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The Top 10 SlideShares of All Time

Draw inspiration for your next presentation from these brilliant slideshares..

When you want to learn something new and awesome, where do you look? A lot of people say TED Talks, and while I like those ( especially these ones ), you can find awesome content to get your creative juices flowing on LinkedIn's SlideShare.

The subject matter you'll find here is amazing, and so is the quality of the presentations. And if you're anything like me, you know it's always good to have an arsenal of ideas handy for PowerPoint or keynote presentations.

Speaking of PowerPoint, a surprising number of the top 10 SlideShares ever published revolve around how to make a good presentation --and how to create one, as well.

Follow some of the advice in these presentations and you'll have them rolling in the aisles instead of snoozing in their seats!

So here we go, the top 10 SlideShares of all time.

1. The Brand Gap

Think you know everything there is to know about brands? You may be surprised by this deck put together by Neutron LLC.  It gives the modern definition of a brand, and it may not be what you think it is. Not a logo, not an identity, and not a product. Curious? Have a look.

2. How Google Works

Do you want to know how Google really works, as told by a pair of insiders?

This unreal slideshow created by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg follows their learning journey, starting with their arrival at Google (when they knew everything there was to know about running a successful business), to their realization that they didn't know anything at all, to the lessons they learned about how technology has changed everything.

3. You Suck at PowerPoint!

I really love this one. How many times have you been trapped in a dark meeting room trying to stay awake while someone drones through page after page of the most depressing PowerPoint presentation ever? If you're like most of the world, you've stopped counting. With a tagline like "It's not the program that sucks, it's you," how could you go wrong?

4. What Would Steve Do?

The previous SlideShare covered the technical aspects of presentation. This one leverages the strengths of the world's best presenters so that you can create awe-inspiring presentations that will move mountains (or sell products). The Steve is, of course, Steve Jobs, who was the master of presentation.

5. Social Media Marketing: Evolution or Revolution?

Well all know technology has allowed the consumer to take control of advertising.  Around the world, businesses are struggling to remain relevant while still getting their messages in front of the people with the money. Social media is the best way to engage consumers, and this SlideShare from Alex Wong delves deep.

6. What the F**k Is Social Media? One Year Later.

Right from the first slide, which compares social media with teenage sex, this SlideShare takes great steps to explain in a humorous way why we should all care about social media. It is an internet powerhouse, having long ago outstripped most other reasons people use the internet. It is "word of mouth on steroids" according to the author, Boston's Martafy!

7. The Real Life Social Network v2

How do people's online and offline networks merge? And why exactly should we care? Because social networks are about understanding behavior, not technology, according to Paul Adams, who was user research lead for social at Google.

8. Brain Rules

There's nothing worse when you're making a presentation than seeing the nodding heads and closed eyes in the audience--not that it's ever happened to me! The first step in preventing death by PowerPoint is to know how your audience thinks, and what will engage them. This shares some of the concepts from the book Brain Rules by John Medina, including the important 10-minute rule.

9. Amazon.com: The Hidden Empire.

We all know about Amazon; you've probably ordered stuff from it online. I know I have. But what do you really know about Amazon? Did you know, for example, that it experienced some of the fastest growth on the internet? Its market share accounts for about a third of e-commerce sales in the U.S. Interested? Take a look.

10. What Is Strategy?

If you don't have a strategy, it's pretty easy to waste your time and resources by running every which way. Global Strategic Innovation Expert Marc Sniukas defines strategy and then brings together the different schools of strategic thought and shows us how all of the elements come together to form strategy.

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7 Great UX Presentations on Slideshare

Slideshare is one of the world’s largest professional content sharing community. So it’s safe to say it’s a great place to go for presentations on any topic.

We’ve collected 7 great UX presentations from slideshare that we think do a great job explaining and illustrating UX definitions, processes, guidelines and more.

1. What is UX?  by David Carr 

Looking for a simple way to understand what UX is with real-life examples? Then look no further, learn about UX briefs and their elements, followed by UX Process examples and wireframes.

2. Content UI Design Usability User  by Jayan Narayanan  

This slideshare busts UX and UI myths, breaks down the elements of UX and explores what UI is, followed with new trends and disciplines for UX design.

3. UX 101: A quick & dirty introduction to user experience strategy & design  by Morgan McKeagney  

An excellent introduction to understanding what UX is, followed by it’s elements and processes. Overall great coverage to learn how to approach UX.

4. UI/UX Design  by Sumit Singh

If you’re interested in pursuing a career in UI Design, this is the perfect slideshare for you. It asks and answers questions with thorough examples to help set you on the right path in making your career choice.

5. Simple Steps to Great UX/UI by Koombea

Breaking down the difference between UX and UI, this slideshare explains the importance in both as well as design tools to use to create amazing products.

6. Usable Psychology for UX/UI Designers  by Maor Shabbat

No UX is complete without taking into consideration users behaviour. Understanding the psychology behind how users use your products sn one of the core foundations to designing great UX.

7. UX & Design Riyadh: Usability Guidelines for Websites & Mobile Apps  by UXBERT Labs  

A thorough presentation covering the basics of UX Design and how it’s implemented. Filled with guidance and examples on how to ensure delivering an excellent UX.

At UXBERT Labs we specialize in UX and Technology Innovation consulting to help businesses deliver world-class experiences. With offices in Dubai and Riyadh, our team of UX Researchers, Designers, and Developers deliver custom designed and built software to help businesses succeed.

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The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Slide Decks: 10 Actionable SlideShare Tips for Maximum Results

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Is SlideShare part of your content strategy? Truth be told, we have yet to fully integrate it into our content creation process here at Buffer. We’ve felt lots of great nudges, though.

We’ve heard tell of the amazing opportunity on SlideShare , how it’s a primed network of highly engaged influencers just itching to find and share your stuff . What might ultimately sell us, though, is the response we got from a single slide deck , created in a hurry, that garnered over 5,000 views in one weekend.

It would appear that SlideShare has the potential for big returns on a small investment.

I dove into some research on SlideShare content in order to see the best route to success and how to best invest your time. Here are the best Slideshare tips and resources I found.

Our SlideShare experiment: 5,000 41,000 views for 10 minutes of work

We’ve long been told that SlideShare is a great place to invest quality content creation time. The stats bear this out .

There are over 60 million unique visits to SlideShare every month.

Seven million SlideShare pages get viewed every single day.

