Like most I remember when Powerpoint was the salesman’s best friend.  It allowed us to construct our own messages, and look vaguely professional doing it.

And like everything else, the attraction palled as people started to use their Powerpoint skills as some sort of status symbol and the presentation technique became more important than the content.

Nowadays a Powerpoint presentation is as useful as hole in a bucket.  We need stuff in web pages, not running on our laptops.

For those still wedded to Powerpoint today’s answer is Slideshare.  They can upload .ppt files, share them on Slideshare, share them in blogs, publish them on Twitter and Facebook.

Slideshare is a an application we can instal on our LinkedIn pages and that helps get our multi media content our there where partners and potential partners can view it.  This now includes YouTube videos which can can embedded in Slideshare slides.

Not being a fan of Powerpoint, my preference goes to Sliderocket.

We don’t do much in presentation form these days, but there are still times when its the best tool for the job.  Sliderocket is horribly clunky software to use, but does a great job of showing presentation slides in code embedded in web pages.

Beware, Sliderocket does offer a tool to import Powerpoint files, but when I tried it just didn’t work. – Might be different now.

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