Tweet Importance of Sharing Presentation Online

Presentations are an integral part of Corporate World as it connects everybody on-board with new ideas and it is one of the best mediums to display your ideas in a better way. Presentations are not just limited to Corporate or Business world but today most people make and share their presentations Online as sharing presentations online has a bundle of benefits. Here, I am sharing with you some of the benefits that give it a look.

Benefits of Sharing Presentations Online

• Open Presentations Hassle-Free: Now, by sharing presentation online you can open your presentations hassle-free by avoiding several presentation opening software and just sharing presentations on presentation submission websites like SharePresentation.

• Generating Leads: Online Presentations are one of the best ways of generating leads. Just target your niche audience and make the presentation Informative and share on online platforms which can help you in generating leads.

• Global Attention: When the word Online comes, means now you are working globally. By sharing your presentations online you will get global reach and you can attract customers globally.

• Privacy: Today, Data Privacy is one of the main things which we have to focus on. Sharing Presentation online also cause privacy issues. But with SharePresentation you can share your presentation in both Public and Private Ways hassle-free.

• Better SEO: Now, Presentations are not only to target your customers but presentations also helps in improving your website SEO. By sharing your content on different Presentation sharing website like SharePresentation it will benefit to your website Authority and better Google SERP (Search Engine Result Page) Ranking.

• Optimize Social Media: By making your presentations Informative you can also attract many users on Social Media and you can optimize your Social Media Platforms by sharing that informative data.

Tips to Optimize Online Presentations

• Use more Visuals and Graphics.
• Always enter the Image Source.
• Use more Graphs and Statistics to present Statistical Data.
• Make the Presentation Simple & Informative.
• Don’t use too many animations after every slide.
• Choose Template relevant to the data you are presenting.
• Don’t Overload slides present your information in 10 – 15 slides.
• Develop your own style of presenting the Information.

So, these are the several benefits of sharing presentations online. Also, do visit our website SharePresentation and share your presentations here. If you have any advice for our website then do comment. We will definitely look up to your advice.

Tweet Ways to Improve your Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills are very important as The content you are presenting to the Audience. Public speaking skills matter a lot in the audience engagement. We always say that Content is the King but before content, we have to develop good presenting skills to deliver that content. I am sharing with you certain ways by which you can upgrade not just only Public Speaking skills but also more confidence. So, just read out the following ways to improve your presentation skills: -

• Audience Interest: While making the presentation you have to research the target interest of the audience. Make the presentation to the point and more concentrate on the goals and targets the audience is looking for. Present the content by which you get more audience engagement.

• Structure of Presentation: You have to design a particular structure of the presentation you are delivering. Make sure you start with the brief information of the data you will present than the main body of the presentation which includes all the content and statistics of the presentation and then the conclusion.

• Storytelling: Storytelling is one of the best ways to get the audience's attention. You can explain your content by using the Storytelling method. Today, the attention span of the audience is very less. By Storytelling, you can explain the content very well and it has the power to convert the audience into leads.

• Statistics and Graphs: Now, try to explain the data more in statistical form. By this method, you can easily explain the data analysis, and also by graphs, the picture is clear as a mirror. So, do add statistics in your presentation, it also helps you to present the presentation in an easier way.

• Humour: Never present the presentation in a very serious mood. Present your presentation with some humour so that the audience didn’t get bored. Don’t try to crack jokes in the middle of the presentation just add humour in the content you are presenting.

• Create your own Content: Never copy the content of the presentation. You can never present a good presentation if you are just copying the content. Make your own content so that you can Be Yourself while presenting the presentation. If the content is yours then you know the stuff you are presenting and you also know how to present that stuff.

• Use Visuals and graphics: Try to add some Visuals and Graphics in your presentation if possible. As, by adding visuals your presentation looks more premium, and also, the audience gets involved in it.

• Practice and Improve: Now, you have to practice and find the mistakes you have done in the last presentation and remember that you do not repeat those mistakes.

So, these are some interesting ways in which you can improve your Presentation Skills. Also, sharing your presentations online is one of the best ways to spread education. So, do share presentations online at SharePresentation Website.

Tweet Is Bunkr going to be a PowerPoint killer?

