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If your company uses Web meetings, you already know what would make them better: HD video, full-screen transitions between slides, mixing slides from different presentations, a preview of the next slide, no need to launch a separate application to host meetings, and lower cost than the competition. We’ve been hard at work making all of these things happen — right from CustomShow!

The new browser-based interface for CustomShow Web meetings

Here’s what makes our Web meetings exciting:

HD video: CustomShow now lets you present full-screen video to your audience over the Web.

Full-screen transitions between slides: Existing Web meeting software translates your PowerPoint slides into a low-quality experience that stutters and stalls. CustomShow Web meetings offer a high-quality experience that looks every bit as great as being in the same room.

Mixing slides from different presentations: CustomShow makes it easy to pull slides from multiple places into a single Web meeting. No more switching between applications or launching files while your audience watches.

Preview of the next slide: It’s easy to forget what’s coming next in the heat of the moment. CustomShow displays the next slide before your audience sees it, so you never have to wonder.

Single app: Part of what makes existing Web meeting software so frustrating is that it’s a separate application. CustomShow is your presentation software, and now it’s also your Web meeting software. There’s no difference, there’s nothing else to launch, and it works smoothly.

Less expensive than the competition: We’ve priced our Web meetings significantly below existing Web meeting products.

We’ll be posting more info soon, and please feel free to contact us immediately for more info.

Thank you to the Fitting Group, who is featuring our CustomShow presentation software in Challenger Brand News this week. We are indeed going up against Goliath in the form of Microsoft PowerPoint. The good news is that no one loves PowerPoint, everyone simply tolerates it.

As mentioned in the article, we’ve been able to convince major brands to switch to CustomShow. Our customers include “DIRECTV, CNN, Bravo, The New Yorker, A&E, ELLE, The Wall Street Journal and Dior. And that’s just the short list.”

Here’s what Challenger Brand News has to say about CustomShow:

Beyond being dazzling, CustomShow sports a number of boons. On the one hand, it allows control over the information being presented in a way that ensures that the company’s brand guidelines are consistent. But on the other, it allows quick and easy customization of presentations to permit flexibility.

More than anything, CustomShow is a presentation program for a world with a short attention span and high visual expectations.

And they don’t even mention our new Web meeting capability, which plays high-definition video smoothly. You can find the entire Challenger Brand article here.

The National Geographic Channel will roll out CustomShow as its enterprise presentation platform for Advertising Sales. This means that the entire sales team will have eye-catching animated slides at their fingertips. These slides will update themselves, saving the sales team hours of work every time they customize a presentation.

The Nat Geo marketing team will rely on CustomShow to effectively manage and update their library of slides and presentations throughout the year for their entire sales team. CustomShow lets them control message and design across the company in real-time.

Nat Geo joins a growing list of Fox Cable Networks that are using CustomShow to manage their presentations, including F/X, Big Ten, SPEED, FUEL, Fox Sports Net, and Fox Affiliates.

To launch their new internal idea-generating program, The Power of Suggestion, Condé Nast turned to the award-winning design team at Sales Graphics to produce a video that showcased some of the many employees at Condé Nast with great ideas to share.

After interviewing over 40 employees and listening to their ideas for how to improve Condé Nast and generate new revenue streams, Sales Graphics edited together a sampling of their ideas and produced an engaging video that helped sell the idea through to senior management.

The “Power of Suggestion” video now lives on Condé Nast’s Intranet to help encourage more employees to share their ideas, and to help Condé Nast continue to be a leader in the media industry.

MTV Networks Entertainment Group chose Sales Graphics to design their 2010 Digital Upfront presentation. They’re also using CustomShow to deliver and manage the slides across their entire salesforce.

To ensure that each of our CustomShow users is getting the most out of our software, we’re kicking off 2010 with a weekly series of online training webinars. These are completely free, so just sign up and get the latest on how to use CustomShow. If you’re a brand new user, have specific questions, want a refresher, or are just curious about all of CustomShow’s features, then these webinars are for you!

You can sign up here (we post new sessions every month). This is just one more way that Sales Graphics is working to make CustomShow not only the best presentation software in the industry, but the best presentation software experience.

Training Webinars will be held on Thursdays at 3:00PM EST (12:00PM PST). Call-in information will be emailed to registered participants before each Training Webinar.