The Fuze Tell a Story Contest has winners!

Grand Prize ($5000)
The Grand Prize goes to Drunkenomics - The Story of Bar Stool Economics from slides2407. Drunkenomics = Drunken + Economics and its a great story about tax & tax cuts. slides2407 also has a behind-the-scenes account of how Drunkenomics happened. Check out The Monday That Never Saw The Night - Story of making of Drunkenomics.

Congratulations slides2407! This is well deserved.

Four Category Prizes (iPhone + $100 iTunes card)

Best Design: This goes to Super Cool Dudes from amv8192

Best Story Telling Ability: This goes to The Story of H from LubomirP

Best Use of Multimedia: This goes to White Shaka - Graphic Novel from AlanBrody

Most Popular: This goes to Let’s Talk Poverty from dcaron

Big thanks to our awesome judges: Ann Handle, Don Tapscott, Om Malik, Pete Cashmore & Tony Hsieh.

Thanks to the contest sponsors, Fuze Meeting . We had a great time working with you. If you have not already, go give the Fuze meeting software a quick try.

For presentations lovers everywhere, we have one more contest for you! This time its about storytelling. We are partnering with Fuze Meeting (who have an awesome online meeting product) to bring you this contest.

A lot of you have already been posting stories to SlideShare. This is an opportunity to get that story inside you onto slides. Tell your story in words and pictures. Add audio or video if you want. Just keep it within 30 slides. Your story could be about anything you care about. Yes, we mean anything. Your travels, a story of a friendship. Or the story of your brand or your product. Make us care, make us think.

And what’s the prize for storytelling. The Grand Prize is $5000! Yes, that’s correct. Imagine what you could do with $5000. We have four other prizes for Best Design, Best StoryTelling Ability, Most Popular and Best Use Of Multimedia. Everyone gets to vote for their favorite entries. Judges will choose the winners from the top voted.

Like before we have assembled a star cast of judges: Tony Hseih, Om Malik, Don Tapscott, Pete Cashmore, and Ann Handley.

Rules are similar to previous contests. You have 3 weeks to enter your presentation to the contest (May 26th to June 15th). Voting will go on till June 22nd. And results will be declared on June 29th.

Thanks to Fuze Meeting who we worked with to dream up this contest and who kindly sponsored the prizes! It has been fun working with Brook and Patrick . Go check out Fuze Meeting.

As usual, we have a presentation about the contest (below). Please help us get the word out. Embed the presentation, share it with your friends. Help us reach every corner of the world where people create presentations.

Chris Hulls‘ entry, “The Financial Crisis: A Historical Perspective” won our recently concluded Credit Crisis Contest. Chris’ entry was also his first presentation on SlideShare, so I’m sure all of us are a little curious about him. This short interview should help put Chris Hulls in perspective for us!

Tell us a little about yourself. Your background, where are you based, what you do for a living? Are you involved in the finance sector?

I finished school at Berkeley a couple years ago and am currently on deferral from Harvard Business School while working on a tech startup, Life360. My last job was a bit more fitting for this contest; I was doing investment banking at Goldman Sachs and was there when Paulson left to the treasury. I also worked just down the hall from Neel Kashkari, who is now running the big $700 billion bailout fund. I didn’t know him too well, but it’s amusing to me when I hear about the big Goldman conspiracies - Neel had only been there a few years and had just been promoted to VP (which is basically a mid-level manager at an investment bank). He didn’t even have an office yet and sat in the same cubicles as the interns.

Do you design a lot of presentations? When and how did you create the presentation for the contest?

No, not too often. I did a lot during college for business classes, but I’m actually having to de-learn what they taught me; professors liked to see complex charts and spreadsheets which they used as a proxy for your level of effort. I fell flat on my face using that approach in the real world. I did my entry for the contest after one of your investors, Dave McClure, wrote about it on his blog. I’ve been in touch with him for a couple months but the last time we met I showed him a presentation that was still a bit rough. The contest was a good chance to do a presentation on something I’m passionate about while also putting a polished set of slides out there for him or anyone else to see.
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Konstantyn Spasokukotskiy creator of  “The Crisis 101” won the second prize in SlideShare’s Credit Crisis Contest. Here’s a little more about him in his own words…

Tell us a little about yourself? Your background, where are you based, what you do for a living? Are you involved in the finance sector?

I use presentations in my daily life. I have extensive technical and business background. And I’ve got an entrepreneurial bug too.

This award helped me to test my today’s ideas and approaches for the future. That is, the recognition added a sustainable value for me. It made me a guy you’ve heard about - the benchmark indicator criterion. Thus it was instrumental in my quest for higher personal productivity. The special beauty of this particular contest was that the public is on the winning side too. Supposedly you like the info you’ve seen in my presentation, where else can you find such an unabridged win-win?

I live in Peachtree City, Georgia, USA. I am an entrepreneur by design. My current venture is a company, which brings artificial intelligence to vehicle parking. We automate parking business processes making it less expensive, complex but more reliable. You can find more info on my web site (see my SlideShare profile.)
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We apologize for the delay in announcing these results but they’re here finally! We’ve seen some amazing presentations from many participants, unfortunately we have to announce only 3 prize winners.

Our judges have spent some time looking through all the top entries and here are the ones they chose as best.

First Place

The best presentation in the contest and winner of an iPod Touch is “The Financial Crisis: An Historical Perspective” by Chris Hulls

What the judges had to say: “good, accurate, strong, good history”
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With the all uncertainty surrounding the current financial crisis, having different insights and perspectives would be valuable.

What better way than to ask the huge SlideShare community to tell us about it with a presentation?

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At SlideShare we don’t only see the World’s Best Presentation Contest as a competition but also a learning experience all around. After seeing some of the great presentations in the contest I think each of us is just that little bit better at creating our own.

In that light, we thought sharing some of the judges’ feedback on the other winners would be valuable to both the participants and others.
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