Since the launch of PowerPoint, a lot has been done around PowerPoint and presentations. Be it online presentation creation, online presentation sharing or desktop plug-ins, there is lot of stuff going on to help people create high quality stunning presentations without the help of professionals.

TechCrunch recently projected Bunkr- an online presentation creation tool as a PowerPoint killer. Like any other presentation creation tools, Bunkr lets you create presentations online which can be exported as PPT.



Largely online presentation creation tools are nowhere near to what desktop presentation software's and plugins offer and same is the case with Bunkr. It offers nothing which is not being offered by Microsoft PowerPoint 2013, Office 365, PowToons and Google presentations. Bunkr's USP is in-built image, video and content search, but then again this feature is already in-built in MS PowerPoint 2013 and authorSTREAM Desktop plugin which also takes care of copyright attribution.

Now at a time when SlideRocket failed to tap the online presentation creation market and Microsoft too offering online presentation creation, it would be interesting to see how long Bunkr goes. Do you also think that Bunkr is going to be a PowerPoint killer?
 

Tweet Google adds animations and transitions to presentations

Google today released an upgraded version of Google presentations. Google presentations now support most of the basic animation effects like fly, appear, zoom, spin  in addition to slide transitions. With this release Google has narrowed down the feature gap between Google presentations and other online or desktop presentation applications.

What's new in Google presentations?
Google has added more than 50 new features including real-time collaboration:

• Transitions to move between slides with simple fades or spicier 3D effects
• Animations to add emphasis or to make your slides more playful
• New themes to create beautiful presentations with distinct visual styles
• Drawings to build new designs, layouts, and flowcharts within a presentation
• Rich tables with merged cells and more options for adding style to your data

Google presentations are now as good as Microsoft PowerPoint 
Since most of the people use just the basic animation effects like fly,appear, disappear this release will certainly eat the market share of other online presentation creation tools and my be PowerPoint too. Google presentations now has a option to download the presentations as PPTX. A presentation created with Google presentation work just fine in Microsoft PowerPoint along with animation effects.

The day, Google adds option to add audio and record narrations, the competition for Microsoft PowerPoint will really be tough considering the free versus paid scenario.

How to enable new presentation features?
Most probably you will see an alert to enable new presentation on Google docs home page but if you don't see that, you can enable it from Documents and settings.

• Click the setting icon(Gear icon on top right). 
• Select "Documents and Settings".
• Click Editing tab.
• Tic the check-box "Create new presentations using the latest version of the presentation editor" and save.

Newly added features will only work for new presentations you create.

A presentation created with Google presentations

Tweet How to share presentations on LinkedIn?

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There are two ways to share your presentations on Linkedin; 1) Using SlideShare 2) Google Presentations. In order to share presentations either via SlideShare or Google presentations you need to install SlideShare or Google presentations application. To add a presentation  to your Linkedin profile, follow the steps below:

1. First sign in to your Linkedin account
2. Either go to' Edit My Profile' and add an application from there or click 'Add an
    Application' box on the right.
3. In the Applications section, click Add an
    Application and select Google or Slideshare
    Presentation.

You need to have a SlideShare or Google account to use respective applications. Login to your SlideShare/Google account to link your SlideShare/Google account with your Linkedin profile.These Linkedin applications not only let you share your presentations with your connections but also let you see what people in your network are sharing, viewing and commenting.

Google presentations Linkedin App
Though you can upload and share a new presentation from your desktop or share an existing presentation in your Google account  yet you still have to go to Google docs to create a new presentations.




SlideShare Linkedin App
Slideshare app lets you share all presentations from your Linkedin account or upload and share new presentations from within Linkedin. SlideShare has recently released Linkedin share button as well which means now you can share any SlideShare presentation on LinkedIn with a press of button.

Tweet Create cool presentations with VisualBee

VisualBee is a Microsoft PowerPoint plugin (add-in) which helps you create awesome presentations with cool graphics and stunning templates with much ease and in less time.The plugin not only lets you select style and templates for free but also smart enough to analyze the text of slides and automatically enhances it with relevant graphics. The biggest advantage is that you need not to go outside of PowerPoint software to search for pictures, templates etc.

