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I've been studying PowerPoint; I've shared some of my notes here before. Now from Howard, links to a new kind of presentation:

Integrated Flickr slideshows, Creative Commons remixes of images found on Flickr, with a slideshow or outline that makes the topic accessible to the web audience. Considering that many people at most technology conferences attend lectures with laptops in their laps, if you're not making a big play for a show-stopping handwaver of a lecture, you might as well understand the audience will be be attending the present and future of your published outline online.

Here's a good sample Online Outline, which was turned into a Flickr Slideshow. Increasing outreach - appropriate for their topic "Knowledge Sharing with Distributed Networking Tools."

Saturday March 11 I'm giving a talk at South by Southwest; part of their "Screenburn" celebration of video games. More details to follow - now I will continue work on my slides.

Posted by justin at March 5, 2006 9:49 PM

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Posted by: Jenova [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 6, 2006 11:35 AM

I think Flash has a lot of potential for presentations, to make them seem fluid and graceful, because you can control more complex animations and make a seamless whole for graphics and text.

But you can't isolate one great slide that you like, or easily copy an image. Maybe if you're making the presentation, you like the control. But for someone who is reading it, or wants to share your presentation (or just a part of it), Flash is too protected if that makes sense. I can't link to, or copy a great slide from the middle!

And I think if you're making great presentations, people want to cite specific pieces, at least online. But then again, if you want to synchronize music or speech recording to slides, Flash could be a good tool. Jenova, have you considered recording your voice and publishing it with your slides?

Posted by: Justin Hall [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 8, 2006 11:16 AM

flash blows. miserable metaphors/ui. text isn't text. it is so "anti-open" is kinda makes me ill.

then again I'm a huge slide show fan. the flickr example is interesting, but while the photos are artistic, the presentation is not. i would rather have photos that have information (rather than just aesthetic) and bump up the "look" by having some control over pacing and transition...

Posted by: nostatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 9, 2006 11:55 AM

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