Presentation Samples
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09/30/2009 02:34 AM
SlideShare's annual presentation contest continues showcasing changes in PowerPoint design -- and also design in relation to SlideShare's social media evolution. The winner for this year's World’s Best Presentation Contest is a presentation called Healthcare Napkins All, created by Dan Roam with Dr. Tony Jones.
09/30/2009 01:36 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: The World's Best Presentation Contest 2009: Conversation with Rashmi Sinha
Rashmi Sinha is cofounder and CEO of SlideShare, the world's largest community for sharing presentations. She manages design and business development at SlideShare. Rashmi has a PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology from Brown University. She did a PostDoc at UC Berkeley in Human Computer Interaction. She blogs at www.rashmisinha.com about social software and running a startup.
09/22/2009 04:30 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Concept Slides: Six Segment Circle
This first-in-this-series sample comprises a six segment circle -- you can change the individual segments as well as the thin do-nut shaped circle around the segments using fill techniques for PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2003.
03/29/2009 11:56 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Cool Stuff: Animated Headshots
Learn how to animate a series of headshots -- very useful for an opening slide sequence. You can also use the same technique for product shots or vacation pictures -- just substitute the headshots!
12/30/2008 02:50 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: People Animation in PowerPoint with Motion Paths
This sample presentation shows you how you can use motion path animations in PowerPoint on ungrouped vector objects to create a very effective introduction or section slide.
11/14/2008 02:31 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Parts of a Shoe: Sample Presentation
Parts of a Shoe: This is a sample presentation we created in-house at Indezine so that we could create a presentation that had lots of internal hyperlinks to other slides in the presentation. And yes, it was a good topic -- we haven't found any visual representation of a shoe that shows its various parts -- anywhere on the net!
11/13/2008 01:25 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: World's Best Presentation Contest: Conversation with Jeff Brenman
Jeff Brenman is the founder and director of Apollo Ideas, an award winning presentation design and consulting firm based out of North Carolina. Jeff regularly works as a communication consultant to top executives in corporations around the globe, empowering their business communications with better visual storytelling. His presentation won the last The World's Best Presentation Contest held by SlideShare -- and he won it again this time!
08/01/2008 10:38 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Better Investor Decks in PowerPoint
Almost everyday someone is criticizing PowerPoint because they believe it makes people dumb -- and that's not even the larger problem. The larger problem is that it's so much easy to mention a problem without providing a solution!
12/09/2007 11:28 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Jigsaw Maker
Jigsaws can add a whole new level of interest to a PowerPoint slide, especially if the jigsaw shapes are cleverly placed and animated. However easy it might be to create something like this from scratch in PowerPoint, it cannot be as easy as Jigsaw Maker,
12/06/2007 01:06 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: US Elections 2008 Badges in PowerPoint
Just uploaded US Elections badges in PNG format -- copy to your other PowerPoint slides as required!
09/03/2007 12:42 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Intro Animation Contest from PowerPoint Cafe, Korea
The PowerPoint Expert Club is among the largest PowerPoint cafes in Korea. Their new Intro Animation Contest requires participants to create a showcase in PowerPoint with the club/cafe as the topic. The main criteria for the winners will be based on Power
07/16/2007 03:30 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: iFilm Contest: Conversation with Ted Thayer
Ted Thayer whips up cool PowerPoint presentations with amazing animations. He's 14 years old, but that did not stop him from taking part in iFilm's Best PowerPoint Moment contest and becoming one of the winners.
06/29/2007 01:46 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: iFilm's Best PowerPoint Moment
There's so much you can do with PowerPoint these days -- and showcasing your best PowerPoint moment is the concept behind a new contest at iFilm.com. Microsoft is sponsoring prizes worth $10,000 for the contest -- and results are less than a day away!
05/26/2007 01:52 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Apollo Ideas: Conversation with Jeff Brenman
Jeff Brenman is a graduate from Northwestern University where he studied psychology and business. It was pretty early on in his college experience that he became disenchanted with the conventional presentation styles, and started to independently study th
05/16/2007 03:02 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Ethos3: Conversation with Scott Schwertly
Scott Schwertly (pictured to the right) Founder/CEO of Ethos3 has loved giving and hearing presentations since he gave his first big speech in the 7th grade. Scott has spent the last eight years working for television network affiliates helping them creat

