FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools


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Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience?

The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.

There are currently eight tools – you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks:

  • PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides
  • PowerPoint AutoTweet,
  • PowerPoint Twitter voting — bar charts and pie chart
  • PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar
  • PowerPoint Mood meter
  • PowerPoint Crowd meter
  • PowerPoint Zoom text
  • PowerPoint Twitter update bar

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Download the PowerPoint presentation with embedded PowerPoint Twitter Tools as a .zip file (Office 2007)

Download the PowerPoint presentation with embedded PowerPoint Twitter Tools as .ppt file (Office 2003)

NOTE: Windows Only. See here for a Prezi prototype that works on a Mac

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Read detailed instructions, frequently asked questions and troubleshooting

Display a feedback slide with questions and comments from Twitter

Get ahead of the backchannel! Put in feedback slides at regular intervals throughout your presentation, so you’re not the only one who doesn’t know what’s going on!

Original format:

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Alternate format:

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Worried about what the audience might say? Don’t worry – the tools support moderation with TidyTweet, which provides a free service to eliminate inappropriate tweets, either automatically (swear words) or manually.

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The tools be preset and preconfigured for use in templates or presentations that others are going to give, and you can even use them within your organization in conjunction with a microblogging service such as http://status.net.

AutoTweet

You can even tweet out your key points during the presentation using the PowerPoint AutoTweet functionality, available as a PowerPoint Add-in.

Install the add-in, then add the text that you want automatically tweeted between the tags [twitter] and [/twitter]. Only supported in PowerPoint for Windows (the idea is based on similar functionality already available for Keynote on the Macintosh).

Because it’s very hard to use the new “OAuth” verification now required by Twitter directly from Office products, I’ve used a service provided by Supertweet.net — you create an account on that site using your twitter username, but a different password, and then you use those credentials in the AutoTweet window below.

Download the AutoTweet add-in (right-mouse click and “save as”) for PowerPoint 2007 or PowerPoint 2003 (apparently this version works best for PowerPoint 2010, too)

Alternatively, you can reply directly to comments and update your twitter feed from within your PowerPoint presentation using the update bar:

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Real-time voting over Twitter

Make sure the audience doesn’t have time for snarky tweets by engaging them — let them vote on choices by sending a tweet! Chart choices include pie chart, or two to six choices, and up to 100 votes. If all is functioning smoothly, you can get votes from the audience in around 30 seconds.

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Display a real-time twitter Bar at the bottom of each slide

A separate feedback slide isn’t real-time enough for you? The twitter ticker bar can sit at the bottom of each PowerPoint slide, displaying the ten latest tweets that contain a particular search string. Status is maintained across slide transitions.

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Mood Meter

This is a variation on voting. Perfect for debates, it allows participants to signal their agreement or disagreement with a proposition over the course of a presentation (e.g. “Is SAP doing innovation in the Web 2.0 world?)

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Crowd Meter

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

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PowerPoint Zoom Text

Choose the text you’d like to see zooming into the screen – click on values to swoop them into the center:

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Watch this space for more information about this technology. Contact me if you’d like more information! timo.elliott@sap.com or follow news about the project on http://twitter.com/sapweb20

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301 Responses to “FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools”
  1. Damduin says:

    Hi Tim,

    The 2007 ppt link does not download any powerpoint. Or am I missing something. I get and zip file with a lot of content but no powerpoint file. The 2003 link does give a ppt and that works fine!

    Cheers,
    Robert

  2. Peta says:

    Does this work with Open Office? or is there a version in the pipeline for Open Office Impress.

  3. Patricia says:

    Anything for Mac users??

    • Timo Elliott says:

      No support for Mac — it looks like embedding Flash isn’t supported in PowerPoint for Mac or Keynote…

      • Phyr says:

        Apparently you can use the HTML Snippet in Keynote to put any Flash file in your presentation using ordinary embed code.

