Online Presentation Tools
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Create beautiful presentations in no time, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. There's no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.
ZOHO Show
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Zoho Show is part of the Zoho family of productivity and collaboration tools, similar to Google Docs. Zoho also allows you to create presentations from scratch, using themes and layouts, or upload existing ones from your desktop or the internet. Media handling, however is limited, with only images allowed (you can embed videos using HTML code). Zoho Show also allows you to export your slideshows into a variety of formats, including HTML, PowerPoint and .pdf.
Prezi
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Prezi is a Flash-based visualization, storytelling, and presentation tool that allows you to create nonlinear presentations. Using the simple editor, you can place text, images, video, Flash files, and draw lines to show relationships between each item. The final result is a visual map that lets users zoom in and out and navigate to content in a clickable environment. It takes a while to get used to Prezi’s interface — especially the Zebra (zooming editor), which allows you to position and resize objects. The site offers excellent support with an online manual, tutorial videos, examples, and a blog.
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Empressr
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Empressr is a free web based application that allows you to create, manage and share rich media presentations online. You can upload video, images and audio and it allows you to insert charts and tables. It also has a media library that allows you to upload and manage your media assets and features drag and drop, search, filter and keyword support to locate files quickly. You can import images from Flickr, Google, Yahoo and Photobucket. You can also record video and audio such as voice overs or sound tracks.
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SlideRocket
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SlideRocket is a web based solution that allows you to create presentations using slide transitions, object effects, themes and layouts, shapes, charts, tables, images, audio and video. You can also integrate content from free web resources like YouTube and Flickr and pull data from sources like Google Spreadsheets. SlideRocket also allows you to import existing PowerPoint files which you can then continue to edit and share online. File export to PowerPoint is also supported. SlideRocket is free with premium features.
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MyPlick
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MyPlick is a new site that lets you create slide shows and offer an interactive widget for viewers to navigate your slide show.
Images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents and all sorts of files can be uploaded (at once) to create your slide show. Include audio along with your slide show to make a complete online
presentation. You can also add notes for each slide, to provide additional information to viewers as the slide show plays. Viewers can also bookmark, download, or email the slide show, or select
the part of your slide show they’d wish to skip to with the thumbnail tool along the player’s sidebar. Each slide show has two embed options for users: the slim version, which just shows the
slide show content, and the full version, which includes the notes, etc. along the side for more viewer interaction. You get stats on how well your slide show is performing, indicating how long
users spent on each slide, etc.
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Krisztina (Thursday, 06 January 2011 00:09)
You can, of course, opt to create your presentations using a desktop application such as PowerPoint, Keynote or OpenOffice, and then publish and share them using web services such as Slideshare, SlideServe, Google Docs etc. Still, if you wish to add videos for example to your presentation, the above mentioned online tools are more preferable. :)
Krisztina (Thursday, 06 January 2011 00:26)
Another awesome application is authorSTREAM (http://www.authorstream.com/).