This document provides instructions for using various Twitter tools within PowerPoint presentations, including: 1) A PowerPoint Feedback Slide that allows audience members to provide live feedback via Twitter. 2) A PowerPoint Twitter Ticker Bar that displays recent tweets including a search term in a bar at the bottom of presentation slides. 3) Additional Twitter tools like a Twitter Voting tool to poll audiences, a Twitter Mood Meter, and a Crowd Meter to gauge audience engagement. The tools are designed to be interactive and help make presentations a more engaging "web 2.0 experience." Instructions for setting up and using each tool are provided.

1. I Didn’t Know You
Could Do That With
Powerpoint
Jim Dornberg
Monroe County ISD
dornberg@misd.k12.mi.us

2. Handouts and links for this
presentation may be found at
http://tinyurl.com/mcisdppt

3. Agenda
Drawing Photo
Clip Art
Tools Album
Action Sound & Sharing
Buttons Music Online

4. Does anyone use

5. The Drawing Toolbar

7. Editing Clip Art
• Group and Ungroup
• Crop
• Recolor
• Flip
• Rotate

8. What kind of Clip Art
are you looking for?
Click the drop down arrow and
select the appropriate checkboxes
Find more clip art on the
Microsoft website

9. “Ungroup” Clip Art

10. Before After

11. Insert picture
Color
More contrast
Less contrast
More brightness
Less brightness
Crop
Rotate left
Line style
Compress pictures
Recolor picture
Format picture
Set transparent color
Reset picture
Microsoft Office Picture Toolbar
Some tools work only with photos, some only with clip art, some with both

12. If the Picture toolbar is not visible, you need to turn
it on from the View menu…
Click on:
View> Toolbars> Picture

13. Set Transparent Color
Whatever color you click on will become “invisible”

14. Recolor Clip Art

15. Working With Sound
Sound clips from the
Clip Art Gallery:
Sound effects, MIDI, wav
Ripped or downloaded
music files in a wide
variety of formats
including:
mp3, wav, MIDI,

16. To get your music to play during several slides:
1. Click on the speaker icon for the music
you inserted
2. Go to Custom Animation
(Slide Show > Custom Animation or on the Task Pane)
3. Click on the drop down arrow and select Effect Options…
4. Specify when
you want the
music to stop
playing
5. Click OK

17. Where Are the Action Buttons?
Top of screen: Menu Bar
Bottom of screen: AutoShapes

18. Select an Action Button
Drag the “crosshairs” to
draw the Action Button
Custom Home Help Info Back Forward
First Last Return Document Sound Movie

19. Select the “action” you want to occur on either a
mouse click or a mouse over
You can even type on
Action Buttons
Or add a picture

20. Right-click on an Action Button and select “Format AutoShape” to
format the colors, size, text box…

21. One possibility for
using Action Buttons:
a “Create Your Own
Adventure Story”
Adapted from “Stories that grow on trees” by Patti Emley, Louisburg, Kansas

22. Or create a game

23. Share Your PPT With the World

24. Create a Photo Album
Click on Insert > Picture > New Photo Album

25. PowerPoint Twitter Tools ® ®
From SAP BusinessObjects
timo.elliott@sap.com http://twitter.com/sapweb20 October 11 2009 Slides v1.0 BETA

26. Introduction
Welcome!
This presentation explains the BETA PowerPoint Twitter Tools I
designed using the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding product,
Xcelsius, that help make presentations a more interactive, web 2.0
experience.
For more information, detailed instructions and troubleshooting tips,
Timo Elliott please go to the SAPweb20.com web site:
Senior Director, Strategic
Marketing http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions/
SAP BusinessObjects
Paris, France These tools are prototypes. Please go to the http://sapweb20.com
+33607864903
web site for more information on using the tools
timo.elliott@sap.com
http://sapweb20.com Contents
twitter.com/sapweb20
 PowerPoint Feedback Slide
telliott@timoelliott.com  PowerPoint Twitter Ticker Bar
http://timoelliott.com  PowerPoint Twitter Update Bar
twitter.com/timoelliott
 PowerPoint Twitter Voting
 PowerPoint Twitter Mood Meter
 PowerPoint Crowd Meter
© SAP 2009 / Page 26

27. PowerPoint Twitter Ticker Bar
Instructions
 Put the slide into presentation mode to see the ticker bar at the bottom of the screen. If the
bar does not appear, see troubleshooting section of online instructions)
 Use the left-hand button to turn the bar on or off. Type in the text you want to search for (e.g.
“timoelliott”) and press Enter.
 Click outside the bar area in order to give control back to PowerPoint/move to next slide, etc.
The Twitter Bar will appear here in Presentation Mode
(you may have to wait a few seconds for it to load)
To maintain status across slides, you must put the ticker bar in your slide master,
as I have done here. See http://sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions
© SAP 2009 / Page 27

28. PowerPoint Twitter Voting
Instructions
To vote, make the first character of your tweet an option number, and include a
unique voting string somewhere in the text, e.g.
“1 is the option I choose! myvote” OR
“@votebytweet 1 myvote” (your followers won’t see the votes by default)
Here’s what the chart looks like with data — try putting in the string “xcelsiustweet”
and extending the days option to see some results on the next slides…
© SAP 2009 / Page 28

29. What are you doing for Thanksgiving dinner?
Tweet: 1 tdaytravel if staying at home
Tweet: 2 tdaytravel if going someplace else
1. Staying at home
2. Going someplace
else
http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions/
© SAP 2009 / Page 29

30. PowerPoint Crowd Meter
Make some noise!
© SAP 2009 / Page 30