PowerPoint® Twitter ® Tools

From SAP BusinessObjects

timo.elliott@sap.com http://twitter.com/sapweb20 December 2009 Slides v1.5 BETA
 Introduction

Welcome!
This presentation explains the PROTOTYPE 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, please go to the
SAPweb20.com web site:
http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions/
Timo Elliott
Senior Director, Strategic These tools are prototypes. Please go to the http://sapweb20.com web site for
Marketing more information on using the tools
SAP BusinessObjects
Paris, France Contents
+33607864903  PowerPoint Feedback Slides
 PowerPoint Twitter AutoTweet
timo.elliott@sap.com
http://sapweb20.com
 PowerPoint Twitter Voting
twitter.com/sapweb20  PowerPoint Twitter Ticker Bar
 PowerPoint Twitter Update Bar
telliott@timoelliott.com  PowerPoint Twitter Mood Meter
http://timoelliott.com  PowerPoint Crowd Meter
twitter.com/timoelliott
 PowerPoint Zoom Text

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 Obligatory Legal Disclaimer

IN NO EVENT WILL SAP OR TIMO ELLIOTT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL

OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF
USE OR LOST BUSINESS, REVENUE, OR GOODWILL) ARISING IN
CONNECTION WITH THESE PROTOTYPES AND/OR THE USE THEREOF,
UNDER ANY THEORY OF TORT, CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY OR
NEGLIGENCE, EVEN IF SAP OR TIMO ELLIOTT HAS BEEN ADVISED, KNEW OR
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO
EVENT SHALL ANY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE ASSESSED UPON SAP OR TIMO
ELLIOTT FOR ANY REASON.

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 PowerPoint Twitter Feedback Slide
Use Presentation Mode to view, Click this header to give mouse control back to
PowerPoint, change slide, etc. Check the “alternate format” to see more tweets!

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 Moderation Options

I know what you’re thinking!

“I’d love to present with the Twitter tools, but I’m worried that people might Tweet
something inappropriate”
No problem — sign up for a free account at TidyTweet, and you can easily filter out
everything that might be a problem, automatically or manually. Then simply enter
the custom feed URL in the options tab of the feedback slide.
You can also use this method for internal twitter-like services that offer an ATOM feed
— you can choose whether to append the keyword parameter to the URL

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 PowerPoint Auto Tweet

You can “auto tweet” from presentations using the AutoTweet plugin, available
here (Office 2007) or here (Office 2004)
Any text between the tags [twitter] and [/twitter] in your notes pages will automatically
be tweeted as your give your presentation.

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 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” to
see some results on the next slides…

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 PowerPoint Twitter Voting
Choice of chart types: pie + 2 to 6 choices

1. Option 1

2. Option 2

3. Option 3

http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions/
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 PowerPoint Twitter Voting
Labels

You can use these below with the voting tool on the previous page — aligned with 1 to 6 option
choices

1. Option 1 1. Option 1
1. Option 1
1. Option 1
2. Option 2
1. Option 1 2. Option 2
2. Option 2
3. Option 3
2. Option 2 3. Option 3
4. Option 4
3. Option 3
2. Option 2 4. Option 4
5. Option 5
3. Option 3
4. Option 4
5. Option 5 6. Option 6

http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions/
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 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

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 PowerPoint Twitter Update Bar

Note: This bar uses “basic authentication.” Because of Twitter/ Flash security
restrictions, the file “powerpoint_twitter_update_status.swf” must be in the same
directory as this slide deck for the bar to work.

Picture of the bar

Real bar below (put in presentation mode to view)

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 PowerPoint Twitter Mood Meter

This tool is a variation on the twitter voting. The audience can tweet either:
 @votebytweet warmer myuniqueid
 @votebytweet colder myuniqueid

And the indicator in the bar will move to the right (warmer) or to the left (colder). The
bar shows the average of the last n tweets (10 by default)

Usage example: at the start of a presentation, you ask the audience how they feel
about a particular topic (e.g. “do you think SAP is an innovative company?”. Then the
audience can tweet during the presentation if they agree/disagree, and the bar shows
the current “mood”
As with the ticker bar, this should be installed in the powerpoint slide master if you
want to use it across slides. See
http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions for more details

Real bar below (put in presentation mode to view)

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 PowerPoint Crowd Meter
Make some noise!

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 PowerPoint Zoom Text Method 1
Click the button to Add Your Own Text

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 PowerPoint Zoom Text Method 2
Put in presentation mode to view effect
Click on a word to “zoom” in on it. To modify the text shown, go to edit mode, right click on the flash movie below, choose
“parameters”, find the “movie” parameter, and change the words after “mywords=“. Use a semi-colon to separate phrases.

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