The Slideshare website has published the results of its presentation competition. The winner was an educational slideshow about worldwide water usage. Although not created by a nonprofit, it’s excellent inspiration for charities that want to put across a campaigning message. Notice how simple it is, with carefully chosen fonts and colour scheme and images from a photo library. You could do this!
Slideshare is a website that allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations and share them with the world. You can then easily insert those presentations into your own website (just like I’ve done here) by pasting code that Slideshare provides into your web pages.
It’s heartening to see that many of the presentations on Slideshare have a social message, some are uploaded by nonprofits and many have a campaigning focus. Slideshare is a great resource to dip into when you’re looking for ideas for your next PowerPoint presentation.
And let’s face it, most PowerPoint presentations are bloody awful and we need all the inspiration we can get. They really don’t have to be just lists of bullet points. So here’s a slideshow that shows you how to avoid Death by Powerpoint and here’s a well-written and amusing free guide that tells you Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes.