SlideShare receives 500 percent more traffic from business owners than Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

SlideShare was one of our key suggestions for advanced content tips and ways to take content beyond the standard blog and social scenes . We just hadn’t quite fit it into our schedule yet.

When the opportunity arose to practice what we preach and create a slide deck of an existing blog post, I jumped on it. I hopped into Google Presentations—one of the cloud services that come with Google Drive—and started building with a template. I pulled headings and images from our social media frequency guide and uploaded them into the slides. I placed the featured image from the blog post as the background. I added some sources and a call to action. Voila!

When the slides were done, I saved as a Microsoft PowerPoint file and uploaded to SlideShare. All told, the presentation was 12 slides and included fewer than five words per slide.

Since I created the slide deck as part of a blog post that had yet to go live, we gave it zero promotion. And yet, when we happened upon our SlideShare page the following day, it had earned over 3,000 views. The presentation got picked up as a featured slideshare on SlideShare’s social media page . Our 10 minutes of quality time to build it resulted in over 5,000 views in one weekend. Today, after a slide facelift from Ethos3 and Slideshare , it has 41,000 views and counting.

What did we learn from this?

• SlideShare is worth our time.
• SlideShare users are eager for quality content.
• SlideShare has huge potential for businesses and brands looking for a new audience.

Of course, it all starts with the slides.

5 critical elements to creating a beautiful, viral slidedeck

The most important rule of SlideShare: If your presentations aren’t good enough, you won’t get anything from SlideShare.

Talk about pressure! This quote comes from blogger and presenter Mauro D’Andrea who put together a huge resource of SlideShare information for the KISSmetrics blog . D’Andrea’s biggest takeaway from the post: Design a great presentation.

I might amend that bit of advice just a tad. I’m not sure I was well equipped or capable of building a great presentation on my own, yet we still saw good results. So how about: Design a good-to-great presentation. It doesn’t have to be Picasso; it should be better than elementary.

A great place to start in understanding how to design beautiful, viral slidedecks is with this all-encompassing presentation from Slides That Rock .

In summary, here are the five principles of good SlideShare design:

• Your message
• Keep it simple
• Stunning images
• Awesome colors

1. Your message: Focused and clear

A strong message is focused, clear, and concise. Know where you’re headed with your presentation before you begin. D’Andrea, the author of the KISSmetrics resource, has some further advice on what makes slide content stand out. If you’re aiming for a strong message, consider one of these elements:

• Show something shocking
• Explain useful information
• Evoke emotions

2. Keep it simple: The average Slideshare deck is 14 slides

A strong, focused message will help prevent your presentation from veering off into complex, superfluous territory. Simple works best on SlideShare. Keep in mind that the average SlideShare presentation is 14 slides and fewer than 25 words per slide.

New Rainmaker , a branch of CopyBlogger, has some of the simplest (and beautiful) slides out there. Here is an example from their first presentation .

3. Cool fonts: Look beyond the basics

Choose a font outside the norm. Here are some standard fonts alongside some alternatives.

Many graphic design/presentation programs allow for adding custom fonts to a design. If you can’t find a new font from the drop-down list of fonts in your tool of choice, you might see something you like at Font Squirrel , a free font resource.

4. Stunning images: See our guide of free sources

Emphasizing visual content is important not just on blogs and social media but also on SlideShare. The more stunning images you can include, the better. If you’re in need of a resource (or two, or 53) for free images, you can check out our complete roundup of free image sources . A couple of sources I use every day are compfight , Photo Pin , and Death to the Stock Photo .

The slides from Rand Fishkin ‘s presentations are very image-focused. Here is a recent example from his presentation on content marketing .

5. Colors: Create a consistent palette

Not only is it great to include awesome colors but also consistent colors. Choose one or two colors to be consistent throughout your slides , and if you can make them awesome colors, all the better!

One fun tip is to pull colors from a main image or logo in your presentation. Pictaculous is a tool that lets you upload an image, and get a full color palette based on the image you uploaded.

Here’s a before-and-after of a Buffer presentation

We held our first webinar back in March , which also meant our first opportunity to put together a set of slides . They got the point across but were far from elegant. So we went to the presentation experts at Ethos3 for a slide makeover.

Here are some of the images—before and after—along with the advice behind the changes.

Ethos3’s advice : Add a stunning image and a complementary icon to the slide. Find a custom font that relates well to the theme of the presentation (in our case, a thin, modern font helped support the theme of “science”).

Ethos3’s advice : Place floating screen captures into a picture of a laptop, giving the image a sense of purpose and place and helping the viewer get an easier sense of where the Buffer screen grabs belong. The bright green should be the central color of the presentation; it’s carried over here from the opening slide.

Ethos3’s advice : Instead of screen-capturing a quote from another site, create your own in your presentation builder. In the new example, Ethos3 used our new standard font and standard green color.

Ethos3’s advice : Title decks like these can be highlighted with some well-chosen iconography or imagery (plus the return of our green color and modern font).

In general, some quick wins for any amateur slide designer can be broken down into these points:

• Find a custom font and eye-catching color , and stick with them throughout the presentation.
• Use visual metaphor to supplement the text on a slide. Try iconography and images that support the message.
• Fill the slide with an image . Avoid placing an image in the center of the slide (with white border around it), if at all possible.

5 tips for working faster and smarter when creating slides

Once you know the basics, you can add a few new tips and tricks to your toolbox to really make the most of the slide deck time you have.

Tip #1: Pick a favorite presentation builder and get good at it

The better you know your design tool, the faster you can work. Some of the top presentation tools out there include:

• Google Presentations

I’ve mentioned before that my go-to tool for building visual content is Canva, which has a lot of customizable, premade templates to get you started on a design, and you can copy past presentations to modify for future slide decks.

(I used Google Presentations to build the slide deck that earned 5,000 views in one weekend. The templates and customization options are quite intuitive there as well.)

Tip #2: Create a template and use it forever

The single best bit of advice I can give for building SlideShare into your workflow is to create a template. It’s like paying in advance for a season pass. The upfront investment is big, but the template will pay for itself before you know.

My template solution might be a bit of a muddle. I simply copy a past presentation and use it as the basis for building a new one, deleting out all the old text and images and replacing them with new. (If you’ve got a more elegant solution, I’d love to hear about it in the comments!)

Tip #3: Build your slides to fit the full SlideShare screen

Notice a difference between these two presentations?

One is letterbox and one is full-screen. This comes down to the size of slides that you upload to SlideShare. When I built a presentation in Google Presentations, the default size was letterbox, and the resulting upload failed to fill the full size of the SlideShare viewer.

