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SlideShare – The YouTube of PowerPoint

Have you ever heard of SlideShare.net? Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, called it the YouTube of PowerPoint. People would like to view, upload and share views and comment of PowerPoint and PDF, just like they do on YouTube.

PowerPoint is a good way to explain your new ideas, you can visualize the concept easily slides by slides. You can easily share your wisdom worldwide on SlideShare, and you can also find some fabulous stories on SlideShare.net. Many of the most views and hot downloaded slides are innovative.

Sharing your own work to over 25 million monthly visitors

Sharing your masterpiece on SlideShare is just like uploading a clip on YouTube. People would leave a comment, pick your slides as favorite, and you can even embed your slides to the blogs and websites.

How to get started? Just sign up and then you can upload many dozens of supported formats, like PDF, PPT, docs.

No one would be interested in a boring slide, so innovation, creativity and brilliance are important. Many PowerPoint tutorials teach you to make your PowerPoint simple and clear, but not on SlideShare.net. Ideas, Images, background are extremely essential. You can design your slide like a magazine. A colorful or meaningful slide will gain the attention of the visitors.

There are some rules you should know about.

1. Idea – no matter what, idea is the most important factors to a good slide. SlideShare users are highly educated, more that 62% hold a college degree and 19% have a Masters or PhD. And over 50% are managers, directors and other business decision makers. If you idea is not brilliant, it won’t be popular.

2. Text – make it big and keep it simple. If you want to public your novel, SlideShare will not be a good place. It is more about visualization of your mind, idea or concept. So sometimes just keywords would be enough. But since not everyone would switch to full screen mode to view your slide. Making the font big is important. Of course, some special and interesting font will make your slide more attractive.

3. Photo – choose the best one to explain your subject. The best is, the visitors can understand what you are talking about at the first glance of your picture. Or the picture is tightly related to your point. Of course, you can find a lot of pictures from the Internet.

4. The first page – the first page of your slides is extremely important. When visitors browse SlideShare.net. The only information they can know about is the thumbnail of your first page and the title of your slide. The first page is the cover, so, remember to decorate your first page and optimize your title.

Follow the rules above, you can also make a popular slideshow. You can also share your slides on LinkedIn with the app. Just log in your account, go to profile, then click ‘add application’, then you can share your slides with your LinkedIn connections.

Also, you can get many inspirations from others

What can you benefit from SlideShare.net, a huge resource of excellent PowerPoint and PDF files? If you are going to present, maybe to your customers, or your students, or maybe your new plan to your boss, you need to prepare a good PowerPoint. A good PowerPoint is a good way to support a speech.

There are many categories on SlideShare, across finance, health, design, business and many templates. There must be some slides will inspire you and you can use the public resources directly, for example, beautiful template or some data from the excellent files. Many files are saved as PDF, you can easily convert PDF to PowerPoint with AnyBizSoft, then insert into your own presentation. It is very convenient for you to reuse the content or get the template from SlideShare. And if you found some PDF files from famous research institution, just convert them to PowerPoint and quote from them directly, that will make your presentation more convincing.

So, SlideShare.net is not only a platform that you can share your idea, creativity, but also a database of PowerPoint material.

3 Secret PPT Design Rules To Killer PowerPoint Presentations

In this post, you will learn simple PPT design rules to help you building powerful presentations people will care about.

This PowerPoint tutorial will introduce three generic rules that will get you on the way to design professional PowerPoint templates and creative presentations! These rules are an introduction, and they are the key to successful PowerPoint presentation design. Let’s get started!

1. Size

Your PowerPoint slides are usually sized 10 inches (width) * 7.5 inches (height). Resize them 12*7.5. Open a PowerPoint document, go to Design > Page Setup. With presentation slides of 12 inches width, or more, you will have more freedom and the ability to better organize the content of the slide.

2. Typography

Fonts can just make or break your PPT presentation.

I recommend you to pick ONE font for all your content slides. The default font I use myself is Calibri, it’s modern and it’s safe. Helvetica and Century Gothic are great options too. You can use ONE additional font for your cover slide or slide headings. Just make sure the extra font you pick is original and readable. Take care of your audience’s visual comfort.

