Which tool do you use for making a presentation?

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Being in this field or any other field, presenting the ideas, strategy, and goals effectively are really necessary for us, and for that, we need an effective presentation that attracts the audience and helps us to deliver it the way we want it to be delivered.

Some people say that the slides should be too simple and animation free and other stuff. But I think that is too boring. According to me, for an effective presentation, we need an effective theme, visual aids, charts that show statistics, and also smooth animations for the transition.

Google slides, LibreOffice Impress and Microsoft PowerPoint are very nice tools to create a presentation, But I found a nicer tool with very rich functionalities that I like very much and that tool is Prezi.

See a few samples in the following videos

I am using Prezi for more than 7 years. It also provides a very cool feature which is the Prezi video. It also has many video themes with the presentation props as shown in the following gif.

This way, you can effectively record your session and then can share it with anyone.

I got appreciation many times from the audience for my presentation and they also have asked what I have used to create such an effective and beautiful presentation!

So, Which tool you use for the presentation?

Happy presenting!

Top comments (17)

E. Choroba • Dec 14 '20

I usually use slidy from W3C. It's HTML with CSS (plus some JavaScript you don't need to touch), so you can use git to store the slides and styles to track your progress. Over the years, I've written several tools to include code and the code's output to the slides, to syntax-highlight code, etc.

Maulik • Dec 15 '20

Just checked it out, it's great. Thanks

mike • Dec 28 '20

Sorry if I'm late to the show. I'm a big fan of Notion and recently used Notion + Wunderpresentation to create interactive slides, using markup in the Notion. It was the fastest ever way to get it done and if I needed to edit them.

Jason C. McDonald • Dec 14 '20

I usually just use LibreOffice Impress. My public speaking professor in college taught us the "six by six" rule: no more than six bullet points per slide, and no more than six words per bullet point. (And PLEASE do NOT read the darned thing aloud!) I've never had a problem with slide decks as a result.

The last talk I gave, though, I just used Visual Studio Code, with the few quotes or outline points I needed written in Python source code files. It was pretty well received.

Bonus: This past July, I watched Naomi Ceder give a presentation at EuroPython where she used greenscreen Zoom background photos for all of her "slides". It was quite impressive!

LauraJonees • Jun 29 '21 • Edited

Hey! Most of the time I use Google Slides for making presentations, it is easiest to find themes for this tool. I love making beautiful presentations, so I always find services like masterbundles.com/cute-google-slid... where I can find many discounts and other useful resources. For example, here you can find resources from which you can download cute google slides themes.

joshbrowne • Apr 30 '21 • Edited

I use the already proven version - PTP. In fact, in the preparation of presentations, it is not so much the various effects that are important, but the content of the presentation that is important. It is also essential to communicate with the audience and ask questions. You also need to make an interactive presentation: insert links, videos, and other materials into your presentation. This will allow you to keep their attention on you and on your display. I always use these basic rules, and my presentations always make a good impression in meetings.