Nicky

Nicky

Nicky is the Head of Customer Success at Showcase Workshop. She likes Otago dried apricots, Discworld novels, swing dancing, and big leafy plants.

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Our Shiny New Editor Part 3: Major New Features

So far in this series, we've given you a 10-minute overview [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/the-new-showcase-editor-demonstration-video/]of the changes to our new editor, a look at how the main layout has

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Our Juicy New Editor Part 2: Changes to the Primary Controls

We previously told you about the changes to the overall layout [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/our-lovely-new-editor-part-1-layout-changes/] in our new editor. Today, we're going to go a little more in-depth and look

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Our Lovely New Editor Part 1: Layout Changes

'Sup, and welcome to the first post in a series of 4 about our cool new editor. We already gave you a quick video overview of all the changes [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.

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Inside Showcase Workshop

The New Showcase Editor: Demonstration Video

We already gave you a cheeky heads-up [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/change-is-coming-a-brand-new-showcase-editor/] that a new editor was on its way. Now, we have video proof! The below is a super speedy run-through of

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Twice as Nice: Our two different Windows apps

If you've ever checked out our app download page [https://showcaseworkshop.com/download/] you might have noticed something a little odd. We have two different apps for Windows computers. ...Am I

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Design Gallery

Design of the Month: Vodafone

Vodafone is arguably one of the most recognisable brands on the planet. So to refresh their logo, tagline and brand positioning across all their collateral is no small feat. Luckily Vodafone NZ have

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Looping Videos now in Beta! (iOS, Showcase XE, Showcase Mac, & web)

Play it again, Showcase! This is a brief note that you can now set a video to endlessly loop in Showcase - until you exit out of it. Leave it running, it'

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Inside Showcase Workshop

The Graphic Designer's Guide to Calculators and Forms in Showcase

You may remember our great three [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/forms-part-1/]-part [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/html5-forms-better-than-michelle-pfeiffer-in-leather-pants/] series [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/the-wonderful-world-beyond-forms-calculators-other-html5-goodness/] on how to put interactive content like forms and calculators

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Share from Here: New 'Slide-Specific' Sharing Feature

Happy belated Valentines Day! We got you a gift because we care. That gift is a brand shiny new sharing interface that allows you to customise sharing right at the slide level. Super!

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Peel the onion & click on it: Hyperlinks in PDFs in Showcase

We've gotta go deeper. Sometimes it isn't enough to put a plain ol' PDF in your showcase. Sometimes it isn't enough to put just a hyperlink

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

On the website: Two improved pages & a new feature

In our continuing quest to be the very best (cut to 80's Rocky training montage), we have smartened up a couple of pages on our website and released a brand spanking-new

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

The Wonderful World Beyond Forms: Calculators & Other HTML5 Magic

Alright homies, this is it. The third and final instalment of our stupefyingly useful and highly entertaining 'Forms' series. We've previously told you all about our simple pop-up forms

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Put on a Show(-case)! Getting your presentations on a big screen

There are some questions we get asked a lot here at Showcase. "How did we ever live without this app??" "Why didn't we do this sooner?" "

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

File under "Fantastic" with the label "New Features"

When winter's only just 'over', but you're still grinding through the day-to-day, low-key fretting about the state of the world at large, it's nice to

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

All the Small Things: Little Improvements to Showcase Website

Honestly, we're all about making your life Showcase building experience better in a ton of tiny ways. Here's a rundown. 1. Better Groups Controls Admins, this is for you.

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Stitch together bits of different showcases like Frankenstein

It's....ALIVE! We've gone on a bit of a feature building spree here at Showcase HQ recently. I already talked about file replacing getting a bit more supercharged -

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

File Replacement is now 3.4x More Powerful in Showcase

Did you know that there is a "Replace Documents" feature in Showcase? When you're editing a showcase, it's in the "More" dropdown. You can use

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Design Showcases Quicker than Ever...

...with our brand-new IDML template. We at Showcase find Adobe InDesign one of the most useful pieces of software to design Showcase slides with - it's got a good balance of

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Customer Examples & Case Studies

Design of the Month: PartsTrader

Will Cass doesn't muck around. And as Product Manager at PartsTrader [https://www.partstrader.co.nz/], he knows that his reps can't muck around either. They only have a

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Release Notes

We're giving you a Crystal Ball!

Not a "you will meet a tall dark handsome stranger", future-predicting crystal ball, but more like a 'Wicked Witch of the West' crystal ball. That is, one where you

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Release Notes

A Small but Nifty New Feature: Listing the Showcases a User has Access to

Howdy, Showcase Admin users. You know we like you a lot. And we want to make life better for you whenever we can. Most of you use our Manage Access feature regularly; but

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Sales & Marketing Articles

Hack My Pitch Up: Our 5½ Best Tips for Effective, Powerful Sales Presentations

Apollo 11 – you know, the space rocket that went to the moon in 1969 – had a little computer on it called the Apollo Guidance Computer. (I say little; it still weighed 31.7kg.

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Two Valuable New Features: Email Pitch & Sharing History

We recently released a whole swag of exciting new features for Editors - you can see a summary in this post [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/insanely-supreme-new-features-for-building-even-better-showcases/] . But what about the Viewer users, huh?

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Insanely Supreme New Features for Building Even Better Showcases

Working at Showcase is usually pretty exciting. The base level of excitement is, generally, pretty up there. But every so often we’ll do something that makes us even more excited than usual,

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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Excellent New Editor Feature #1: Link to Anywhere

Hello there! We recently posted a summary of all the excellent new features on the Showcase Workshop editing engine, going live on WEDNESDAY, 5th OCTOBER. You can check that out here [https://blog.

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