“Back of the Napkin” style of presentation design
Aug 14, 12:16 am PST
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).
Ten ESSENTIAL Slideshare Presentations for Marketers
Feb 19, 12:12 am PST
Check out this compilation of 10 awesome SlideShare presentations for marketing folks. This has been published on DPDialogue, an Australian marketing blog.. go here to check out the blogpost.
Incidentally the post starts with this somewhat funny narrative of what things were like in presentation rooms way back in the 1960s-70s before the PC (and Powerpoint era)… Here’s an excerpt
” The presenter would have prepared for weeks; researched diligently and practiced five times the night before, just to make sure everything went according to plan. No stone would have been left unturned. No ‘t’ would have been un-crossed. No ‘i’ left un-dotted.
Presentation day would have arrived. Seats would have been arranged. A screen erected at the front. The presenter would have turned up, ready to begin; a glass of water beside the lecturn; a hot cup of instant coffee on standby.
Marker pens would have been in hand, ready to highlight the important points; a few carefully-practised hand shadow animals would have lurking in the wings, ready to storm the virtual stage should the crowd require some half-time entertainment. A strange bunch of clear plastic sheets would have been piled neatly on the table, but they would have drawn negligible attention, because they were dwarfed by the strangest looking lamp the admin assistant had ever seen. The year was 1957.
“What’s that?” She would have asked (excuse my misogyny, I’ve been watching too much Mad Men).
“It’s an overhead projector,” the presenter would have announced proudly. “It’s the latest in presentation technology.”
The admin assistant would have nodded.
“Is there anything I can get you then before you begin, Mr Presenter?” She would have asked
“Yes,” Mr Presenter would have said. “I need a power point?”
“Power point?” She would have asked, a puzzled look on her face. “Well, there is one, but it’s way over there in the back of the room. If you want people to see your presentation I’ll need to get you an extension cord.”
Powerpoint, of course, the Microsoft version, spelled the end of the overhead projector back in the early nineties.
Slideshare.com, has spelled the end of the extension cord.
Olympics on SlideShare!
Aug 7, 06:13 pm PST
Its 080808 (Aug 8th, 2008) - its the first day of the Olympics! I remember watching the Olympics on TV for hours as a child. Its one of the few world events that gets millions of people excited. This time, I will be watching TV of course, but I am also watching the Olympics on SlideShare. Its exciting how many SlideShare users are sharing slides about the Olympics. If you have pictures to share, please upload them to SlideShare (here is a handy guide on how to make a pictue slideshow in under a minute). Remember to add it to this group about the Beijing Olympics.
If you are in China for the Olympics, drop in the comments. And if you are not lucky enough to be in China, then enjoy vicariously through this slideshow below!
VCWear pitchdeck on SlideShare
Feb 25, 12:48 am PST
The hilarious vcwear site has been mentioned all over the blogosphere in the last few days. It’s (humorous) T-Shirts for VCs. The T-shirts cost $100, or you can buy the whole company for a mere $100,000 (an “impulse buy”, according the the site ;->).
Anyway, their pitch deck has been uploaded to SlideShare. It’s mighty funny (at least to VCs and the people who interact with them). Check it out:
City slides: Around the world with SlideShare members
Feb 21, 06:16 am PST
There are SlideShare members from all over the world - in Sudan, in Hawaii, in Sydney and Helsinki. We have been noticing how many people upload slides about their cities and countries. Generally, its a bunch of pictures and some commentary. I love watching such slideshows. Many are about places I have never been, but would really like to go. Some of them are embedded below. I hope you enjoy them as well.
Of course, we have slideshows about London!
And how we have London, and not have Paris.
Some city slides about Jaisalmer, golden city in the north western part of India.
These slides were shared with love from Romania
And here is a slideshow about Berlin
Go to this group to check out more. And if you have a city slideshow, please do share it in the City and Country Slides group on SlideShare!
How not to use PowerPoint!
Dec 6, 05:22 pm PST
This is hilarious! If you know of other videos, articles making fun of PowerPoint usage, add as a comment.
Slideshare collector series: awesome bunch of Facebook presentations
Oct 8, 05:07 am PST
There is now an awesome collection of Facebook presentations on Slideshare! These started popping up on the radars of our editorial team a couple of months back, but now it has grown into a steady tide. Everyday a handful of these get uploaded. And they are as good as it can get- presentations from developers, librarians, investors, research agencies, startups et al.
We created a Facebook group and you can join it here. It contains presentations from The Startup project, Forrester, Valleywag, dmc500hats etc.
You can also join the Slideshare facebook application here.
