Online PowerPoint Presentation.com

Guy Kawasaki, a technology evangelist, venture marketer and all around great guy has this good article on his site about developing PowerPoint Files.  Here’s an excerpt:

“Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation because a normal human being cannot comprehend more than ten concepts in a meeting—and venture capitalists are very normal. (The only difference between you and venture capitalist is that he is getting paid to gamble with someone else’s money). If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business. The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:

1. Problem
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action

You should give your ten slides in twenty minutes. Sure, you have an hour time slot, but you’re using a Windows laptop, so it will take forty minutes to make it work with the projector. Even if setup goes perfectly, people will arrive late and have to leave early. In a perfect world, you give your pitch in twenty minutes, and you have forty minutes left for discussion.”

Here’s the full article:

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html

Welcome dear reader!  This is the kickoff blog entry for Online-PowerPoint-Presentation.com, a site dedicated to resources and information about how to conduction presentations online, using the PowerPoint file format.  This site will contain many articles of advice, tips, how-to’s and best practices about creating and delivering compelling PowerPoint presentations. 

We all know that PowerPoint has become the defacto standard in conducting presentations that feature slides.  Its easy to use and by being bundled with the Office suite of software, it has found its place on the desktops of millions of office computers around the world.  However, a challenge still remains when one tries to share presentations, as well as deliver them live over distances.  Web Conferencing has bridged the distance a bit by allowing PowerPoint presenters to deliver their presentations to a remote audience all from the confort of their desks.

Several solutions exist that allow PowerPoint users to present their slides online, which range from high-end expensive systems, such as WebEx, Microsoft LiveMeeting or Adobe Connect, to middle of market players such as GoToMeeting, Raindance and InstantPresenter.  Free and lower end solutions have also cropped up, giving the consumer a wide range of choices. 

This blog will attempt to discuss the many options available to consumers for presenting the PowerPoint presentations online and we hope to leave the reader more informed when they leave than when they arrived.  Thanks for reading!