{"id":564,"date":"2011-09-22T07:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-09-29T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T21:39:03","slug":"switching-to-sliderocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/switching-to-sliderocket\/","title":{"rendered":"switching to SlideRocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m an early adopter. \u00a0Tell me there’s some new hotness out there on the web, and I’m there to check it out. \u00a0I might or might not continue to use it, but I’ve always checked it out. \u00a0One of my favorite things about working in high tech is that I get to be an uber-early adopter. \u00a0I get access to projects that we’re working on before they’re in beta, so I get to play around with them and hopefully offer ideas for improvement (or at least find some bugs so that they get fixed before they’re out in the real world).<\/p>\n

VMware has been great about feeding this addiction to early adoption. \u00a0We’ve acquired some great companies lately, and they’re ones with products that I’ve been really excited to start using. \u00a0Earlier this year, we acquired SlideRocket<\/a>. \u00a0Switching away from PowerPoint is hard, especially given how long I spent as a member of that team. \u00a0But my strong desire to use VMware’s products as much as possible means that I took the plunge.<\/p>\n

Switching to SlideRocket<\/a> has been surprisingly easy. \u00a0My deep knowledge of PowerPoint hasn’t hindered me from picking up how to best use SlideRocket quickly. \u00a0I also like that it makes including web-based content easy. \u00a0Want a YouTube video? Done. \u00a0Want a live Twitter feed? \u00a0You got it. \u00a0It’s not magic, but it’s so slick that I don’t care.<\/p>\n

So far, my favorite thing about SlideRocket is the ease of sharing my presentations. \u00a0I create a lot of presentations. \u00a0In my PowerPoint days, sharing a presentation meant that I was emailing it as an attachment, or perhaps storing it on my wiki. \u00a0This, of course, resulted in exceeding my mail quota with all of these attachments. \u00a0With SlideRocket, I share a link and a password to access the presentation. \u00a0My mailbox quota appreciates it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m an early adopter. \u00a0Tell me there’s some new hotness out there on the web, and I’m there to check it out. \u00a0I might or might not continue to use it, but I’ve always checked it out. \u00a0One of my favorite things about working in high tech is that I get to be an uber-early … Continue reading switching to SlideRocket<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliderocket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}