If you want to have a presentation that fits snugly, build slides that are 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels tall , or a similar aspect ratio.

Tip #4: Include links, starting with your fourth slide

Clickable links are not allowed on the first three slides of a SlideShare presentation. If you happen to have one there, SlideShare will disable it.

Starting with the fourth slide, though, you can add links to your heart’s content. Hubspot has a helpful post about how this process works ; essentially, you create hyperlinked text boxes in PowerPoint, export to an Adobe PDF, then upload to SlideShare.

At the very least, your slides can include the text of the URL so that viewers can type it in themselves. If you happen to be linking to a long URL on your call-to-action page, you might be interested to try bit.ly’s custom URL shortening for a snappier, easier, more memorable link to type.

Tip #5: Make the most of the upload process—optimize, optimize, optimize

Did you know that the information you enter when you upload your SlideShare file is the information indexed by Google? And did you know that 12 million visits every month come from Google traffic alone?

Here are some quick tips on the most important elements of a successful SlideShare upload (for more specific details, I’d recommend this SlideShare post by Ian Cleary of Razor Social ).

Give your presentation a good title and description

Both the title and description you enter at upload will be the title and description Google uses in search results. Google will grab only the first 65 characters of a title and the first 155 characters of a description. Keep this in mind when you’re composing.

(It’s okay to go longer with your SlideShare description, so long as the first 155 characters represent a solid summary.)

Tag and categorize your content so it gets found on SlideShare

Users find presentations on SlideShare using these tags, so be sure to hit three or four of the most relevant ones for your upload. FYI: the six most-used tags on SlideShare are business, statistics, social media, market, trends, and research.

Allow others to share your slides, and then share your slides yourself

Double check that the share settings are enabled for your presentation, including the option for others to embed your slides on their site.

You can also promote your slides yourself. SlideShare presentations are easily shared on Twitter via built-in embedded media. Here’s an example.

You should be more like Jay-Z to become a better leader, says @piethis. Here’s why: http://t.co/UBTLjs17yD — SlideShare (@SlideShare) May 27, 2014

What will you share on SlideShare?

Hopefully this post has made the idea of SlideShare an attractive option for your content strategy. We’re excited to dive in with more SlideShares ourselves and to continue to get better and faster at our creation process.

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1) Tweak Your Slides: Ten Design Principles for Educators (Version 3.0)

Learners often "buy e-learning" with their eyes and if they don't find it attractive it won't motivate them to learn. Good news is that by following some simple and practical design principles your eLearning screens can look great. Designing your material, then, has a lot to do with sticking to the essentials and arranging them properly.   We personally love how actionable tips are provided in this presentation. 

2) 5 Reasons Typography is Powerful

Everybody knows that typography can be incredibly powerful. It can change the entire look and feel of your eLearning courses. It's use will set the mood and tone of your material. 

What is the typography you’re using saying about your course? This presentation has some awesome takeaways about how to use some of the basic principles of typography not only to achieve readability but also to bring interest. Remember to call upon the 5 points when designing your eLearning courses. 

3) 16 eLearning Quotes to Inspire You

For many, the simplest ideas in the form of a short quote can help them think more clearly. That's why we've curated a list of what we think are some of the best eLearning or education quotes. You'll find thoughts from people like Elliot Massie, Dr. Michael Allen, to historical figures like Henry Ford. 

We hope you get the dosis of inspiration from these famous eLearning industry professionals: 

4) Brain Rules for Presenters

The brain is our primary tool for learning. It's seat of thought, memory,  consciousness and emotion. So it only makes sense to explore it before attempting to design our eLearning courses. By understanding how the learner’s brain functions, course developers are better able to create material that works with the brain and not contradict it. 

In 131 slides, Garr Reynols breaks down what he believes are the main takeaways and quotes from the book " Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School " . This is a must-see  presentation of how to do a brain-friendly, learning-maximised presentation or eLearning course.

5) Great Presentations Are Like Ads

Getting learners to focus on your material is difficult. Efficient course developers make focusing with the material easier by making it fun, attractive and engaging. Much like advertisements, effective eLearning designs manage to grab the learner's attention while piquing their curiosity for more information. 

Just putting words on a screen sucks! Learners get easily bored when you bombard them with numbers, heavy paragraphs, and too much factual information. Avoid this by getting more creative and experimental. Apply the 3 R's of advertising to eLearning!

6) 5 Killer Ways to Open Up Your Next Presentation

Great beginnings of the best novels or TV series or whatnot never fail at making people curious. By working on a great course introduction, you’re tapping people’s innate capability of curiosity and giving them an opportunity to learn something new.  Begin with a story, an offer, or an interesting fact as if you are meeting someone for the first time. If your opening slides are good, learners will happily read your introductory material.

Without doubt, s uccessful eLearning courses that people complete from start to finish share one crucial element: a solid introduction. Below are some indispensable tips to creating one.

7) Introduction to Slide Design: 7 Rules for Creating Effective Slides

Design is too often overlooked by course developers, or otherwise misunderstood – some eLearning designers think that as long as their course "looks good," it's enough. But design affects the way a learner takes in information, so giving a bit more thought to the visual layout of the screens of your course is an important part of eLearning best practices. Follow these simple rules and see the difference they make.

8) How To Use Colors Wisely

"Color Matters. It always has, and it always will." Every shade and stroke of color, or the lack of it, creates its own message. Colors  are powerful in that they elicit emotions, latent ones included. That means that too many colors can overwhelm the learner, making it hard to focus on the course material.  So choosing them wisely can effectively deliver the emotional reaction you expect from your audience.  

This Slideshare presentation gives us three valuable tips on how to use colors effectively in your presentations or eLearning courses: 

9) 20 Eye-Opening Stats You Probably Didn't Know About Mobile Learning

Still not sure about implementing Mobile Learning? Consider these eye-opening statistics published by different organizations such as ASTD, iPass, Towards Maturity and Ambient Insight. Data from their most recent surveys reveal some interesting facts that you might be interested in. 

SHIFT collected these facts about mobile learning to make the case for why everyone needs to take notice of the power of mobile in the learning industry.

10) Design for Usability

Jakob Nielsen defines usability as a "quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use." Basically, its a necessary condition for survival. If your eLearning course or web site is difficult to use, people leave. Is that simple.

A course that provides learners with the right content it’s useful, but if it takes a lot of effort and thinking to actually find the content doesn't work.  It should be too obvious where to click, how to search and how to navigate so that users won’t waste time and get impatient. Definitely take a second to flip through the presentation, as you'll learn a great lesson.

