Comments on: The “Presentation” Release – Slide Over Documents, Make Room for Presentations

By: libby spears

libby spears — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:32:19 +0000

We use Slide Share all the time (bravo cc) as a marketing tool. There are some GREAT presentations on there you just have to have the time to shuffle through the less than stellar ones there. Here’s to better presentations for us all

By: Miguel.M

Miguel.M — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:45:42 +0000

Minds with the same worries think alike.
Once again I’m glad the presentations world is shifting to concepts I’ve been using for a couple of years.
Powerpoint or Flash based press-kits are a common thing in my day-to-day presentation productions, specially when launching consumer products.
Usually those presentations have 3 versions:
A wider/deeper one for Marketeers presenting to the Sales Force, a 2nd lighter one for Sales presenting to Market Distributors and an even lighter one, reduced to product performance qualities and media communication, to be distribucted to the Media as Press-kits or… Press-releases.
About Slideshare… well, let me add to Andrej’s comment. With more than a million users, SS unhappily mirrors the world… beeing nowadays, a place for any kind of presentations, from good ones, through concept ones, to the worse boringly
disgusting “crying child in a flower environment” amateurish presentations I’ve ever watched.
Worse than that, technicaly SS isn´t a good example since it converts the ppts to simple static slide-shows, and one has to download the presentations to watch them properly… unless the user uploaded a ppt with a “youtube” link to its video converted version…

By: andrej

andrej — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:31:08 +0000

Unfortunately, slideshare still expects presentations to be filled with bullet-points. The transcript under every presentation on slideshare only shows the contents of the slides. However, if you upload visual presentations that don’t contain any text, just slides titles, it doesn’t recognize those. It would be very useful if slideshare started showing the slide titles. Here’s an example: http://www.slideshare.net/andrejk/web20-enterprise20

By: Steve Cherches

Steve Cherches — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:03:09 +0000

Excellent…! Another paradigm shift for (ineffective) business as usual, and another opportunity for visual communication. As mentioned above, heeding the warning may be challenging, and we might see lots of documents replaced with bad presentations. That said, we can continue to spread the word…!

By: Michael Deutch

Michael Deutch — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:20:09 +0000

It’s exciting to see the world move away from boring text lists and bullet points to refreshingly visual content! But I agree, companies should heed your warning that making compelling presentations is not so simple. A great way to flush out your content is to use mind maps! Whether on paper or using software like Mindjet’s MindManager, you could brainstorm and organize your ideas into a compelling story to complement your release.