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Two people who care far too much about slide decks

Two people who care far too much about slide decks About
Two people who care
 Two people who care
far too much about slide decks
 far too much about slide decks
DoMoreWithSlides.com is a service of JB Consulting. There is no sales team, no account management layer and no offshore delivery arm. There is John, and there is Laura.
 DoMoreWithSlides.com is a service of JB Consulting. There is no sales team, no account management layer and no offshore delivery arm. There is John, and there is Laura.
Slide decks are where the thinking happens Why we exist
Slide decks are where the thinking happens
 Slide decks are where the thinking happens
Every organisation we’ve worked with keeps its most valuable explanations in slide decks. The architecture that finally made sense. The onboarding session everyone says was excellent. The strategy nobody can quite paraphrase. It’s all in there.
 Every organisation we’ve worked with keeps its most valuable explanations in slide decks. The architecture that finally made sense. The onboarding session everyone says was excellent. The strategy nobody can quite paraphrase. It’s all in there.
And then it sits in a file. Attached to an email, buried in a SharePoint folder, presented once to eleven people and effectively deleted — while someone in another department rebuilds the same explanation from scratch.
 And then it sits in a file. Attached to an email, buried in a SharePoint folder, presented once to eleven people and effectively deleted — while someone in another department rebuilds the same explanation from scratch.
The instinct is to blame PowerPoint, or to tell everybody to stop making decks. We think that’s backwards. People use slides because slides work: they’re fast, they’re visual, and everybody already knows how. The problem isn’t the authoring tool — it’s that the output stops at the file.
 The instinct is to blame PowerPoint, or to tell everybody to stop making decks. We think that’s backwards. People use slides because slides work: they’re fast, they’re visual, and everybody already knows how. The problem isn’t the authoring tool — it’s that the output stops at the file.
So we build the missing half. That’s the entire company.
 So we build the missing half. That’s the entire company.
John Baluka The team JB John Baluka Engineering · Products · Integration
30+ years building software on the Microsoft stack — C#, .NET, Blazor, Azure, and a long, unglamorous familiarity with the Office APIs that turns out to be exactly what this problem needs.
 30+ years building software on the Microsoft stack — C#, .NET, Blazor, Azure, and a long, unglamorous familiarity with the Office APIs that turns out to be exactly what this problem needs.
Most of his career has been spent helping development teams move forward: migrating legacy ASP, VB, Access and Web Forms applications onto something maintainable, and advising teams on where the Microsoft ecosystem is actually going.
 Most of his career has been spent helping development teams move forward: migrating legacy ASP, VB, Access and Web Forms applications onto something maintainable, and advising teams on where the Microsoft ecosystem is actually going.
He writes about that at MovingToBlazor.com, speaks and runs workshops, and built MultimodalSlides because he got tired of watching good decks disappear.
 He writes about that at MovingToBlazor.com, speaks and runs workshops, and built MultimodalSlides because he got tired of watching good decks disappear.
He is the one who will tell you your speaker notes aren’t good enough yet.
 He is the one who will tell you your speaker notes aren’t good enough yet. JohnBaluka.com ↗ LinkedIn ↗ MovingToBlazor.com ↗ John@JohnBaluka.com
Laura Fine The team LF Laura Fine Microsoft 365 · Content & Delivery
Laura works at the point where Microsoft 365 meets the people who have to use it — SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and the content that sprawls across all three. She knows what actually happens to a document library after eighteen months, which is a more useful qualification than it sounds.
 Laura works at the point where Microsoft 365 meets the people who have to use it — SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and the content that sprawls across all three. She knows what actually happens to a document library after eighteen months, which is a more useful qualification than it sounds.
On an engagement she owns the side that isn’t code: how your content is structured, where it should live, who approves it, and whether your team will still be running the process confidently once we’ve gone. She’s the reason our integration work includes training rather than a handover document.
 On an engagement she owns the side that isn’t code: how your content is structured, where it should live, who approves it, and whether your team will still be running the process confidently once we’ve gone. She’s the reason our integration work includes training rather than a handover document.
She is the one who will ask who owns this content in two years.
 She is the one who will ask who owns this content in two years. LinkedIn ↗
Six things we have decided not to compromise on How we work
Six things we’ve decided not to compromise on
 Six things we’ve decided not to compromise on You keep your tools
We will never ask you to migrate to a new authoring platform, learn a proprietary editor, or abandon your templates. Slides get made in PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva. We meet you there.
 We will never ask you to migrate to a new authoring platform, learn a proprietary editor, or abandon your templates. Slides get made in PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva. We meet you there. You own the output
Standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript on your domain. No runtime licence, no per-seat fee, nothing that stops working if you stop paying us.
 Standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript on your domain. No runtime licence, no per-seat fee, nothing that stops working if you stop paying us.
We’d rather train you than retain you
 We’d rather train you than retain you
Every integration engagement includes teaching your team to run the pipeline without us. Open- ended retainers are comfortable for a consultancy and expensive for a client.
 Every integration engagement includes teaching your team to run the pipeline without us. Open- ended retainers are comfortable for a consultancy and expensive for a client. We’ll talk you out of it
We publish a free product that handles the simple version of this problem, and we point people at it. We have never talked a client up a pricing tier.
 We publish a free product that handles the simple version of this problem, and we point people at it. We have never talked a client up a pricing tier.
Accessibility isn’t a phase two
 Accessibility isn’t a phase two
Text alternatives, semantic structure, keyboard navigation and audio come out of the same pipeline as everything else. It isn’t a line item you can cut.
 Text alternatives, semantic structure, keyboard navigation and audio come out of the same pipeline as everything else. It isn’t a line item you can cut. We say what we don’t know
No invented testimonials and no borrowed logos. AgileSlides is described as in development because it is. If we haven’t solved your exact problem before, we’ll tell you on the call.
 No invented testimonials and no borrowed logos. AgileSlides is described as in development because it is. If we haven’t solved your exact problem before, we’ll tell you on the call.
JB Consulting, in plain terms The company
JB Consulting, in plain terms
 JB Consulting, in plain terms
JB Consulting is the company. DoMoreWithSlides.com is where we do the slide work — three products and the hands-on engagements around them.
 JB Consulting is the company. DoMoreWithSlides.com is where we do the slide work — three products and the hands-on engagements around them.
John also does broader Microsoft-stack advisory and development work under his own name at JohnBaluka.com, and writes about Blazor migrations at MovingToBlazor.com. If your problem turns out to be a software problem rather than a slide problem, that’s the same phone call.
 John also does broader Microsoft-stack advisory and development work under his own name at JohnBaluka.com, and writes about Blazor migrations at MovingToBlazor.com. If your problem turns out to be a software problem rather than a slide problem, that’s the same phone call. The guarantee
Every engagement carries a 100% work guarantee: if we don’t deliver what we agreed to deliver, you don’t pay for it.
 Every engagement carries a 100% work guarantee: if we don’t deliver what we agreed to deliver, you don’t pay for it.
Come and tell us about your decks
Come and tell us about your decks
 Come and tell us about your decks
Thirty minutes, free, no pitch. We’re genuinely interested in what’s in your slide folder — it’s the whole reason this company exists.
 Thirty minutes, free, no pitch. We’re genuinely interested in what’s in your slide folder — it’s the whole reason this company exists. Book a free consultation See the products