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• Canva offers user-friendly templates, drag-and-drop functionality, and real-time collaboration.
• SlidesCarnival has free templates, no need to sign in, and unlimited downloads.
• Visme provides interactive elements and multiple download formats in one central location.

With so many slideshow templates available, finding the best of the best can be a challenge. I usually rely on Slidesgo, but I’ve found some great alternatives after plenty of exploration. I’ve trusted these resources to create many presentations that elevate my slides to the next level.

Canva is an online design tool that I use to create content . This includes presentations, social media graphics, and more. Canva offers different plans, including Canva Free, Canva Pro, Canva Teams, and Canva Enterprise. There are more options tailored for K-12 and higher education.

Key Features of Canva’s Presentation Templates

These four key features have simplified the slideshow template process for me.

• Canva’s drag-and-drop feature simplifies the template customization process. This feature makes it easy to add and arrange elements (e.g. text and images) and streamline the creation process more efficiently.
• The real-time collaboration feature has been invaluable for group projects. This allowed me to easily share templates as editable files or finished designs. You can use this too, to make the collaboration and content process much smoother.
• The Resize and Magic Switch feature has been a great help. This feature helped me resize my creation for different social media platforms. This feature is available on Canva Pro, Canva Teams, Canva for Education, and Canva for Nonprofits.
• The Canva Design School resource page has been helpful in the creation process. It offers guidance on the tools and features available. It also allowed me to maximize the tool’s potential during editing. This helped to create polished and impactful designs.

SlideEgg is another top template resource that I trust for my presentation needs. It offers a vast collection of customizable templates to boost productivity and creativity. SlideEgg offers a free version. More pricing plans include the Unlimited Quarter, Unlimited Year, Annual Pass, and Lifetime.

Key Features on SlideEgg

These four key features on SlideEgg explain why this is a great template resource.

• SlideEgg offers regular updates. I love how it consistently keeps up with the latest trends and interests.
• I also love how SlideEgg’s high-quality graphics make presentations look professional and polished. This attention to detail significantly enhances the impact and appeal of each presentation.
• The Redesign Your Slides option takes four simple steps to quickly revamp presentations. With the help of SlideEgg experts, you can elevate your slides in a short time frame. If you prefer, you can also use the live chat in the bottom right corner for fast and reliable help.
• I found the SlideEgg site very easy to navigate for the free and paid versions. Each template comes with detailed descriptions of its theme and features. This helps to select a template based on its format options and the platform it is compatible with.

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SlidesCarnival is a great tool for crafting projects. Most templates are compatible with PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Canva. SlidesCarnival aims to elevate presentations for business meetings, marketing efforts, and creative projects.

Key Features of SlidesCarnival

Here are the three top features of SlidesCarnival while creating projects:

• SlidesCarnival is straightforward to use, with no paid plans or subscriptions. Just remember to keep the end credit slide for SlidesCarnival in your presentation.
• I was able to explore the site and download templates without creating a new account. This made it incredibly convenient to access the template I needed.
• I downloaded as many templates as I needed. There is no limit on the number of downloads for SlidesCarnival. This is particularly useful for the times you need to create several presentations.

Visme’s robust template collection is designed to help create visually engaging presentations. It quickly became a go-to resource for me. This option is great for built-in multimedia content, as well as seamless integration of images, videos, and charts.

Key Features of Visme

• Visme’s interactive features are worth exploring. You can try clickable pop-ups, embedded polls, and more. These elements boost engagement by adding interactive content that captures your audience's interest.
• With Visme, I could download my projects in various formats . For example, HTML5 was useful for downloading presentations with embedded audio and animations.
• Implementing interactive features was simple. Especially since I could create any infographics, surveys, and social media graphics, all in one central location.

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SlidesMania offers a wide selection of slideshow templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides. With their slides, you can add flair to your professional or personal presentations.

Key Features of SlidesMania

• All the templates are completely free on this site and I didn't have to create an account or register, which makes it an accessible resource.
• SlidesMania offers a variety of stylish templates. Their creative templates will help give your presentations a fresh and creative look.
• SlidesMania offers a Tips and Tricks for Google Slides feature. This was especially helpful when I was working with Google Slides . There are many guides, including how to add image placeholders or lock content to prevent accidental changes.

Each of these five slideshow template resources can add value to your presentations. I usually rely on Slidesgo . But these alternatives offer distinct features that are worth exploring to take your projects to new heights.

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If you use social media as part of your marketing, you need to know about LinkedIn's SlideShare site. SlideShare allows you to share slideshow presentations, infographics, and other documents to a large audience online.

If you've ever wondered how to use SlideShare, how to sign up for SlideShare or how to create a SlideShare presentation, this quick start guide is for you. We'll explain everything you need to know to get started with SlideShare quickly.

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Now let's learn all about SlideShare and how to start using it: 

1. What Is SlideShare?

SlideShare is a popular presentation and document sharing platform owned by LinkedIn. Since LinkedIn is a professional networking platform, SlideShare users tend to be focused on business.

SlideShare has a growing number of users. At the time this tutorial was written, SlideShare's own statistics put the number of users at 80 million . There are 40 different categories and millions of slideshows have been downloaded. So, with such a large number of users, the potential to reach a large audience through SlideShare is definitely there.

Best of all, there's no cost to upload, review, or download information published on SlideShare. 

Here is a quick presentation on SlideShare  for a brief introduction to the basics, but we go into more detail in this tutorial, so read on: 

2. Who Needs SlideShare?

Now that you know what SlideShare is, you may wonder whether LinkedIn SlideShare is for you. The answer is ... probably.

Here are some examples of individuals and organizations who could benefit by using SlideShare:

• Business owners
• Sales Professionals

Anyone who needs to strengthen their individual or corporate brand online could benefit by using SlideShare. If you sell a product or service, sharing through SlideShare can mean generating more leads for your business.

If you create presentations using PowerPoint or another presentation authoring tool, you'll want to take advantage of what SlideShare has to offer.