        • Timo Elliott says:

          I’ll try it as soon as I can access a Mac! (I’m not cool enough to own one / I’m waiting for the Apple Tablet) From what I’ve read so far, it looks like the code you need is exactly what’s provided when you click on the “embed” icon on each tool — but I’m not yet sure how to actually embed that code in Keynote or PowerPoint for Mac.

  4. Lars says:

    Timo: Great tools! Thanks a lot for sharing!

  5. Conor Neill says:

    Great tools, just downloaded and already working well. I have a presentation coming up and will let you know how the twitter interaction goes. A big thanks for providing these powerpoint tools.

  6. That´s great! Congrats!
    I´m a professor and I´ll try it today at class.

  7. Keith A Cronk says:

    When will these tools be available for Mac?

  8. Steve Mann says:

    Timo… verrrrrry cool!!!! Who did this????

    S

  9. Tony Ramos says:

    I recently came across the video by you and James Governor giving a demo.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pkQiu14obQ
    Thanks for building this tool, Timo.

    (Tweeted http://twitter.com/tonyramos/statuses/5310074424 and blogged http://tonyramos.com/blog/?p=207)

  10. Willem says:

    Sorry, but I get the same error in the local version as well! Really hope Twitter will fix this because I just wanted to give a presentation tonight and had to improvise…

  11. Doug says:

    Timo — Very cool stuff (I’m a longtime Xcelsius fan). For secure/internal use, I wonder if it can be used with Yammer instead of Status.net?

    • Timo Elliott says:

      It should be possible, but I just haven’t been able to find the time — Yammer uses OAuth authorization, which is a bit more complicated to manage, and the API is a little different. Which tools would be the priority? Feedback slides?

  12. Kay Wesley says:

    Thanks so much for this..exactly what I’ve been needing to explain to pharma clients just what you can do with Twitter!

  13. Dale Lane says:

    Very nice – I’ve used a much simpler example of the same idea for a while now (http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=640) – having live tweets for a given hashtag show up in a column to the right of my slides.

    But this takes it much further – the ability to do live voting using twitter during a presentation is definitely something I want to try! :-)

  14. Fred says:

    Guys, great tool and post but I can’t test it :( the DOWNLOAD NOW button is broken (tried different browsers). Could I download the AutoTweet.ppam file somewhere else??

    Thanks!
    Fred

  15. Tom King says:

    Any way these great tools can be provided of Mac OS X?

  16. ialexs says:

    if this also works with OpenOffice… i’ll send you gift! :)

    thanks for the tool!

    • Timo Elliott says:

      I’ve read that it might be possible, but not supported. I’ve tried to insert the tools as Flash objects into an OpenOffice presentation, but I haven’t managed to get it working, on either Windows or Ubuntu — it just crashes… Might need to wait for a OpenOffice upgrade…

      • teddy says:

        Hi Timo, great work!
        It would be even greater if it could be supported by open office… did you try recently with the new version?
        thanks

  17. Dana Howard says:

    Please help! I would really like to use all of these tools but when I hit Download now.. the only files I get are the Autotweet add in and the powerpoint and the swf file.. I specifically want the feedback slide.. what am I missing?

  18. Does this work with Office 2010? I just downloaded the beta.

    Also, does it work if you’re doing a PPT over a webinar? Thanks, it looks like a great set of tools.

    • Timo Elliott says:

      I haven’t had a chance to try it with Office 2010, but it uses a supported feature, not a hack, so no reason to think it shouldn’t… It works fine with webinars, as long as you’re using a system where you can transmit your screen, not just show pre-loaded slide images (most allow you to do this)

    • Fred says:

      It does work Cindy :) Here’s our last week webinar were I also mentioned that I would be tweeting from my slides :) Also, if you follow the hash tag you’ll see it in action “How to build your business network with social media” http://bit.ly/59G5pW #sm4biz

    • Wow, looks stunning, just wish that the authentication was via Twitter oAuth and not passing credentials directly.

