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What’s Better Than Microsoft PowerPoint?

5 Responses (Add) | Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 1:45am


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Did you ever know how most presentations suck? It’s bad enough that people doing them tend to suck, as well. It’s not their fault, though. Most of the presentation software is just not that good. A good presentation shows pictures, and don’t have much text. The worst ones to watch are where the speaker just reads every word from the slides! They drive me nuts! What do you use to create presentations? Tell me you aren’t using desktop software! Adobe has thrown their hat into the ring. They have a basic, online office suite and a new presentation software!

Acrobat Presentations is excellent. You have tons of options. Best of all, of course, is the ability using an online platform gives you to easily collaborate with others. When you create a presentation with desktop software, it’s very difficult to allow multiple people to work together on it. Using Presentations, it’s a simple process.

Presentations is a better way to create, edit, and share presentations with others online. Built on the Adobe Flash platform, Presentations looks and behaves like a desktop presentation application – but operates inside a web browser.

It’s free, and cross-platform. There’s no reason to not try it!

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E. Douglas Jensen

June 11th, 2009
at 6:45am

This claim that a good PowerPoint presentation should be all words is made by people who don’t give much in the way of highly technical presentations. Put your PowerPoint where your mouth is and show us a presentation of of a proof of a non-trivial mathematical theorem, or a presentation of a non-trivial C++ program.

Will Farris

June 12th, 2009
at 7:34am

Well, it really all depends on the context of how PowerPoint is being used. For lightweight use, pictures and such are fine and the speaker should basically just ad lib. But if I am teaching a class on configuring security parameters on a firewall, then the details MUST be shown up there and I MUST go over them verbatim and then some because of the importance of being exact and complete for it to be of value to the watchers in the crowd. For that PowerPoint is perfectly suited. What may be boring is the material itself (sometimes), or the presenter himself (usually). For that, PP can’t overcome, nor can any other presentation package.

Derek K. Miller

June 12th, 2009
at 10:32am

You might find my rants at penmachine.com/powerpoint informative. My general message is that a presentation should work without any slides, and that any visual accompaniment should be (a) a bonus, and (b) not duplicate what you’re saying. The worst thing to do is have a bunch of bullet points on screen and read them. The software you use is largely irrelevant to that.

bradleybradwell

June 12th, 2009
at 4:40pm

I remember a while ago that you talked about another alternative to Powerpoint…. I believe it was called 360 slide or something like that. I thought that was a fantastic alternative to other presentation software that’s available.

Antony

June 12th, 2009
at 11:26pm

I have PowerPoint on my Windows computer and keynote on my mac :)

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