The ongoing World’s Best Presentation Contest 2009 has category prizes as well. One of the categories is “About Me” and we noticed a bunch of interesting entries here. Some that tickled our editorial team are embedded below.

Something to note- each of these entries is interesting for a different reason…

1) This is a social media resume. If you are wondering, what that is supposed to mean, take a look..

2) This is a sequel to a presentation that won a nomination in the WBPC 2008 last year. The story continues here. If you want to see the first part to this, go here.

The World’s Best Presentation Contest 2009 is hotting up. Its been a couple of weeks since this went live and we have 1547 entries from 1021 participants and 3432 votes have been cast (as on 18th August 5:00 AM PST). Its great to see this kind of enthusiasm in the community.

Off course not all the entries are top notch (thats expected). But one entry that did catch our attention for its humorous overtone is embedded below. This is a take on what people should do to win the SlideShare contest. Thanks avalok for this cool slideshow. This had the slideshare team in splits as well…

Just a reminder- this year, besides the votes polled, we are also looking at the social media receptivity for each contest entry - no of tweets, shares etc. So you’ll need to keep the score ticking on that front as well.

We’d like to point out this creative style of presentation design. It’s called the “back of the napkin” and comes from Dan Roam, who is a SlideShare user, and an accomplished author & visual thinker. Check out Dan’s slideshare profile here. Dan has actually uploaded a 4 part series of “back of the napkin” presos on the American Healthcare System (see the 4 part playlist shared below using the presentation pack).

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The Applicant blog has a great post listing 7 SlideShare presentations for job seekers. Head here to check out the post…

HubSpotTV (from HubSpot- the leading Internet Marketing company) has a podcast interview with Marta Kagan. Marta is a long time SlideShare user and her presentation on Social media is a viral hit. She published the original presentation about a year back (it has a somewhat provocative title “What the … is Social Media?”) and this continues to evoke heated debate/comments besides lots of views, embeds, downloads etc. Two weeks back, Marta published its annual sequel titled “What the … is Social Media? One year later)… this presentation is flying as well.

Here is the video from the HubSpot blog

The discussion also focuses on using SlideShare as a marketing platform. Thanks HubSpot & Marta for this.

Mike Bogle who is an Educational Technologist at the University of New South Wales and writes the TechTickerblog has created an excellent video tutorial about slidecasting. The five minute tutorial gives you a step by step procedure for creating a slidecast. The blogpost is here.

Check out the video

Thanks Mike.. we’ll add the tutorial to our slidecasting help section.

Here’s a quick update on the Fuze Tell A Story Contest. The entry submission date (19th June) is over, so no more entries… they are frozen. The voting will continue as scheduled till the 22nd of June. Just three more days for you to vote for your favorite presentations.

To see contest entries and vote, go here.

We’ve had a huge response so far - app 2500 presentations from across the world have been entered into the contest, with close to 10000 overall votes already. The votes count is likely to rise significantly in the next 3 days… stay tuned.

If you are participating in the contest, ask your friend, family, colleagues etc to vote… you might just end up winning the top prize of 5000$.

Big thanks to the contest sponsors Fuze Meeting.

You might have already caught these on TechCrunch (in separate back to back articles). We’re sharing both these decks together for those who missed it.

The first of these decks is titled VC Non Admissions. The deck was adapted from a thread on ExpertCEO contributed by a range of CEOs and VCs about the top twelve things you’d never hear a VC say.

The reply came fast. And it was titled Founders Non Admission.

Founder Non-Admissions

View more OpenOffice presentations from Chris Yeh.

All for friendly, tongue-in-cheek banter.