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Beyond PowerPoint – NYLA Preconference

Nov 10th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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beyond powerpointThanks to the all the terrific folks who participated in the pre-conference workshop on presentation and data visualization at the NYLA Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs NY. Here are the slides I promised to posts. I’ll also post a list of resources that we discussed on my Courses & Resources pages. (more…)

Good PowerPoint Design

Aug 12th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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I came across this great presentation while gathering resources for a workshop on improving your presentations (getting beyond the dreaded slides full of bullet points, better use of graphics, data visualizations and so on.)

Good PowerPoint Design – for business presenters

View more presentations from Alexander Osterwalder

The core points (ironically bullet-pointed!) are:

  • Design from audience perspective! What do they want/need to know.
  • Don’t overwhelm. Stick to a core message, use stories
  • Simple visuals, effective graphics.
  • YOU have to deliver – engage, inform, entertain  & involve the audience.

(via: SlideShare Newsletter for August 2011)

Creating slidecasts on Slideshare just got easier!

Jun 9th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Slideshare is a great place to share your presentation slide shows. And a great place to find presentations by others to inspire and educate. Adding audio to your presentation can make your slides even more useful to others. Slideshare lets you add audio to your presentations to create a “slidecast”, but up till now, you had to find some other web server to host your audio file. A bit of a barrier for many people. Now you can host upload your audio track right to Slideshare! Much simpler.  Thank you Slideshare.

(via: Slideshare newsletter)

Example of a Slideshare slide show (alas, without audio)

Online Outreach & Marketing

Prezi for Presentations

Feb 13th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Prezi looks like an absolutely fascinating new presentation tool. It’s in beta testing and I don’t have an invite yet, so haven’t been able to play. (hint hint prezi – invite please??) But  Jason Rhode posted a  photo to flickr today and this blog post about it that intrigued me.  Take a look at his great demo presentation to find out what it’s all about. Much better than me trying to explain it!


photo by jrhode on flickr

SlideShare & YouTube

Jan 22nd, 2009
by pollyalida.
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SlideShare, the popular site for sharing slide presentations, now lets users embed YouTube videos in their presentations. Just upload your slideshow as usual. From the edit screen, there’s now an option for embedding up to 5 videos per presentation. Very easy to do. More info available on the SlideShare blog.

Here’s my very quick test.

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View more presentations or upload your own.

Great flickr images about our online world, media, life

Oct 15th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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About a year ago Helene Blowers tipped her readers to a great set of flickr images – Lynetter’s Interesting Snippets. Lynetter takes quotes about the online world, media and communications and finds great images to illustrate them. (Creative Commons licensed of course.) I love these images and quotes and have used quite a few of these in presentations.

And I was excited to discover another terrific set of images recently – Digital Bites by Will Lion.  I hope both Lynetter and Will Lion continue to add to these wonderful sets. Thank you both!

Whether you’re doing presentations or not, these slides make for interesting and thought provoking viewing.