Once you are done with your presentation, just click the VisualBee addin in PowerPoint ribbon and click 'Enhance Presentation'. After this step, "Enhance presentation' wizard will just take few seconds to enhance your presentation. See demo below for details:

Though visualBee takes care of most of the things a  presenter would need, yet of late audio and video has also become an integral part of the presentations. As of now, VisualBee has no video or audio library available. There is a workaround for this problem too. For image and video search you can use authorSTREAM desktop- a free add-in for PowerPoint. authorSTREAM desktop lets you search and insert images from Bing and videos from YouTube from within the PowerPoint.

VisualBee do have a premium plan which allows users access to wide range of exclusive templates and graphics. Download VisualBee here and start creating great content.

Tweet Zoom your presentations with pptPlex

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Microsoft's lab product pptPlex is the coolest PowerPoint add-in which lets you give presentations in a quite astonishing way. pptPlex with zoom in and zoom out effects is quite similar to Prezi which offers similar functionality online.

pptPlex uses Plex technology to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation. You can arrange all slides on a stunning canvas and can zoom in or zoom out slides during presentation besides navigating in a non-linear fashion. You need not to go slide by slide, just double click any slide thumb on the canvas and slide will appear with smooth zoom effect.

pptPlex also lets you add live content from other Office documents(Word, excel) in your PowerPoint presentations. Live content means if you have added some excel sheet and source data gets changed, your presentation will always have the updated data as will read the data from excel sheet itself.




You can download pptPlex from Microsoft labs. You would also require to download and install XPS or Save as PDF add-in in order to use pptPlex on PowerPoint 2007.

pptPlex is quite easy to use and for sure it will add some seasoning to the way you give presentations.

Tweet Create PowerPoint presentations which keep audience attentive and awake

An effective PowerPoint presentation can leave long lasting impact on audience. A PowerPoint can do more than what a blog post or document can.

Don't just fill your presentation with tons of text, bullets, images and annoying animations. Your PowerPoint should be a balanced combination of text, images and animation effects. PowerPoint presentation can also have narrations or background music if you intend to put it on some online presentation sharing website. A little planning, great script, cool design and sincere hard work will certainly pay you. There is such a abundance of bad presentation that PowerPoint expert and author Ellen Finkelstein has to start a campaign named " death by PowerPoint".

Image by kurafire via Flickr

Here are few resources which you should refer to if you really want your audience to pay attention to what you want to convey:

Microsoft

Guy Kawasaki's 10-20-30 rule

wikiHow

Concordia University

Tweet Free PowerPoint templates for Holidays

Christmas and new year are around the corner. This is the time when we share our love, emotions and warm greetings with our near and dears. For PowerPoint users this is the time to carve their deep emotions and feeling on a PowerPoint and share it with their loved ones.

To create a stunning PowerPoint presentation, an appealing template is a prerequisite. Those who are well versed with PowerPoint software, create these templates themselves. Those who are not that skilled to create a terrific PowerPoint template or background themselves need not to despair. There are numerous websites and blogs who offer free PowerPoint templates for Christmas and New year.

You can download these free templates; add music, animations and your very own PowerPoint greeting will be ready in no time. Here are few good websites from where you can download free PowerPoint templates for Christmas, New Year and Holidays:

Microsoft Website
Indezine
Brainy Betty
Presentation Magazine: Presentation magazine also let you create custom image backgrounds using card maker which you can use as a template in PowerPoint:
Christianppt

Tweet SlideShare "Holiday Spirit Contest 2009"

PowerPoint and Document sharing website, Slideshare has announced "Holiday Spirit Contest 2009". Contest has started from November 27th and will last till 2nd January, 2010.

The Prize:

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1. 1st Prize: Amazon Gift Certificate worth $250
2. 2nd Prize: Amazon Gift Certificate worth $150
3. 3rd Prize: Amazon Gift Certificate worth $100

The Holiday Spirit Contest 2009

View more documents from SlideShare Help.

How to Enter the Contest?

* To participate in the The Holiday Spirit Contest 2009, your presentation should have been uploaded to SlideShare after Friday, 27th November 2009, 00:01 AM PST and entered into the contest by Saturday, January 2nd 2010, 11:59 PM PST. (The decision of SlideShare regarding eligibility of contest presentations will be final and binding for all)

* To enter, create a SlideShare account (or login if you already have an account) and add your presentation to the contest. You can enter your presentation in two ways:

1. Upload your presentation to SlideShare (single or bulk upload). Check
the "Enter Contest" checkbox and select "The Holiday Spirit Contest 2009".