      I’m also prepping a demo (in PowerPoint 2010) on SharePoint & Office 2010 that will be webcast via WebEx… any idea if this will work in that sort of scenario ?

      Not interested in elevating presentation #fail risk … ;)

      • Timo Elliott says:

        I’m told it works fine in PowerPoint 2010, but I’ve not had a chance to try it myself — in general, you can’t even rely on Twitter to be working, so I’d make sure your presentation doesn’t rely 100% on using the tool! Best of luck… I’ll take a look again at OAuth — last time I looked, it was a bit of a pain to add to a non-web application, but I think I heard Twitter say they were looking to make it easier…

        • LOL – wise words about the general availability of Twitter itself, never mind the 3rd party interface/tool crashing.

          Don’t want to give the audience a live demo of #failwhale … :)

  19. Your tools are fun and easy to use. I’ve been using the tool set this week making presentations and the audience was wowed by what was going on. I’ve only used the Auto Tweeter, the Twitter poll and the Twitter ribbon but this makes presentation so much fun.

  20. Thanks so much for the terrific powerpoint/twitter tools! I had opportunity to use the feedback slide for the first time this week with a group of education leaders from ASCD. It worked beautifully and the group loved it! See the results here http://www.knowledgeworks.org/worldoflearning/ascd-2010-conference/ Can’t wait to explore the other options.

  21. Tony Ramos says:

    Came across this:
    http://twitpic.com/19dl0c
    London DJ accepting requests via tweets, displaying on wall via your tool.

  22. Julian says:

    Nice tool! Thanks.

  23. Jose Alvarez Cornett says:

    Nice, nice but I am a Mac user. So it is useless to me.

  24. ugur candan says:

    Hi Timo,
    Is there a way to change ” @votebytweet “.
    br
    ugur

    • Timo Elliott says:

      No, hard-coded I’m afraid. But it’s optional, so you can vote without it, and it will take the first character of any tweet that matches the search string…

  25. William says:

    This seems to be a great tool, but Timo, I have a question:

    Does it work on Office 2010?

  26. Megan says:

    Hi,

    I’m wondering if this will work in PowerPoint Office 2004 for Mac? I’d really like to use this for an upcoming presentation, but I only have Office 2004 on my Mac, not Prezi.

  27. matthew links says:

    I had a lot of trouble posting the ticker bar into my master slide. 2 tips.(1) the ticker bar is not the button that enables the ticker bar but the invisible bit below that appears when activated.Pasting the activation button by itself doesnt help. (2) You need to save your presentation in powerpoint 2007 as a macro-enabled file. Some problems with the syntax for the keyword command it doesnt recognize my close quotes and treats it as a character? In any case beautiful work- now for the fun part!

  28. Dorn says:

    I am hoping to use your tools in my university lectures. I have placed the “feedback” slide into my lectures so that students can tweet questions during class. Unfortunately, my experimental tweets won’t appear on the feedback slide. I’ve used a unique hastag and matched it in my tweets (in addition to the @votebytweet), but nothing. I’ve read through all of your troubleshooting materials, too. It did appear once, but it took hours for it to appear on the powerpoint presentation. Has the SAP site been down? Are you still supporting these functions? Any help would be great.

    • Timo Elliott says:

      Sorry about the delay in replying. It’s not clear whether you see the feedback slide, and there’s no tweets visible, or you don’t see the feedback slide at all (i.e. there’s no word bubbles visible). If it’s the latter, you may want to try the “local” version, where the flash .swf file is on your PC: http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/ppttools/powerpoint_twitter_tools_local.zip.

      If it’s the former, it may be because of an “unusual” character in the hashtag that isn’t being picked up correctly in the search, or it may be simply that Twitter was down / slow for a while (the tweets themselves don’t go through any SAP server, so any delays are from Twitter itself).

