World’s Best Presentation Contest
Mar 20, 11:39 am PST
I am excited to tell you that we just launched the first contest on SlideShare. We always had a SlideShare contest in the back of our minds, but the idea for this one was thought of by Guy Kawasaki after I met him at a conference (and his company Garage Technology Ventures is sponsoring the contest). After that, we met and fleshed out how the contest would work. We wanted to involve SlideShare users in the voting process so we built in the facility for voting thumbs up and down. So do go and vote and let the world and judges know what you think :-> Judges will be looking at the top voted decks to decide on the best.
The judges are literally a who’s who from the world of presentations and communication. Guy Kawasaki is of course well known for his presentations and his 10/20/30 rule. He blogged about the contest here.
Bert Decker is a well known communications expert. You might have heard his commentary on Presidential debates on television. He blogged about the contest here.
And who does not know Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen. I visit his site everytime I want to flesh out some ideas about presentations.
Finally, Jerry Weissman is one of the world’s top presentation coaches and has coached many CEOs and top management from well known companies.
If you have a killer slide deck, do enter it into the contest (in fact, enter upto five) and get it reviewed by these luminaries of presentation field. You will find contest entries here and can learn more about the rules here.
If you enter, you have a chance to win the Best Presentations prizes (an Alienware latop with Vista, or XBoxes) that were kindly sponsored by Microsoft.
We will post weekly updates about the contest and who is winning here. Now, go add your entry in! (It was just pointed out to me that I am not allowed to enter the contest! I was just testing, but let me go remove my presentation now :->).
Here’s a screenshot of the hompage announcer
Mar 20, 2:40 pm
Why such few countries for a world contest?
United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India
Mar 20, 3:00 pm
Ya,
We don’t like that as well, but we really are bound by contest rules in respective countries. Have to be on the right side of what the lawyers tell us.
Apr 19, 1:48 am
i hope you guys check for fraud
Apr 21, 3:17 am
All good things come to end for them to give a fresh new start all over again. The first ever World’s Best Presentation Contest is ending soon. The contest is still wide open and one can witness the best presentations from all over the world. The best Creative minds are competing against each other for this prestigious award.
The judges will announce there results later, please have a look at my personal top 5 presentations. I am sure the winner is one of them.
Shift Happens – Jbrenman
http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834/
Originally designed by Karl Fisch, the same presentation was reworked by one of the brilliant minds know as Jbrenman. He has done a terrific work; the slides are good, attractive & create people to glue to the same. He is my no1 contender.
Sourceworth – Abhishekshah
http://www.slideshare.net/abhishekshah/sourceworth-38610/
First of all I would like to give this gentleman 100/100 for being original & doing his own thing. This presentation is really beautiful & he deserves to win. The slides are neat and attractive and the substance inside is extremely powerful. Sourceworth, the name itself is beautiful and I am sure that this man is gonna go places.
Orange Effects – Abhishekshah
http://www.slideshare.net/abhishekshah/orange-effects
Another colorful display of ideas by Abhishekshah. A fine piece of Art, Orange Effects is an Online Branding company which Abhishek wants to start; he is looking for venture funding. There are only few slides which are published on the Slide Share. I wish him good luck. This presentation is different, vibrant and energetic. Once again all the slides are Original & done by himself.
Zeus Jones at Web 2.0 Expo - Zeusjones
http://www.slideshare.net/zeusjones/zeus-jones-at-web-20-expo
The future of Marketing is here and thanks to Zenusjones for sharing that. This group of five have showcase there presentation which is extremely fine.
Panipuri - an Introduction to perfection in food design. - thakkar
http://www.slideshare.net/thakkar/panipuri-an-introduction-to-perfection-in-food-design/
I have seen this presentation about a year back when one of my Indian colleague forwarded this one to me. Thakkar has not done any changes in the presentation and just uploaded the same. Full marks for cheating but praises for putting the right one. This is one of my top five but I am not sure if this will win.
In the end, My winner has to be either of the two gentlemen
Jbrenman or Abhishekshah
Who is your choice?