For the most part, the alternatives offer similar functionality to PowerPoint, sometimes more, sometimes less. One obvious advantage to Web-based presentations is that they’re stored in the cloud, eliminating the potential for nightmare scenarios involving lost or corrupted thumb drives.
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How to avoid creating a snooze-worthy PowerPoint presentation
It’s not PowerPoint’s fault your PowerPoint presentation sucks. Like Comic Sans, it just gets a bad rap because of how it is egregiously misused. Use the following tips to liven up your presentation and discourage your audience from looking for …
How NOT To Use PowerPoint
PowerPoint Templates and how to use them
Presentations can often be boring, uninteresting, unimaginative, dull [insert your own negative description based on the presentations you’ve wished you had missed here] but that is not always the fault of the speaker. In this article the author, Daniel McMillan, …
20 Free PowerPoint Templates that Don’t Suck
Want to spice up your presentations a little? Tired of the same old “default” themes that Powerpoint brings along for the ride? Check out these 20 free Powerpoint templates that…well…don’t suck.
http://workawesome.com/software/20-free-powerpoint-templates-that-dont-suck/…
Microsoft pptPlex: Improving your Powerpoint Presentations
pptPlex is a research prototype developed by Microsoft Office Labs as an exploration of an alternative method of presenting Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 slides. This plug-in allows you to arrange slides on a canvas then zoom between the slides during …
Crocodoc – Share and Mark-up Documents
Crocodoc is a simple service that allows users to quickly share and edit PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint files. Using Crocodoc does not require you to register for an account. To use Crocodoc just upload your file, select your marking …
Zentation: Combine & Sync Presentation With Video
Powerpoint has changed public speaking, in that those listening to a presentation have visual cues and point forms to glance at. These cues and points often give context to a speaker. Zentation aims to bring the advantages of a PowerPoint …
Prezi Announces New, Free Education Licenses
Prezi, a great service for taking presentations beyond bullets and pictures, has just announced that they’re offering a free education license for teachers and students. The new education license will allow teachers and students to keep their content private. The …
5 PowerPoint Search Engines To Seek Out Publicly Available Presentations
Some estimates put the number of presentations on the web close to 30 to 50 million. But we have to search them out. Using a general search engine with PPT as a filetype query is one way. But if you …
How To Integrate Twitter with PowerPoint: Tweet Presentation Notes & See Instant Feedback
Speakers and presenters at conferences are increasingly finding their audience live tweeting during their presentation. In most cases, the presenter has no clue about what the audience is saying on Twitter. This leads to a disconnect between the true thoughts …