content management I couldn't figure it out.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
> >> So far, Articulate, SlideManager, and Author-it are the only products
> >> I've found that may do what I'm looking for.
> >>
> >> Author-it doesn't want my business because my company's too small.
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