Success with AIS digital slide sets, revitalizing clubs

["K. Loberg" <iris.loberg@comcast.net>]

Greetings,

   I wanted to recap the recent success I had with obtaining several of the 
digital slide sets from Janet Smith.  Hopefully you'll recall my earlier 
post about the new type of LCD projector we obtained for our local club. 
Our model is an Epson, but I know Panasonic makes similar ones and there are 
surely others.  These new LCD projectors allow one to plug in a USB memory 
card to the USB memory port and run a slide show. no laptop or PC is needed.

   Janet has all of the digital slide sets designed for a Power Point 
presentation.  Sometimes people don't have PowerPoint included with the 
Microsoft Office installation, and some may not be able to run PowerPoint on 
the Mac Pcs.  There are PowerPoint viewers for either Macs or Windows PCs 
for those who don't have Power Point installed.

   And for those who may have these newer LCD projectors, there is a simple 
way to save the slides right out of PowerPoint (Janet's slide sets) to a 
folder, and it "unloads" all of the images as a jpeg image.  It takes less 
than 2 minutes, and then you copy them to the memory card, and you are 
ready.   Janet, Rita Gormley, John Jones and I did a collaborative effort 
which led to my successful results with the slides.

   The new LCD projector we have is fully featured, it will interface with 
PCs and Video equipment.  Just 1 week ago I ran 90 minute film for a 
seminar, interfacing to a video player and it ran beautifully.

   For my local club, this is providing a new opportunity to add excitement 
and interesting programs back into our club meetings.  I believe it will 
help us attract new members and inspire gardeners to enjoy the love of 
irises.

   A big thank you to Janet for the efforts she is making to prepare these 
AIS slide sets!   I think many of us can share slide programs we ourselves 
may have, as it is so simple to copy them on to a CD and drop them in the 
mail to someone else.

Kitty

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