The winners are announced of the 2010 edition of the Slideshare World’s Best Presentation Contest. Here are the #1, #2, and #3. Congratulations to each designer:
Some lessons we can learn from these presentations:
- Dare to use fonts beyond the standard ones (but make sure that it does not create problems)
- Select images with lots of white space
- Match image style, image color, font, font color on the same page
- Maintain a consistent graphical styles across slides
- Look at the people-flat-on-the-ground sequence in the smoke presentation to see how you can achieve cinematic effects in PowerPoint
Remember, these presentations are made for SlideShare/online viewing. In other contexts the style used would be somewhat different.
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PowerPoint is only part of a presentation. The presenter is the other part. SlideShare forces you to use only one part. There's no audio! You lose a major component of the presentation. So you load up your slides with what should have been spoken, forcing you to commit Mistake #1, "Too Much Info".
Typically, after a presentation, event sponsors and audience members want a copy of my slides. But my slides a nearly all images and graphics. What text there is is limited to just a few words. Without my narration, my slides are kind of meaningless. So instead of SlideShare, I use other tools, such as Camtasia, to make my presentation, with audio narration, into a movie.
Until SlideShare can accomodate audio - and can sync that with mouseclick animations - then it ... well ... sucks.
We accompany a Slideshare-version of a presentation with an added 'main message' per slide. That way you use both channels how they're best used.
BTW: I think you should never hand off your slides to your audience, as they are a companion to your spoken word. It is of no use. They're yours and shouldn't part from the main part of the presentation: you and your words.
We always make hand-outs to accompany the speaker and the (PowerPoint) presentation. The hand-outs give more in dept details, recommended reading, contact information, etc. All the things that shouldn't be in your preso to start with! :-)
You're right, my presentations I give in person are very different than the ones I upload to slideshare... you gotta design for your audience right?
You can actually attach audio to your slides in slideshare. I just prefer not to, I think people read much faster than I talk and also since most people view my work at the office its not always an option to listen with sound.
Also about fonts, I always export to PDF before uploading to slideshare, they have a very limited selection of fonts on their end and this usually solves and formatting issues.
Jesse