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Posts Tagged With: "SlideShare"

The New SlideShare Ribbon

Posted by Bert Decker   |   December 15th, 2008   |   3 Comments   |  Tweet This

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SlideShare is a great application most of you know about and use – it allows everyone to share PowerPoint presentations and decks easily and effectively. And among other things they have The World's Best Presentation Contest every year.

Now the SlideShare folks have come up with another new function. They worked with Microsoft on the "SlideShare Ribbon" which lets you use the full functionality of SlideShare from within PowerPoint. I think this is the first time a Web 2.0 property has been embedded so deeply into desktop productivity software.

You can download to SlideShare, upload, search, comment, and bookmark, all from within PowerPoint. And it gives the aspiring social media marketer a nice console for seeing how much reach (views, downloads, favoritings, etc).

Here is an introduction to the SlideShare Ribbon. It's a great tool, but for now it's Windows only – I understand the Mac version will be on the way before long.

So if you use PP and a PC and Windows, here is where you can get and install the SlideShare Ribbon.

PS: Here's a view of our new logo Decker_logo_2color_RGB


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SlideShare – World’s Best Slideshows

Posted by Bert Decker   |   September 2nd, 2008   |   Leave a Comment   |  Tweet This

SlideShare has announced the winners of the World’s Best Presentation Contest.

#1 was

THIRST
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)
And very well deserved. Creative, with powerful advocacy. You will never know how little you knew about water…

Judges were Guy Kawasaki, Garr Reynolds, Nancy Duarte and myself. Very interesting contest with many great designs – more on that later.

See them all here.






New Improved SlideShare Contest

Posted by Bert Decker   |   July 6th, 2008   |   Leave a Comment   |  Tweet This

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The Second Annual SlideShare Contest is underway, and it is improved, interesting and invaluable.

Three reasons:

  1. furthering the dialogue about how to use PowerPoint/Keynote
  2. presenting a myriad of vivid examples of excellence (and sometimes not so excellent)
  3. ultimately honing in on the important differences of using in person presentation (visual, audio, person – most business presentations), audio and written design (visual, audio – webinars, etc) and written and designed decks (visual only – slideshows without sound.)
  • You should enter, as you can win some great prizes, including a MacBook Air, Kindle, IPods, etc. And get competitive – it will hone your design skills.





World’s Best Presentation Contest Winners

Posted by Bert Decker   |   May 8th, 2007   |   1 Comment   |  Tweet This

Contest_logosmall Slideshare has just announced the winners of the first World’s Best Presentation Contest. OK, these are not really presentations, because they do not have the critical human element – but they are standalone PowerPoint decks – and useful to see what the best are doing.

What was exciting was that these were not just pedantic slide shows, but were visual and arresting. If only one of the entries had a "black slide" or an explanation of what went along with the visual support – they would have had me applauding! Most of us are still missing the point in what makes an arresting presentation -  it’s not the PowerPoint but the People.

We judged them on design, impact and message (or at least I did.) Guy Kawasaki, Garr Reynolds and Jerry Weisman were the other judges – and I think we pretty much agreed on the best of over 400 entries.

What I was delighted in was the originality and visual quality of almost all of the entries. And next I hope we can figure out a way to have videos of the actual presentations – then we will have a "Presentation Contest" worthy of the name. But this is a great start.

Winners (chosen by judges)

  1. ShiftHappens by Jbrenman

  2. Meet Henry by Chereemoore
  3. Sustainable Food Lab by Chrislandry

People’s Choice Winners

  1. PaniPuri–An Introduction by Thakkar

  2. ShiftHappens by Jbrenman
  3. Meet Henry by Chereeemoore