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Unit 6: Cloud Computing for the Corporation

It’s also a good idea if you want to give a presentation on the road but don’t want to haul your Notes
notebook with you, or even if you just want a backup while you’re traveling. What you can’t do,
of course, is edit the presentations you upload; these services are for sharing, not for collaboration.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
17. The …………………. collaboration with external parties took the form of the postal service,
the fax, couriers, etc.

18. Presentation Engine is an advanced presentation program with an eye toward
………………… graphics and transition effects.
19. The presentations you create with PreZentit are saved in ………………. format.

20. SlideRocket offers pre-designed ………………. and ………………. themes.

6.10 Presenting on the Road

Some of the applications include additional features that add functionality to remote presentations.

Example: Zoho Show includes integration with Zoho Chat, which lets you have
real-time text-based interaction with interested participants. It’s like adding a chat room to your
presentation; participants ask you questions and you respond, in real time, during the course of
the presentation.

Then you have web-based applications such as Cisco’s WebEx (www.webex.com) and Microsoft
Office Live Meeting (office.microsoft.com/en-us/livemeeting/). These are hosted applications
that let you stage live meetings and presentations—called web conferences—over the internet.
All group members log onto a designated website and then view the presenter’s presentation or
participate in real-time audio and video discussions. Granted, a web conference of this sort may
be expensive overkill, but it’s a very effective way to get the job done—especially if you want
live feedback on what you’re presenting.
Even better, many Web-based presentation programs let you give your presentation without
even being there. That is right; you can give a remote presentation—at multiple locations at the
same time—by having all participants login to the same Web-based spreadsheet. Make sure that
they have read-only access, dial everyone into a conference call (so that you can provide the
audio walk-through), and then go into presentation mode. All attendees at all locations will see
the same presentation, and you do not even have to buy a plane ticket.

6.11 Accessing Documents on the Road

With the prevalence of cloud storage and mobile devices lots of people are interested in the
most efficient ways to share their work. There is no one right answer to it but some of the
options available are explained below:
The digital hub: If you’ve used a Mac for a while you may recall Apple’s “digital hub” strategy.
The idea is that the Mac operated in an octopudinal way, where you’d tether your various
devices to it and manage all your stuff with your computer—no cloud necessary as everything
you needed was on your computer.

There’s no crime in continuing to manage your stuff this way. Just copy all the files you could
possibly need to your Mac. Should you wish to put some of those files on your iPad, attach the

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