For all your presentation slides, try to keep your font size BIG. Whether your plan to show your PowerPoint presentation at a public presentation or not. First, you will increase your audience visual comfort. Second, it’s a great exercise to help you develop effective presentation skills, as you will have to learn how to summarize content. I personally use a minimum of 20 for important parts, and 14 to 18 for less important parts. To comment charts or graphics, 12 is the minimum. Even if you have a lot to write, keep in mind that you don’t need to write down everything to communicate important points. Keep it short. People are busy. Less is more.

♥ Font Squirrel is my favorite source of FREE, high-quality and designer-friendly fonts. To install new fonts on your computer: On Window, download the archive > click Start > Control Panel > Font > Paste your font files.

3. Color Scheme

I suggest the use of TWO or THREE colors. For all your content slides, use of black for core text (in that case, your PPT background shall be white or light grey) and use the ONE or TWO additional colors to highlight important keywords, statements or figures. Colors picked must be visible, contrast between each other’s and with your PowerPoint background.

♥ Not inspired or just wondering which colors match well together? Try out Kuler, Adobe’s great color palette generator. It is free and you can choose y from thousands of pre-built schemes.

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5 Steps to Prevent Death By PowerPoint

1. Number of slides

If you are making a Sales Presentation, I’d limit yourself to six slides. If you can’t sell yourself in six slides then you’ll never be able to sell yourself. Most sales books will tell you, that you’ve got about 5 minutes max to get a client’s attention.

After the six slides you might then want to get into individual benefits or product slides at the client’s request. Use PowerPoint Hyperlinks to get you from one part of the presentation to the next.

2. The Text

How Much Text?

The short answer is as little as possible…Generally if somebody can read the PowerPoint and understand the presentation without any further help, then it’s too much text. Many trainers talk of the use of slogans, but to define that a little more:

  • Simple Slides

  • Short Clauses

  • No Articles

  • Few Verbs

  • Size 32 best

  • Surprise me

  • Memory jogger

  • Max 6 lines

    Should you reveal line by line or all at once… Well there’s a big debate and my view is that if you have a big surprise in the text then don’t show your hand! Otherwise I’d show all points it gives both the presenter and audience an indication of the flow of the presentation.

    3. Graphics

    In simple terms, if you’re going to talk about the diagram in your presentation then its an asset, if it’s just there to make your slide pretty then its a liability. An old boss of mine used to say that every presentation needs to have one killer-image that people will remember. Even if that image takes you longer than the rest of the presentation it is time well spent.

    Designing Graphics

    The ideal graphic is one specifically made for the presentation by a professional. Failing that consider the following options:

  • For numeric information, use Excel to create graphs and then copy and paste them into your PowerPoint. (Excel has much better control over graphs than PowerPoint)

  • Use the insert -> diagram option to make semi-customised content.

  • Use Google Images to try and find the specific image you want.

  • Use the drawing toolbar to combine your images effectively.

  • Thumbnails can be useful navigational items for training Presentations, because they provide a quick visual reference for students to see what aspect of the subject the lecturer is referring to.

    4. Multimedia Content

    Generally speaking I try to avoid multimedia content and unless you are highly technically adept, I’d advise against using any kind of sound or videos in your presentation. Be aware of the following pitfalls:
    Linked files do not transfer well from one PC to another. The best method to make presentations portable is to use the package for CD option.

  • Check your audio before giving the presentation and make sure you take all the required cables. (Plan B, one presentation with sound and one without)

  • NEVER assume you can use the Internet during a presentation. It’s always best to ensure all content is on your PC.

  • Make sure you use the same version of PowerPoint on both PCs. (If you can’t check your presentation carefully before giving it.)

  • Don’t use more than one fade and more than one transition per slideshow, unless this is going to be used in a kiosk, you want the speaker to be the focus of attention not the flashing graphics.

    5. Front Page

    In many cases the front slide will be shown before your presentation and this is a great opportunity to get the audience excited about what you are going to say, make sure your frontpage has:
    The name of the presentation clearly displayed

    You have now designed some wonderful slide, so now all you have to do is speak about them!

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