      Finally, let me know if you’re using PowerPoint 2010 — I heard a rumor that one of the point updates didn’t support the embedded Flash files for a while…

      Regards,
      Timo

  29. Jay A. Allen says:

    Timo,
    I am STOKED to have “Googled-upon” your incredible talent and that it appears to work with MSO2010.
    Thanks for your dedication to making presentations more than just that.
    BZ!
    @jay_a_allen

  30. Hi,

    Try http://www.supertweet.net/ – this site should handle the oAuth stuff on Twitter for you. You’ll only have to change the URL to api.supertweet.net instead of Twitter.com. Unfortunatly the end-user will have to create an extra password at SuperTweet.net but that’s real easy.

    Hope this helps,

    Patrick Mackaaij

  31. There is a typo in the download-URL of Autotweet for PowerPoint 2003: AutoTweet.ppa not .ppt

  32. Craig Taylor says:

    Hi,

    I am having real problems with using the Twitter auto-function within PowerPoint. I have used it previously to great effect, but today I am receiving the tweet status update telling me that there is a problem with my log in/password details!

    I have triple checked all settings, including checking my Twitter account and all details ARE correct.

    I am using the 2007 tool within PPT 2010 (this has previously worked fine)

    Can you please advise? I have an unconference on 16/09/10 and really want to demo this functionality.

    Thanks

    Craig

  33. Arun Bala says:

    REALLY COOL!

  34. Steven says:

    I’m trying the Prezi version, but can’t change the ‘search word’, which is now ‘prezi’. How can I change this? When clicking on it, I can’t alter the text. Please help or mail me at info@stevendenboer.nl

    Thanks.
    Steven

  35. frances burnett says:

    Hi, great tool for prezi, having some trouble getting it to work either at your site or after I downloaded and put in Prezi.What does the the custom box for and what does use vars mean? any insight will be greatly appreciated. My prezi that I started is SMITTEN W/TWITTER. Would like to use it at Lilly Conference 2011 in Feb.

  36. Cricote says:

    No me funciona el link de descarga para integrarlo con powerpoint 2007 :(

  37. James says:

    I’m trying to download this Auto Twitter tool however whenever i try to do so from within the presentation for Microsoft Office 2003 it says that ‘the internet site does not contain the file that i want to download’ ???

    Why is this

  38. Has anyone had the AutoTweet working at the same time as the TurningPoint audience response system … my POwerPoint doesn’t have the plugin unless I use the PPA file saved to my desktop to open PowerPoint, but I can’t open the TP presentation unless I use the desktop icon … arghh!

    David.

  39. I tried to download the autotweet function from your page above and it downloads but the file for powerpoint 2007 does not contain any of the extensions for powerpoint attached. its all xml files

  40. Power says:

    This is a very nice share, man. Thank you very much indeed.

  41. Craig Taylor says:

    Hi Tim,

    I’ve had this working on my laptop before but have suffered a hard drive failure and am having to reinstall everything.

    I have downloaded the 2 x versions, opened up PPT 2010, selected Options, Add Ins, PowerPoint add ins and placed a tick against the autotweet add in, but unfortunately the actual plug in option no longer appears as a tab in PPT.

    Any ideas?

    Craig

  42. Very cool stuff. Thanks!

  43. Thanks Timo:

    great tool and will evangelize it!

    Best,

    Natascha

  44. Kyle Hilla says:

    I can’t seem to get AutoTweet to work? I am assuming it is because you now login to Supertweet.net with your Twitter account so there is not creation of a Supertweet password. Am I missing something here?

    • Timo Elliott says:

      It’s working for me… the Supertweet site isn’t very easy to understand: log in with your twitter ID, put some information about the “application” that you want to authorize (just put Autotweet and your info), verify your email, and click on the “secret” text to set your supertweet password — then use that password in the login box for Autotweet…

  45. Morgan says:

    Hi there,

    I saw this tool (pretty sure it was this exactly) being used in a great presentation, but the presenters were able to have the audience text in and the results appeared the same way… Do you have any idea how this could be done? Thanks!

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