Gaming, films, music and, of course, tech — yep, it’s that time of the year again when all things creative converge at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin. Thousands of speakers have been presenting on topics ranging from creating a company people love to social storytelling, managing social media for nonprofits and Etsy’s business strategy and success. For those still at the conference, which ends March 13, there are plenty of guides and recaps. What are the hot topics people are discussing and buzzing about? Below are a few favorites shared on SlideShare. For more SXSW 2013 presentations, check out… Read more »
Posts Categorized: On Presentations
Top 10 most popular SlideShare blog posts of 2012
With views totaling in the hundreds of thousands, these are the most popular blog posts from last year. If you look closely, you’ll notice a trend. It is clear from the results that you, our SlideShare community, are actively invested in becoming stronger presenters, creating the best content possible, and becoming more influential in your use of SlideShare. These articles are full of tips and best practices to do exactly that. Here are your favorite blog posts from 2012: 1. 5 Tips for Presenting to Executives – Bruce Gabrielle 2. Tara Hunt: 3 ways SlideShare helped me grow as a… Read more »
Haiku Deck + Slideshare = The Fast Track to Slide Stardom
Slidesharers, you should know that you have totally inspired us. Every time we visit, we discover amazing storytellers and fresh new ways to communicate. We’re often amazed by the beautifully designed decks we find as we browse the site. We also know that many mere mortals struggle to make their stories look as good as those professionally designed ones. So we set out to make a tool that would take the design hocus-pocus out of the process. We wanted to offer a simple, fun way for anybody to create flawlessly beautiful presentations. The result is Haiku Deck, and we’d like… Read more »
Sharing presentations increases engagement
Here at SlideShare, we can clearly see the influence that popular presentations have on the greater SlideShare audience to further explore ideas and concepts. Taking an existing presentation to the next level, either creatively or intellectually, inspires interaction and gives new momentum to the original content. Bruce Gabrielle recently uploaded this presentation which he embedded in his very popular blog post, 5 Tips For Presenting to Executives. Bruce’s slideshow caught the attention of Dirk Hannemann of Berlin, Germany who then built upon the presentation’s salient points and created a video of his own. Thankfully, the days of closely guarded content… Read more »
The eBook is the Stud in Your Content Marketing Stable
Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs collaborate annually to produce a heap of research findings they call “B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends.” This year’s report just came out. (Presented on SlideShare here.) In a section that probes respondents about what they perceive to be their biggest challenges, the top three results were: (1) producing enough content (2) producing content that engages, and (3) lack of budget. Repurposing quality content helps overcome all these challenges. If you don’t repurpose your best content, it’s time to start. And if you merely dabble in the practice, you’d be wise to step… Read more »
Kinvey presentation shows the use of mobile during Sandy, one story at a time
Last week, the east cost of the United States experienced the worst storm in its recorded history. As Superstorm Sandy made landfall in one of the world’s most populated areas, a new kind of communication took place. In a slidedeck (embedded below) and accompanying blog post, the team at Kinvey paint a picture of what Kinvey VP of Marketing Joe Chernov calls “the first disaster of the mobile era.” When the mobile infrastructure didn’t go down, Superstorm Sandy became the first major storm to have a mobile platform for communication. Joe, along with researcher Lauren Pedigo and designer Jake McKibben… Read more »
Before and after: Facebook 2004 media kit redesign
Designers and creatives have been examining and building upon the work of their predecessors for hundreds of years. By deconstructing creative works, then applying new techniques and best practices, designers continue to evolve and enrich the way we experience information. Brazilian presentation design and marketing agency MonkeyBusiness took on the original 2004 Facebook Media Kit as an exercise in redesign. The media kit was originally created by Eduardo Saverin, one of Facebook’s four co-founders. He developed it in 2004, while still an economics student at Harvard. Notice how MonkeyBusiness uses color to make the hand-drawn edits pop out from the… Read more »
5 Tips for Presenting to Executives
Presenting to your peers is (relatively) easy. The stakes aren’t high. If you screw up, they’ll usually let it slip. But executives are different. Executives get things done through delegating to other people. So, they are always looking for who they can trust – and who they can’t. Make a good impression and the exec is likely to give you more responsibility in the future. Make a bad impression and you earn a place on their “do-not-trust” list. Either way, it affects your career. Executives are a special audience for presentations. And the stakes are high. Here are FIVE TIPS… Read more »