2. Alternatively, upload the presentation as usual. Later, you can enter
the contest by going to the presentation's "Edit" page.

Read more at contest Page here.

Tweet Insert videos in PowerPoint using authorSTREAM desktop

Sharing PowerPoint presentations having videos has always been a big issue with normal PowerPoint users. People always wonder why and how video or movie file inserted in PowerPoint which plays well on their computer disappears when they run slide show on their office system or any other computer.

Most of the PowerPoint users are unaware of the fact that videos are always linked in PowerPoint slides and will not play on the system other than where the linked file resides. Few technical users keep PowerPoint file and video in same folder and share the zip file so that video plays irrespective of where you run Slide show.

For those who don't want to share bulky zip files or who don't know technical details related to video insertion in PowerPoint, authorSTREAM has come up with a promising solution. authorSTREAM desktop (a free PowerPoint plug-in from authorSTREAM) which lets you insert YouTube videos, can now take care of videos inserted in PowerPoint slides. You just need to upload PowerPoint presentation having linked audio or video using authorSTREAM Desktop and its inbuilt mechanism will take care of rest.

Presentation output on authorSTREAM will play inserted videos as they play in PowerPoint slide show on your machine and you only need to share authorSTREAM presentation link with your friends and family. So now besides inserting YouTube videos, you can insert videos from your desktop in your PowerPoint slides.

Funny Videos

See more presentations by aSGuest31176 | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations

More details at authorSTREAM blog.

Tweet Insert royalty free images in PowerPoint using new PowerPoint add-in from fotolia

Images and video marketplace, Fotolia has released FREE Add-in for PowerPoint 2007 & Word 2007. With Fotolia PowerPoint add-in you can instantly add high-resolution photos, vectors, and illustrations using your free Fotolia account without leaving PowerPoint. See video below on how to use Fotolia Add-in.




You can download Fotolia Add-in for PowerPoint 2007 here.

Add-ins like authorSTREAM desktop which lets you insert YouTube videos and images from Bing, SlideFinder which lets you search the web for presentations and slides and Fotolia ribbon are going to give a new direction to creation of content and media rich presentations.

Tweet Healthcare Napkins won SlideShare's contest

Slideshare has announced results of World's best Presentation contest'09. Presentation Healthcare Napkins All has won the first prize.

Healthcare Napkins All

View more documents from Dan Roam.

See complete results at SlideShare.

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Tweet Huge discount for educators and students from authorSTREAM

Online PowerPoint sharing website authorSTREAM is offering 90% discount on authorSTREAM's Premium Pro service for teachers and students. authorSTREAM premium pro will let you upload up to 500 presentation as private, unlimited PowerPoint to video conversion, presentation stats etc. You can see complete feature list here.



Teachers and students can apply with their official(school/college/university) email address and get Pro membership for $24.95(yearly), which otherwise costs $300 (yearly). Students and teachers will continue to renew their premium pro membership for $24.95 every year until 2014! Sounds a good deal :).

This special education discount offer expires on 30th September, 2009.

Tweet Slideshare announces World's Best Presentation Contest'09

Presentation and document sharing website Slideshare has announced World's Best Presentation Contest'09 in collaboration with Adobe Acrobat.

SlideShare World's Best Presentation Contest 2009

View more documents from Amit Ranjan.

To increase presence on social networks, Slideshare has a new rule this year. To choose the finalists, Slideshare will look at tweets and shares on social networks. Hashtag for the contest is #bestpreso.


Prizes


World's Best Presentation Contest

1. Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch worth $1199
2. Amazon Kindle DX worth $489
3. Apple iPhone 3G S worth $199

And 5 Category Prizes: Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro software

Special Prizes for Best Acrobat 9 Presentation Details

Grand Prize: HP TouchSmart® laptop and Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro software
Runner-up: Adobe® Photoshop® CS4

Judges

Judges are Julie Hansen, COO of Business Insider, Scott Belsky, founder & CEO of Behance, Harry McCracken editor of Technologizer , Guy Kawasaki, David Armano,Padmasree Warrior.

For details visit contest page.

