Sliderocket.com looks good, but to get the best out of it one would have to go for one of the paid versions. I’m too mean. I’ll stick to Keynote.

You got it … lots of relevant images. What was that old saying about a word being worth so many words?!

I am trying to learn Apple’s Keynote for an upcoming conference because I have seen some terrific Keynote presentations. But it is like learning a new language.

David

Unfortunately those presentations are alive and well in US Business, and flourishing. I see about 1-2 of them a week. One a couple weeks ago had 182 slides. 20 minutes was the time limit allowed for their presentation

They ran over by 5 days.

Keynote is great. But I think the new SlideRocket.com blows away PowerPoint and Keynote. Agree with boring part of the presentations. But a lot of that is the PRESENTER not knowing how to present an idea properly. A while back Guy Kawasaki had a 10-20-30 rule for PPT presentions to him and his VC’s.

10 – no more than 10 ideas/categories (value prop-marketing/sales-hr etc,)
20 – no more than 20 slides
30- use no smaller than 30 font.

SlideRocket can turn that on it’s head. I now use more slide – but try to use 50-60 font – which forces you to use 3- 8 words. Sorta like a headline, shorter than Twitter even. What makes SlideRocket exeptional is the online management of digital assets, tracking, sharing, publishing and the ability to search Flickr/YOUTUBE/web live for clips, images, quotes and insert into the presentations. The transitions are powerful as well.

I did one on Web 2.0 communication tools and inserted a clip from the movie Apollo 13. Check it otu.

http://bit.ly/19sdv2 – check it out full screen.

Slide 3 loads a little slow – it’s a movie clip. You could autorun it at 1 sec per slide clips and it takes about 2.5-3.0 minutes

It was put together to help normal people try to get a look (from a geek-safe distance) at some of the emerging tools, services and principles of this new and evolving communications media.

Lot of pictures. Not many words. You’re head won’t explode. But it might get close. Takes about 2-3 minutes to go through. It was used in a recent article for friends about the Wild and Wacky World of Web 2.o presentations. As a WEB 2.0 101 for normal people about to dip their feet in the web 2.0 waters

http://bit.ly/2bfnY9

Best

Steve

And … I just got the domain names and Inmotion hosting. should be active shortly.

I think other services like SlideShare take the idea a step further. Twitter forces brevity, but how does your presentation change when your audience can only see the visuals without your accompanying speech?

Both brevity and clarity are requirements for the most effective presentations.

You are so right about Steve Jobs as the king of presentations. Of course, he uses Apple’s Notes software which is better than Powerpoint, and each slide only contains a couple of words, perhaps an image.

David

I’ve sat through so many boring government presentations that I groan when another one appears on the screen.

Steve Jobs is the king of effective presentations.

And twitter is tremendous! http://www.twitter.com/jbarnabasl