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Tips on using SlideShare for live presentations
I have started using SlideShare to give all my talks. Why? I don't like PowerPoint as a live presentation tool. Second, I refer to lots of websites in my presentations and hate having to switch between Full Screen and web browser. I always loose my place in the presentation and then have to start from the beginning. SlideShare handles this much more elegantly.
There are a few tricks to using SlideShare for a live presentation.
-Sometimes the images don't render very well (especially for a live presentation). You can make the rendering much better by saving as pdf (and unchecking option for compressing while exporting to pdf).
-Second, SlideShare can sometimes be slow and its annoying waiting for the screen to load up in front of an audience. Easy solution is to cache the whole presentation beforehand. I go through the whole presentation in full screen mode - so during the live talk, it goes all smoothly.
-Going back and forth with the web. This is the part I like the most. When you are in full screen mode, you can press "Esc" at any time. I already have the websites open that I want to show. When I am done with it, I put SlideShare into full screen mode again. It starts at the right point.
The best part is since everyone in the audience has seen me using SlideShare, they know where to go to get the slides. Ever since I started doing this, I get a lot more traffic to my slides and a many more talk invitations!
Anyone else using SlideShare for live presentations?
There are a few tricks to using SlideShare for a live presentation.
-Sometimes the images don't render very well (especially for a live presentation). You can make the rendering much better by saving as pdf (and unchecking option for compressing while exporting to pdf).
-Second, SlideShare can sometimes be slow and its annoying waiting for the screen to load up in front of an audience. Easy solution is to cache the whole presentation beforehand. I go through the whole presentation in full screen mode - so during the live talk, it goes all smoothly.
-Going back and forth with the web. This is the part I like the most. When you are in full screen mode, you can press "Esc" at any time. I already have the websites open that I want to show. When I am done with it, I put SlideShare into full screen mode again. It starts at the right point.
The best part is since everyone in the audience has seen me using SlideShare, they know where to go to get the slides. Ever since I started doing this, I get a lot more traffic to my slides and a many more talk invitations!
Anyone else using SlideShare for live presentations?
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Inappropriate?Excellent idea. I agree that the things you find irritating are also irritating to others and that using SlideShare for this purpose will not only make these irritants go away, but will also improve the user experience of the audience members. Great idea!!! -
Inappropriate?Excellent idea. I agree that the things you find irritating are also irritating to others and that using SlideShare for this purpose will not only make these irritants go away, but will also improve the user experience of the audience members. Great idea!!! -
Inappropriate?Excellent idea. I agree that the things you find irritating are also irritating to others and that using SlideShare for this purpose will not only make these irritants go away, but will also improve the user experience of the audience members. Great idea!!!
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Inappropriate?Thanks Rashmi for the tips. I need to give presentations once a while. I wd possibly try this out next time. Recently I carried my ppt in my pendrive and at the venue I got some virus to infect it!
Using your idea may be I can avoid that calamity!
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?You have good points here but what I do not like is the following:
1. When you open your slideshare presentation in FULL mode
2. And click on a link in an specific slides
3. If you want to go back to your slideshare presentation, it will not be in FULL mode anymore. Why cannot it stay in full mode in one tab while you open a link in another tab?
On the contrary, when you open your presentation in FULL mode directly from Powepoint and click on one link in an specific slide, you can go back directly to your powerpoint presentation in FULL mode whithout having to click on the "full view" icon.
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