{"id":12088,"date":"2009-10-11T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapweb20.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-10-11T09:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T08:39:14","slug":"powerpoint-twitter-tools-update-make-some-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/powerpoint-twitter-tools-update-make-some-noise.html","title":{"rendered":"PowerPoint Twitter Tools Update: Make Some Noise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

New versions of the PowerPoint Twitter Tools, built using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius<\/a>, are now available. If you\u2019re using the PowerPoint template with the embedded widgets from this web site, you will automatically get the new versions. To access the new tools, download the PowerPoint templates from the main page<\/a>. More detailed instructions are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New tool: PowerPoint Crowd Meter<\/h3>\n

When you want to take a break from using Twitter for interaction, try the PowerPoint Crowd Meter \u2013 monitors and displays the noise of the crowd in the room, and shows the maximum volume over the last ten seconds \u2013 use it for crowd voting!<\/p>\n

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New Features<\/h3>\n

\u201cQuiet\u201d Voting.<\/strong> A new option avoids all your followers having to see your votes. Simply use the format \u201c@tweetbyvote 1 myvote<\/em>\u201d, where myvote<\/em> is the ID you\u2019re using for the vote. Try using \u201cxcelsiustweet\u201d if you want to do testing.<\/p>\n

More Voting Options.<\/strong> There\u2019s now a choice between seeing the voting results as either percentages or vote totals, with the numbers displayed on top of the bars, and you can click through to a Twitter web page to see the actual votes cast.<\/p>\n

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Automatic Refresh.<\/strong> The feedback slide and the voting slides now refresh automatically every 30 seconds. Beware of keeping them open for too long, or you may run into issues with Twitter Rate Limiting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Easy Access to Instructions and Embedding.<\/strong> The widgets now all include information and embed icons that give you access to the instructions page on this site, and the HTML needed to embed the widget in web pages:<\/p>\n

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Predefined Values.<\/strong> For advanced users, the widgets now include support for Flash variables for predefining certain options, such as the search text that appears in the lower left, the number of votes to be counted, etc. Examine the code available through the embed icon, or see the instructions page for more details.<\/p>\n

Please keep your feedback and feature requests coming! <\/strong>http:\/\/twitter.com\/sapweb20<\/strong><\/a> or <\/strong>timo.elliott@sap.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PowerPoint Twitter Tools have been updated, with new features and an additional interactive tool, the PowerPoint Crowd Meter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[213,831,1092,1136,1151],"class_list":["post-12088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web20_by_sap","tag-businessobjects","tag-powerpoint","tag-twitter","tag-web-2-0","tag-xcelsius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image163-1.jpg?fit=708%2C457&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-38Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}