Netbooks can help your presentations
One of the big advantages of netbooks: their portability. That makes these tiny computers great for presentations. So if you want to put your presentation on a netbook, project the screen onto a screen, and off you go.
Nick Simons, a program manager at Microsoft, recently blogged about using this new technology to do presentations of Microsoft Office’s new service: Office Web Apps. Sometime soon, Office will launch this new service where people can upload Office documents and access those documents from any computer.
His blog post describes what you can do with a netbook and a presentation:
The purpose of our visit was to launch a field trial where about 30 students will be using the web apps for several weeks and then telling us what they think. The opportunity to engage face-to-face with these students is enormously valuable both as a gauge of where we are and as a source of feedback for where we should be going. I’ll post periodically about how the trial is progressing but today I want to talk about the presentation.
As I said, I showed up at UW with only a netbook without Office installed. That means no PowerPoint. I hooked the netbook up to the projector and launched IE8. I navigated to the SharePoint server that we are using for the trial and launched my presentation. I could have used Windows Live but I wanted to use the same environment that the students will be using. In only a few seconds the first slide was up on the wall in full-screen mode in PowerPoint Web App.
Two things you can take from this:
1. The ability to communicate your ideas are getting easier and cheaper. Use them.
2. If you are going to do this with a netbook, make sure your netbook can be attached to the projector you wish to use. There are some netbooks that have trouble connecting with projectors. So research the netbook you are interested in.
i would always prefer to use netbooks when i am on the move
because they are so very convenient to carry around ;.`