3. SlideShare Benefits

If you're still wondering whether you should set up a SlideShare account, here are some benefits of using SlideShare:

• Reach a large professional audience. LinkedIn, the parent company of SlideShare, is a professional networking site. For that reason, SlideShare users tend to be more business-oriented than users found on many other networking sites.
• Free to use. If you're a startup business or solo professional, you may have a limited marketing budget. SlideShare is free, making it an affordable marketing option for your content marketing needs.
• Easy to use. SlideShare is easy to learn how to use. And there are also some excellent third party tutorials available to help you get started quickly. For example, our SlideShare series, How to Make Online Presentations (SlideShare + PowerPoint) . explains SlideShare basics in-depth.
• Builds authority. By uploading useful and relevant information to SlideShare, you showcase your expertise in your field. Readers who come across your high-quality content on SlideShare will associate that content with you and your personal brand.
• Includes analytics . SlideShare includes a free analytic tool to help you measure how often and in what way viewers interact with your content. Track how many times each upload is viewed, shared, liked, commented on or downloaded in a specified period.

For more information on how to build a personal brand, review:

For even more details on how to use SlideShare as part of your marketing effort, study this tutorial:  How to Use 10 Top SlideShare Digital Marketing Strategies . Also, check out some inspiring SlideShare presentation examples: 

4. How Can I Get Started Using SlideShare?

Now that you know what SlideShare is and what it's used for, you probably want to know how to sign up for SlideShare.

If you've got a LinkedIn account, signing up for SlideShare isn't hard. Here's what to do:

1. Go to SlideShare

Type in the URL: slideshare.net . The SlideShare screen appears:

2. Click Signup

Click the Signup button in the upper right corner. The Signup screen appears.

3. Sign Up for a LinkedIn Account

If you don't have a LinkedIn account, click the Join LinkedIn button and follow the instructions to set up your LinkedIn account. Otherwise, click the Sign in hyperlink next to the phrase Already have a LinkedIn account? . The SlideShare SignIn screen displays:

4. Login to Your Account

If you already have a SlideShare account, type in your Username and Password to sign in to SlideShare now. If you've got a LinkedIn account, use the LinkedIn button to sign in to LinkedIn before setting up your account.

5. Give Your LinkedIn Information

If you clicked the LinkedIn button, a permission screen displays asking you to provide SlideShare with your LinkedIn information:

6. Allow Access With Your Password

Type in your email and LinkedIn password and then click the Allow access button.

7. Type in Your Verification Code

If you've got two-step verification set up for your LinkedIn account, you'll be prompted for the verification code sent to your phone. Type in the verification code and click the Verify button.

Congratulations! 

You've just set up your new SlideShare account. You should see your profile photo in the upper right corner of the SlideShare screen next to the Upload button. You're ready to share your first slideshow online.

Learn how to use PowerPoint to create a presentation for SlideShare in this tutorial:

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5. What Can You Do With SlideShare?

Now that you've got your own SlideShare account, you may wonder what is SlideShare used for? Here are three things you can do with SlideShare:

• Upload a slideshow presentation online . One of the main uses of SlideShare is to upload a presentation or other document to share privately or publicly. Learn how to upload a SlideShare presentation in this helpful tutorial, How to Upload Your SlideShare Slides to Use on LinkedIn .
• Market Your SlideShare Presentation Online. SlideShare is a great online platform to reach new customers, promote your ideas, and grow your audience. Learn more digital marketing strategies in this tutorial:  How to Use 10+ Top SlideShare Digital Marketing Strategies . 
• Download a SlideShare for inspiration or reference . Users can make their presentations available to be downloaded. If you find a presentation particularly interesting, you may wish to save it for future reference. This tutorial shows you how: Download (PPT) Files From SlideShare Online For Free .
• Embed a presentation into a website. You can embed SlideShare presentations into your company's website or blog. This tutorial shows you how to do it: Embed a SlideShare PowerPoint SlideShow in a Website .

Now that you've learned some ways to use SlideShare, you're probably ready to upload your own presentation. But first you'll need make sure your presentation stands out. You can do that with a professional template.

6. Where Can I Find Themes and Templates to Use on SlideShare?

As you create a presentation slideshow to display on SlideShare, it's important that it look professional. But creating a professional looking presentation can be a lot of work—especially if you're not a designer.

Of course, you could hire a professional designer to create a unique looking presentation for your company, but that approach is likely to be costly. There's a more cost-effective alternative.

EnvatoElements gives us you access to unlimited download of creative design elements, such as photos, graphics, presentation templates, and more, all for a fraction of the cost of hiring your own designer. Best of all, the attractive professional slideshow templates are fully customizable to meet your company's needs. 

If you need access to a number of digital assets on a regular basis, then Envato Elements packed a powerful offer. But, if you just need one great PowerPoint design , then head over to GraphicRiver. 

To get an idea of some of the professional designs available on these sites, browse through this round up of popular presentation templates: 

We've just answered the question, what is SlideShare? We've also explained how to quickly sign up for SlideShare and given you access to resources on how to create a SlideShare presentation. 

Now that you understand what SlideShare is and how to use it, you're ready to get started with your own SlideShare account. Why not sign up to SlideShare today?

The Best Free SlideShare Templates

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Are you looking for a way to make your SlideShare presentations more eye-catching? Although the software is easy to use, it won’t help capture your audience’s attention if your presentation template is boring. While your content may be sound, a good template can make or break how others respond to it.

Many think that when it comes to aesthetics, free templates leave much to be desired. Since SlideShare is a content-sharing platform, users scour the internet searching for a template with a unique layout. The good news is, finding the perfect template doesn’t have to be complicated. Many websites have extensive libraries packed with beautiful designs that will take your presentations to the next level.

Keep reading to learn more.

The Benefits of Using Free Templates for SlideShare Presentations

Creating original slides from scratch is often challenging and time-consuming.

Say you’ve seen a well-done presentation on SlideShare and want to mimic its style with your slides. Inspiration has struck; but how much time do you need to spend in bringing your vision to life?

If you have experience using design tools, you can quickly build a visually appealing presentation. But if you’re not a seasoned graphic designer, you’ll have to rely on the designs of others for inspiration. In that case, you’re glued to your screen for hours, wracking your brain about the appropriate font size, color, and alignment.

And that’s just the start. Next come more serious questions. Which background fits this foreground best? Should I add different icons to the new slides? These questions apply to only one slide. If the presentation covers a complex topic, you’ll likely need to build more than 10 or 20 slides.

If you’re in a time crunch and don’t have a knack for design, finding free templates for your presentation will make your SlideShare experience more enjoyable.

You won’t strain your budget downloading free templates. Premium options range from a few dollars to several hundred. Fortunately, many platforms offer free designs that are just as stunning, if not more so, as the paid-for templates.

Instead of spending days adding the finishing touches to the presentation, you can quickly use a free template and fill it in with the appropriate content.

