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PowerPoint...people love it, people hate it, but there's no denying its popularity - according to Presentations Magazine, 30 million are created every day!

e-Learning experts Brandon Hall Research recently issued a report titled PowerPoint to E-Learning Development Tools, where they stated:
"Foryears, Brandon Hall Research has been tracking the popularity ofbrand-name authoring tools (such as Flash, Authorware, Dreamweaver,ToolBook, Lectora Publisher, Trainersoft, etc.). However, there hasalways been an interesting anomaly in our results. Without fail, theuse of PowerPoint as a content authoring tool has eclipsed even themost popular authoring tools."

With Camtasia Studio, TechSmith hasbeen building on the popularity of PowerPoint as an authoring tool fore-Learning by allowing users to easily add multimedia elements such asaudio, video, quizzing and more in a straightforward, practical andeffective fashion.

If you're interested in learning more about how Camtasia Studio and PowerPoint work together, Geetesh Bajaj , Microsoft PPT MVP, has a great tutorial:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/addin/camtasia.html

Besides being a MVP, Geetesh is also a freelance PowerPoint consultant, author and designer. He also runs the sites indezine.com and powerpointed.comand issues a bi-weekly PowerPoint ezine. Obviously, he knows alot about what's going on in the PowerPoint world, and so we've had afun week at the PowerPoint Live conference.

Are you using Camtasia Studio and PowerPoint together? I'dlove to hear about your experience - and see the results! If you'rewilling to share, please post a URL to your videos in the commentsfield.