Re-Defining Clipart!

As a direct marketing consultant, I�ve worked with clipart for years, in PowerPoint presentations, training documentation, and client communication�and ToonUps have redefined my understanding and use of clipart and PowerPoint. These tools have elevated my work and my clients work to a new level!

I�ve had the opportunity provide communication solutions to large corporate clients, and entrepreneurs alike. Customers rely on me to help them achieve success in marketing, training and communication strategies. More and more, they seek creative ways to communicate important messages that affect their bottom line, company morale, and job satisfaction. It�s these expectations that drive me to keep an eye out for innovative ideas.

I�m always looking for that special something that will catch people�s attention and deliver the message. When I first saw ToonUps animated clip art I immediately started to brainstorm the various ways I could use them in the PowerPoint presentations I create for my clients.

ToonUps offers so much more than just animated clip art images. The full product line includes downloadable high quality cartoon clip art images, innovative PowerPoint backgrounds and templates, and animated clip art to which you can edit and add your own audio! Can you imagine - customizable clipart that allows you to add images that may include your own photo, photo of coworkers, managers, even your own voice? This is exactly the type of thing I was looking for!

Let me give you some examples of how I have applied this new generation of clip art. First, I�ve found that when presenting training and change management initiatives using customized animated clip art is a smart way to add humor and levity to a business PowerPoint Presentation. I have used ToonUps clip art as ice breakers in training and its offered me ways to drive home major points conveying messages of change. It grabbed the trainee�s attention in a way I have never seen before. I find that my audiences related to the characters and appreciated the technology used to add personalized audio. Because I can add a face and add a voice, the images and messages remain relevant to my audience.

The customization of these clip art images in Powerpoint and other applications such as social media venues, is not difficult. The ToonUps Toolbar makes the product so user friendly I can create the clip art and Powerpoint presentations and message that I want, but I don�t need to hire a Professional Developer. I can do it all myself!

I�ve used ToonUps Co-Stars and YouStar to brand training and give my Powerpoint presentations a cartoon character that the audience can identify. The goal in this particular training was to introduce a new process that the company would use and make the employees comfortable with the change. The employees connected to the process and accepted the change, due largely in part by humorous clip art images and animations that conveyed the messages easily with fun, making the group so receptive.

The organization even used the animated toonup cartoon character in email communications to add flare when they rolled out updates about the new process. The management of the company thanked me for the new approach and documented the success of the process.

Some of my other clients who use ToonUps in clip art and Powerpoint include a successful group of realtors. They�ve started using ToonUps clip art to communicate changes in the market to their clients, announce open houses and spruce up their social networking pages they use to advertise their business. Internally this realtor team is using the ToonUp clip art and animations in motivational Power Point presentations. These presentations are keeping the team upbeat when it comes to approaching the challenging market.

I have introduced Toonups clip art to my colleagues and friends who are entrepreneurs, educators, and event planners. Each of these professionals has found different ways to use ToonUps animated clip art and make their Powerpoint presentations and social media pages come alive. The teachers I know have gotten their classes excited about the subject with clip art from Toonups. An event planner client used family member�s pictures and voices to personalize a PowerPoint montage celebrating a 60th birthday celebration. Everyone at the event was touched by the unexpected and clever way of honoring the occasion. Everyone at the party got a huge laugh out of the PowerPoint and animated clip art with Toonups and was the highlight of the event!

The bottom line is that there are hundreds, even thousands of ways to use ToonUps animated clip art. They are easy to use, easy to customize and fun to view. Just a few simple clicks and you can download something that is NOT the same old clip art you have used for years. For more information and to start animating your clip art presentations, visit www.toonups.com today and get started!

Sharon Grand Palm is author of this article on Animated Facebook Characters. Find more information about Animated PowerPoint Presentations here.