There are countless free designs to choose from, and you can find an option that aligns with your message and needs. From marketing and e-commerce to business and education, these professional-looking templates will ensure your message shines through the slides.

You can even reuse them as much as you like, and create a distinct look that follows your brand name.

Free SlideShare Templates

Unsure where to find free templates? Many websites are dedicated to helping visitors hone their presentation-making skills and offer curated libraries full of beautiful designs. We’ve compiled a list of the best sites where you can download free SlideShare templates. Let’s dive in.

24Templates

This free platform is popular among the PowerPoint community due to its simple interface and versatile templates. It is open to all users looking for attractive templates with a professional edge who don’t want to break their bank. You’ll see hundreds of templates ready to download when you open the site.

Even if you haven’t heard of 24Templates before, you’ve probably seen its templates enhancing multiple SlideShare presentations. They’re handy for business presentations where attention to detail is crucial. The designs are excellent for presenting timelines, roadmaps, data sheets, graphs, and charts. The slides are customizable, and you can easily adjust them to fit your business’s purpose.

If you’re not making a business or corporate presentation, don’t write off 24Templates just yet. The templates allow you to quickly remove unnecessary elements, tweak their looks, and build a personalized layout. The slides come with engaging icons you can add to make sure your audience follows the presentation from start to finish.

Slides Carnival

Jimena Catalina, a visual designer from Spain, created Slides Carnival as a project that would help others build well-designed presentations. The templates are grouped into multiple categories: inspirational, formal, simple, startup, creative, playful, and more.

Each template comes with approximately 20 slides and free icons. The site currently boasts over 200 free-to-download options. They’re highly customizable, making editing a breeze, and you can use them for business and personal purposes. You can trust these designs to take care of the creative part of presenting and focus on communicating your message.

Thanks to Slides Carnival, you can highlight meaningful information without boring your audience with a basic-looking layout.

The Behance site is home to talented designers who are happy to share their skills with others. They upload templates to the platform, and their designs organize your content in an aesthetic and accessible way. No matter how complex the data is you’re presenting, the free Behance templates will make it easily digestible and wow the audience.

Their library is divided into different categories, allowing you to quickly download business, minimalist, education, professional, and formal templates. These are just the most popular categories. If searching for another theme, hop on the website and check out its other options.

Perhaps the best aspect of Behance templates is their versatility. They have several layouts, meaning you can repurpose a single template to build multiple presentations that make a lasting impression.

Note that some designers allow users to download their templates as long as they include a link to their site or Behance profile. Before using their work, remember to give credit where it’s due.

Graphic Panda

Graphic Panda hosts premium and free templates compatible with Keynote, PowerPoint, and Google Slides presentations. Their titles indicate which are free, and you can quickly browse the real estate, minimalist, health, and business collections. If you’re curious to try one of the platform’s premium options, the site will take you to a different marketplace.

Kata Ragastic is a graphic artist who launched the Slideist site to showcase her talent and designs to a broader audience. Although small, the library offers modern and polished templates with advanced features. After applying a Slideist template to your presentation, your friends and colleagues will believe you hired a professional artist to create the slides. The templates have multiple layouts you can adapt in no time to underscore meaningful content. You’ll even receive free fonts and an icon pack to elevate your presentation further.

Although Canva is primarily a graphic design tool, a free account lets you access its presentation-making features. The site is home to thousands of free templates, and you can build applause-worthy slides from your browser.

You can start with a blank page and add illustrations, icons, graphs, photos, and animations to spice up your presentation. Or, you could choose one of the free options and decorate it with the platform’s easy-to-use features.

Downloading your presentation takes only a few seconds, and when it goes live on SlideShare, it will mesmerize your target audience.

Another site with well-designed and captivating templates, All PPT has an impressive template collection ideal for school, business, entertainment, and event-planning purposes. The platform uploads new designs daily, and you can press the tags on the home page to access a specific theme. The templates are colorful and engaging and contain lively backgrounds, illustrations, graphics, and fonts.

While exploring their collection, make sure you’ve logged into your Google Drive account. The site is compatible with Google Drive and lets you preview the template without downloading the file to your local storage. A handy feature when deciding which design complements your presentation the most.

With the Right Template, Your Presentation Won’t Slide Away

Before you share your presentation on SlideShare, you need to frame your content in a visually appealing template. Its layout should help streamline the information better and captivate your audience. But remember that applying a well-designed template is only half the job. Include thought-provoking information and a call to action (CTA) so the audience thinks about your presentation for days.

Have you uploaded presentations to SlideShare before? Did you build your templates from scratch or download free designs? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Cooking is easy. The puzzle is figuring out what to eat. As soon as you know that, you can get started. The same holds for presentations. The sooner you can whip up a good, informative, and catchy topic, the easier the rest of the process becomes.

Pick a good topic that resonates with you and your audience to set a strong foundation. But select the wrong topic, and it becomes difficult to connect with your audience, find mutual interests, or hold their attention.

So, let’s learn how to develop thought-provoking and relevant topics for your presentations. You’ll also find some best practices to make your presentation memorable.

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4. Choose an appropriate presentation style.

There are many ways to present a topic. Your personality, the topic at hand, and your audience’s personas will help you determine which style would best fit you and your audience.

Select a presentation style that will communicate the main idea clearly and have a lasting impact on your audience.

For instance, explore a freeform style presenter by Sir Ken Robinson.

5. Engage with your audience.

Work on your presentation skills to make a strong connection with your audience, get through to them and leave a mark.

Think of the presenter as the link between the topic and the audience. A strong or a weak presenter can make a difference between a presentation being a thriving success or a boring failure.

Hone your skills by engaging and interacting with your audience. Make them feel like a part of the presentation and not just spectators. 70% of marketers have found presentations with interactive content to be more effective than those without.

Here are a few ways you can make your presentation interactive:

• Start your speech with uncommon questions to your audience. Involve them from the get-go, like ask to raise their hands if X.
• Make eye contact to build credibility and show confidence. Don’t stare at your slides or notes. Smile occasionally and talk to the audience directly.
• Have an active and confident body language. Don’t stand in the same place the entire time. Move around the stage.
• Don’t be monotonous. Speak as you would to a colleague — with enthusiasm.
• Ask close-ended questions in between to keep the audience engaged without losing time. Address them using their names to keep things interesting.
• Share personal experiences and stories that your audience will find fascinating and relatable.
• Practice thoroughly before you present so you’re fluent with the material and delivery.
• Energy and excitement can be quite contagious. Make sure you exude enough to spread some to your audience.