Tweet PowerPoint presentations on Michael Jackson

Such was the impact of Michael Jackson's sudden death that Google stopped responding for a while. Twitter has to remove 'Trending Topics'. Every website, blog, TV channel was just talking about MJ.

PowerPoint creators also paid tribute to MJ in their own style by creating some great presentations. Few presentations embedded below will let you have glimpse of MJ's life.

Michael Jackson Life and Times

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by islides | Upload your own presentation

Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) – YOU are my life

View more documents from Krudang Krangdu.

Tweet Embedding or linking audio files in PowerPoint

Do you always wonder why audio inserted in your PowerPoint presentation disappear when you play presentation on a computer other than the one where it was created? Do you fail to understand why online PowerPoint sharing websites like authorSTREAM, slideboom or slideshare (BTW they don't support audio inserted in PowerPoint file) fail to play audio inserted in your Presentation?

Answer to these questions lie in the way audio was inserted in PowerPoint. There are two methods of inserting audio files in PowerPoint presentations. Either you can embed audio in PowerPoint itself or link the audio file.

As per Microsoft

"Main differences between embedded (embedded object: Information (object) contained in a source file and inserted into a destination file. Once embedded, the object becomes part of the destination file. Changes you make to the embedded object are reflected in the destination file.) sounds (objects) (object: A table, chart, graphic, equation, or other form of information. Objects created in one application, for example spreadsheets, and linked or embedded in another application are OLE objects.) and linked (linked object: An object that is created in a source file and inserted into a destination file, while maintaining a connection between the two files. The linked object in the destination file can be updated when the source file is updated.) sounds are where they are stored and how you update them after you put them in your presentation. Embedded files are stored within the presentation, and linked files are stored outside the presentation."

In case of linked files, PowerPoint always play audio from the linked location of file( say "c:\my Documents\test.wmv"). When you play PowerPoint file having linked audio on some other machine, PowerPoint file tries to locate and play audio file from linked path i.e. "c:\my Documents\test.wmv". As there is no such audio file at the path specified on new machine so audio fails to play. Embedded audio file is contained in PowerPoint itself so audio will play on online presentation sharing websites or on other computers.


Audio file of size more than 50 MB will always be linked. You may have to set audio file size from advance options so that audio file below 50 MB is always embedded. Follow steps below:






See videos on how to insert audio in PowerPoint file.









You can visit links below to understand difference between linked and embedded audio:


Office 2003

https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA010348231033.aspx

office 2007

https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA012303071033.aspx

Tweet Is online presentation creation better than Microsoft PowerPoint?

In the last few years a number of products have been launched to create presentations online. Google presentations, 280Slides, Slide Rocket, Zoho Show and Preezo to name but a few. Latest in the list is Adobe Acrobat Presentations. With so many products in the market, it's difficult to decide which one you should use? Chris Pirillo has something to say on "What's better than Microsoft PowerPoint?"

Tweet Add audio to your PowerPoint file

Addition of audio or video to your PowerPoint can have amazing effect on your target audience. Here are few embeds demonstrating 'how to add narration?' to your PowerPoint.

Help with narrations

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by TechGuy | Upload your own presentation

Adding Audio Narration to PowerPoint

View more OpenOffice presentations from delhionlineeducation

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Tweet Replace PowerPoint feature from authorSTREAM

authorSTREAM, the online PowerPoint presentation sharing platform today released a new feature called 'Replace PowerPoint. Now you can replace your current PowerPoint file with a new one. Big relief to those who want to replace few slides of presentation or complete presentation altogether due to some typo or outdated information. Feature comes in handy when you have embedded presentation on your website or blog. As soon as your re uploaded presentation gets converted, embeds will start showing new content or slides.

You just need to click the ‘Replace PowerPoint’ option provided under Actions on Dashboard or on ‘Your Presentations’ and click on the link marked ‘Replace PowerPoint’ available beside the presentation thumbnail and upload the updated presentation. Best part is that during the conversion process your presentation will work fine on authorSTREAM or in embeds. Also comments, views, tags, favorites, likes, presentation URL etc will remain same. As your presentation may have new slides,content so you need to recreate video of your presentation or send it to YouTube again after successful replacement so that you can reach wide range of audience.

See more details at authorSTREAM blog.