Slideshare and Google Slides help move your PowerPoint presentation across a group and upload your slides onto your website. Many of these newer options help you get your slides into YouTube where they can be shared publicly. Getting onto YouTube means your client presentation could be seen beyond those who attend your events such as your marketing list.
Before you power up PowerPoint for your next presentation you may want to think again. Not only are other options out there for communicating with your clients but your competition may be using them. We’ve run through not only a handful of the best alternatives to Powerpoint but also how they can help you communicate with new audiences.
If you are asking “What alternatives to PowerPoint?” you may want take a seat while we dim the lights and besiege you with intricate details about something you may only be tangentially familiar with by flashing static words on a screen for 45 minutes. Instead, we could use an interactive landing page to compare options, moving from one topic back to another in an easy to follow pattern. Or we could provide an animated flow through of various options and easy to see how they work. Sound good? Now you understand why PowerPoint may not fit every presentation.
Options other than Powerpoint include Prezi, Haiku Deck, Visme, Pickit, Focusky, and Slidebean. Prezi reports that people consider its presentations to be more organized, engaging, and importantly, 25% more effective. Prezi focuses on the visual aspect of presenting information, whereas PowerPoint focuses on content - it’s mostly driven by words on the page. Prezi also allows for more of a narrative presentation – highlighting story aspects to your information, rather than specifics. This helps keep your audience’s attention. Prezi also focuses on the interplay between the information – allowing your audience to stay engaged with the material instead of glossing over details after fatigue sets in. The main difference between PowerPoint and its new competitors, like Prezi, is that they avoid the linear approach (think page after page) and focus on interaction between slides.
Focusky allows users to create animated presentations and to help map or brainstorm ideas. This software also allows for rotation of elements in the presentation. It also has a library of characters that you can use in your presentation.
If you don’t want to stray too far from PowerPoint but do want to up your game on your presentations, consider Apple’s Keynote, which helps create design heavy slides. Apple’s software edge has always been that they outshine their competitors in terms of helping you create a polished product, but the process can sometimes feel too constrained in terms of customization. Keynote, like GoogleSlides is available online as a software on demand program.
Slideshare and Google Slides help move your PowerPoint presentation across a group and upload your slides onto your website. Many of these newer options help you get your slides into YouTube where they can be shared publicly. Getting onto YouTube means your client presentation could be seen beyond those who attend your events such as your marketing list. Google Slides provides an online software platform for creating slides. Its drawback is that it has more limited features than PowerPoint and may feel a little inflexible due to that.
If less customization sounds like exactly the right thing for your approach, consider Visme, which automatically converts your content into different formats. While the automatic conversion may lack customization, it can save you a lot of time.
Glisser takes the presentation off the overhead screen and onto your audiences’ devices in real-time. To do so, it uses either a PowerPoint slide or a PDF (Acrobat) file. But it allows for audiences to interact with the presentation through polls, notes and questions. Glisser can even help you learn which portions of your presentation have the most audience engagement to help you continue to evolve your presentations.
Before leaping into the unknown, we recommend a thorough examination of your plan. Because we are experts in the field, we know the marketplace and know what your existing vendor is capable of offering. Through this examination, we can help you optimize the service you receive.
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