Feeling Inspired Yet?

Now you have all the right ingredients for choosing amazing topics and a hundred ideas to drive inspiration from. So, go ahead and start cooking presentations that will blow your audience away.

Don’t forget to choose a super-relevant topic and add meaty information. Do it with excitement to make it enjoyable for you and your audience. Best of luck!

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The best presentation software

What makes the best presentation app, how we evaluate and test apps.

When looking for the best presentation apps, I wanted utility players. After all, slideshows are used for just about everything, from pitch decks and product launches to class lectures and church sermons. With that in mind, here's what I was looking for:

Pre-built templates. The best presentation tools should have attractive, professional-looking templates to build presentations in a hurry.

Sharing and collaboration options. Whether you plan to share your webinar slides later, or you just want to collaborate with a coworker on a presentation, it should be easy to share files and collaborate in real-time.

Flexibility and customization options. Templates are great, but top presentation apps should enable you to customize just about everything—giving you the flexibility to build exactly what you need.

Affordability. Creating compelling presentations is important, but you shouldn't have to bust your budget to make it happen. With capable free tools on the market, affordability is a top consideration.

Standalone functionality. There's no reason to use multiple tools when one can do it all, so I didn't test any apps that require and work on top of another presentation app like PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Familiar, deck-based interface. For our purposes here, I only tested software that uses slides, with the familiar deck-based editor you expect from a "presentation" tool (versus, for example, a video creation app).

Beyond that, I also looked for presentation apps that brought something unique to the table—features above and beyond what you can get for free from a legacy solution like PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Here's what my testing workflow looked like:

I went through any onboarding or guided tutorials.

I created a new deck, scanning through all available templates, noting how well-designed they were (and which were free versus paid).

I added new slides, deleted slides, edited text and images, and played around with other content types.

I changed presentation design settings, like color schemes and background images.

I reviewed and tested the sharing and collaboration options.

I tested out presenter view (when available).

After my first round of testing, I went back into the top performers to test any unique or niche features, like AI, brand settings, and interactive content. With that, these are the best presentation apps I found—each one really brings something different or radically easy to the table.

The best presentation software at a glance

The best free presentation software

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Canva pros:

Excellent free plan

Tons of amazing templates for all use cases

Feature-rich

Canva cons:

The AI tools aren't groundbreakingly useful

Canva offers one of the most robust free plans of all the presentation apps I tested. The app delays account creation until after you've created your first design, so you can get started building your presentation in seconds. Choose from an almost overwhelming number of beautiful templates (nearly all available for free), including those designed specifically for education or business use cases.

Anyone who's accidentally scrolled too far and been bumped to the next slide will appreciate Canva's editor interface, which eliminates that problem altogether with a smooth scroll that doesn't jump around. Choose from a handful of preset animations to add life to your presentations, or browse the library of audio and video files available to add. And Canva also has a number of options for sharing your presentation, including adding collaborators to your team, sharing directly to social media, and even via QR code.

Present directly from Canva, and let audience members submit their questions via Canva Live. Once you share a link to invite audience members to your presentation, they can send questions for you to answer. As the presenter, you'll see them pop up in your presenter view window, so you can keep the audience engaged and your presentation clear. Alternatively, record a presentation with a talking head bubble—you can even use an AI presenter here—to share remotely.

Canva pricing: Free plan available; paid plans start at $120/year for 1 user and include additional features like Brand Kit, premium templates and stock assets, and additional AI-powered design tools.

The best presentation app for AI-powered design

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Beautiful.ai pros:

True AI design

No fussing around with alignment

Still allows for customization

Beautiful.ai cons:

No free plan

If you're like me, editing granular spacing issues is the absolute worst part of building a presentation. Beautiful.ai uses artificial intelligence to take a lot of the hassle and granular design requirements out of the presentation process, so you can focus on the content of a presentation without sacrificing professional design. If I needed to make presentations on a regular basis, this is the app I'd use.

Many apps have recently added AI design features, but Beautiful.ai has been doing it for years—and they've perfected the experience of AI design, ensuring the tool's reign as the most streamlined and user-friendly option for AI design.

The editor is a little different from most presentation apps, but it's still intuitive—and you'll start off with a quick two-minute tutorial. When creating a new slide, scroll through "inspiration slides" to find a layout you like; once you choose, the app will pull the layout and automatically adapt it to match the design of the rest of your presentation.

With 10 themes, several templated slides, over 40 fully-designed templates, and more than 20 different color palettes to choose from, Beautiful.ai strikes a perfect balance between automation and customization.

While Beautiful.ai doesn't offer a free plan, paid plans are reasonably priced and offer sharing and collaboration options that rival collab-focused apps like Google Slides. And speaking of Google, you can connect Beautiful.ai with Google Drive to save all your presentations there.

Note: I re-tested the generative AI feature (called DesignerBot) this year. It's great for adding individual slides to an existing presentation—automatically choosing the best layout and matching the design to the rest of the deck—but as with most other apps, it struggled to pull in relevant images.

Beautiful.ai pricing: Plans start at $12/month for unlimited slides, AI content generation, viewer analytics, and more. Upgrade to a Team plan for $40/user/month to get extra collaboration and workspace features and custom brand controls.

The best presentation app for conversational presentations

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Prezi pros:

Doesn't restrict you to standard presentation structure

Lots of customization options

Prezi Video lets you display a presentation right over your webcam video

Prezi cons:

Steep learning curve

Struggling to squeeze information into a basic, linear presentation? Give Prezi a try. Unlike nearly all other presentation apps on the market, Prezi Present doesn't restrict the structure of your presentation to a straight line. The editor focuses on topics and subtopics and allows you to arrange them any way you want, so you can create a more conversational flow of information.

With the structural flexibility, you still get all the same customization features you expect from top presentation software, including fully-editable templates. There's a learning curve if you're unfamiliar with non-linear presentations, but templates offer a great jumping-off point, and Prezi's editor does a good job of making the process more approachable.

Plus, Prezi comes with two other apps: Prezi Design and Prezi Video. Prezi Video helps you take remote presentations to a new level. You can record a video where the presentation elements are displayed right over your webcam feed. Record and save the video to share later, or connect with your video conferencing tool of choice (including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet) to present live.

Prezi's generative AI feature works ok, but it's more useful as a wireframe. When I asked it to create a presentation about the Stanley Cup Playoffs, for example, the resulting content read a lot like a student writing a term paper in the broadest strokes possible to avoid doing any actual research.

