Monday, June 21, 2010

Presentation Hosting

What's the best way to share a PowerPoint presentation online? Several services are available; almost all have basic features available for free and premium features for a modest monthly fee.

Cons: Animation support is very spotty. Not all embedded images were rendered. Some fonts ended up being difficult to read. Hidden slides were incorporated into the presentation.

Pros: Voice annotation support. Control over slide and animation timings.
Cons: Animations only work with annotated presentations, or if you manually set timings for each animation through a cumbersome interface. No privacy controls in free version.

Pros: Animations are reproduced almost flawlessly.
Cons: It gets confused by presentations with hidden slides. There's no option to suppress presenter notes from being displayed.

As soon as I realized there was no free option -- only a free 30-day trial -- I moved on.

SlideShare
Pros: It's integrated with LinkedIn. It supports Apple Keynote and multiple video formats.
Cons: It doesn't support presentation animations.

Thanks to MasterNewMedia for getting me started.

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