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Presentation Tools: Beyond Powerpoint By Martin Belam

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 Apr, 2010

...Often at work we research and produce data that will eventually assist ... alternatives to Microsoft's software - some of which are free... [more]

OpenOffice Presentation Tool

Google Presentations

Apple Keynote

Prezi

SlideShare

FUMSI article

Martin Belam is Information Architect at guardian.co.uk, and the Contributing Editor for Share at FUMSI. Over the last decade he has given countless presentations at conferences, where as much as possible he tries to avoid PowerPoint's default format bulleted lists. Martin blogs at currybet.net, and you can find some of his presentations of work from The Guardian and the BBC at http://www.slideshare.net/currybet

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7 Things You Should Know About Next-Generation Presentation Tools

Posted by Celia Walter | 14 Feb, 2010

The folks at Educause have created another one of their helpful “7 Things” guides, this time discussing 7 Things You Should Know About Next-Generation Presentation Tools. New online presentation services such as Slideshare.net are covered in this article which answers the following questions:

What is it?
Who’s doing it?
How does it work?
Why is it significant?
What are the downsides?
Where is it going?
What are the implications for teaching and learning?

From iLibrarian blog

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Make Better Presentations - The Anatomy of a Good Speech

Posted by Celia Walter | 25 Feb, 2009

Social media guru Chris Brogan offers speaking advice in his latest post, Make Better Presentations - The Anatomy of a Good Speech. If you have an upcoming presentation, you may want to stop by and check out these tips:

Start with WIIFM
What Is the Goal of a Presentation?
Use a Framework of Some Kind
Inspiration for Great Speeches
Shop Your Work
How I’ve Been Doing It

iLibrarian

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Stop blaming PowerPoint. Learn how to kick some arse with it

Posted by Celia Walter | 10 Jul, 2008

Good Presentations Kick Butt

Good Visuals Don’t Make A Speech, They Complement A Speaker

Here are two popular and compelling presentations from SlideShare

How To Present More Effectively

Cliff Atkinson, who wrote Beyond Bullet Points. I’d highly recommend either this interview with him or checking out a free webinar called “How to Create a 15-Minute Presentation (with Graphics!) in One Hour”
Craig Ball, who is perhaps the best known speaker on the topics of PowerPoint and electronic evidence in the courtroom
Kathy Sierra, who has always been an incredible role model in all things to do with presenting information. On her blog she discussed when to use PowerPoint and how to incorporate graphics into presentations

A Few Tips To Get Started

Keep fonts 18pt or larger (so people can read them)
Avoid sentences when possible. Avoid paragraphs 99% of the time
If you don’t know a lot about animation or transitions, don’t bother with them–it’ll do more harm than good (no one will notice it missing, but everyone will notice if you’re trying out “fancy new stuff”)
Avoid clipart. Try Flickr or iStockPhoto
Use full screen images to drive points home

My advice

If you present regularly, visit the references above (as well as Presentation Zen) for insight into professional and compelling presentation design. (Oh, and my company designs PowerPoint templates. Go figure…

From Technotheory

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Create Excellent Presentations Online

Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Jun, 2008

4+ Ways to Quickly Create Excellent Presentations Online

June 24th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb presents 4+ Ways to Quickly Create Excellent Presentations Online in which they offer an annotated list of free Web-based presentation software - 7 in all including:

If you do have a presentation coming up, you may want to download iPresentee’s package of 100 free Keynote Objects for Apple’s Keynote, and also check out 4 Ways to Spice up your Presentations.

iLibrarian blog

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Talk Good: Giving Effective Presentations

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Feb, 2008

http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2008/02/talk-good-giving-effective.html

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13 online presentation creators

Posted by Celia Walter | 18 Feb, 2008

Mashable tells us to forget PowerPoint in favor of 13 online presentation creators. These applications enable users to create PowerPoint-like slideshows on the Web, share them, store them, and some can even be embedded in within websites and blogs. I would add that once the slideshows are complete, they can also be uploaded to Slideshare.net to be shared and displayed in widgets on Facebook and other social networking profiles.

Also, check out Mashable’s lists of 14 online spreadsheet applications and 13 online word processors.

From: http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/

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Ten Steps to Giving a Presentation Like Steve Jobs

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Jan, 2008

iLibrarian blog January 28th, 2008

Carmine Gallo of BusinessWeek breaks down the elements of an inspirational presentation through his analysis of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ Macworld ‘08 keynote. He offers us the following advice when delivering a presentation:

Set the theme.
Demonstrate enthusiasm.
Provide an outline.
Make numbers meaningful.
Try for an unforgettable moment.
Create visual slides.
Give ‘em a show.
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Sell the benefit.
Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

Read more about this 10-part framework in the original article, and for a breakdown of Jobs’ keynote address announcements, (including the MacBook Air laptop), check out this slideshow.

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