The best presentation app for video presentations

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Powtoon pros:

Timing automatically changes based on the content on the slide

Can toggle between slideshow and video

Can orient presentation as horizontal, vertical, or square

Powtoon cons:

Limited free plan

Powtoon makes it easy to create engaging videos by orienting the editor around a slide deck. Editing a Powtoon feels just like editing a presentation, but by the time you finish, you have a professional video. 

You can edit your slides at any time, and when you hit play, a video plays through your deck—the feel is almost like an animated explainer video. Each slide includes the animations you choose and takes up as much time as is needed based on the content on the slide. Powtoon figures the timing automatically, and you can see in the bottom-right of the editor how much time is used on your current slide versus the total presentation. If you ever want to present as a slide deck, just toggle between Slideshow and Movie.

You'll likely need to subscribe to a paid plan to get the most out of Powtoon—like creating videos longer than three minutes, downloading them as MP4 files, and white-labeling your presentations—but doing so won't break the bank. Plus, you'll unlock tons of templates complete with animations and soundtracks.

One of my favorite Powtoon features is the ability to orient your video: you can choose horizontal orientation (like a normal presentation) or opt for vertical (for mobile) or square (for social media). When your presentation is ready, you can publish straight to YouTube, Wistia, Facebook Ads, and any number of other locations.

The best presentation app for collaborating with your team

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Pitch pros:

Google levels of collaboration

Assign slides to specific team members

Excellent generative AI feature

Pitch cons:

User interface is a little different than you're used to

Need to collaborate on presentations with your team? Pitch is a Google Slides alternative that gets the job done. As far as decks go, Pitch includes all the beautifully-designed templates, customizability, and ease of use you expect from a top-notch presentation tool. But the app really shines when you add your team.

The right-hand sidebar is all about project management and collaboration: you can set and update the status of your deck, assign entire presentations or individual slides to team members, plus comment or add notes. Save custom templates to make future presentations even easier and faster.

You can also invite collaborators from outside your company to work with you on individual decks. And if you opt for a paid plan, Pitch introduces workspace roles, shared private folders, and version history.

Pitch also offers one of the most impressive generative AI features on this list. It still struggles to pull in relevant images, but I found the AI-generated written content and design to be top-notch.

The best presentation app for conversational AI

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Gamma pros:

Creates fully fleshed-out presentations from a prompt

Conversational chatbot-like experience

Can still manually edit the presentation

Gamma cons:

Not as much granular customization

I tested a lot of apps claiming to use AI to up your presentation game, and Gamma's conversational AI features were head and shoulders above the crowd.

Simply give the app a topic—or upload an outline, notes, or any other document or article—approve the outline, and pick a theme. The app will take it from there and create a fully fleshed-out presentation. It's far from perfect, but Gamma produces a very useful jumping-off point. (Last year, it was by far the best, but this year, other apps are catching up.)

Here's the key: Gamma is much more geared toward the iterative, chatbot experience familiar to ChatGPT users. Click on the Edit with AI button at the top of the right-hand menu to open the chat, and you'll see suggested prompts—or you can type in your own requests for how Gamma should alter the presentation.

Once you've done all you can with prompts, simply close the chat box to manually add the finishing touches. While you do sacrifice some granular customizability in exchange for the AI features, you can still choose your visual theme, change slide layouts, format text, and add any images, videos, or even app and web content.

The best presentation app for audience engagement

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Mentimeter pros:

Tons of audience engagement features

Simple for participants to interact

Mentimeter cons:

Less granular customizability

Bit of a learning curve

If you need to engage with an audience during your presentation, Mentimeter makes that easy. The app is designed around interactive elements like quizzes, surveys, Q&As, sliders, and more (even a Miro whiteboard!).

Each of these is included in a number of different, professional-looking templates, so you can build a fully interactive presentation super quickly.

When it's time to present, your audience members can scan the QR code with their phone cameras or type in the URL and access code to participate. There's one code per presentation (so they won't have to do this on every slide), which gives access to each slide as you move through the presentation.

There are two main drawbacks to this one, though. First, there's a bit of a learning curve and less familiar editing interface (but I found it pretty easy to learn with some practice). The other drawback is that you can't get as granular with the visual customization as you can with many other presentation tools.

The best presentation app for generative AI

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Top-tier generative AI features

Simple, customizable templates

Intuitive doc-style editor

There's definitely a learning curve

Tome is one of the new additions to this list that I'm most excited about. If you're looking for generative AI that just genuinely works , it's definitely worth a look. The editor is a bit more stripped down than most presentation apps but intuitive nonetheless—it's almost a cross between your standard deck editor and a Notion-style doc.

To generate an AI deck, click Generate with AI in the top right, and either write your own prompt or choose from the example prompts that cover a handful of common use cases, like sales enablement and company pitches. Edit or approve the suggested outline, then generate the full presentation.

From there, you can edit each slide as a doc via the right-hand menu—without limits on how much information you can include. During the presentation, you simply size down any slides that take up more than the standard amount of space. It's super simple but somehow feels revolutionary in a presentation app.

What about the old standbys?

You might notice a few major presentation players aren't on this list, including OGs Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and Google Slides. These apps are perfectly adequate for creating basic presentations, and they're free if you have a Windows or Mac device or a Google account.

I didn't include them on the list because the presentation space has really developed in the last several years, and after testing them out, I found these behemoths haven't kept pace. If they weren't made by Microsoft/Apple/Google, I might not even be mentioning them. They're pretty basic tools, they're behind the curve when it comes to templates (both quantity and design), and they don't offer any uniquely valuable features like robust team collaboration, branding controls, video, and so on.

In any case, if you're reading this, you're probably looking for an alternative that allows you to move away from one of the big 3, and as the presentation platforms featured above show, there's a ton to gain—in terms of features, usability, and more—when you do.

What about PowerPoint and Google Slides add-ons?

While I focused my testing on tools with full feature-sets—those that can serve as your sole presentation tool—there are a ton of add-on tools you can use atop big name tools like PowerPoint and Google Slides.

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This post was originally published in October 2014 and has since been updated with contributions from Danny Schreiber, Matthew Guay, Andrew Kunesh, and Krystina Martinez. The most recent update was in April 2024.

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Kiera Abbamonte

Kiera’s a content writer who helps SaaS and eCommerce companies connect with customers and reach new audiences. Located in Boston, MA, she loves cinnamon coffee and a good baseball game. Catch up with her on Twitter @Kieraabbamonte.

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