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Tools like Keynote, PowerPoint, and Prezi can help you create new slide decks quickly.
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Now, if you are giving a presentation and
you want to put together a
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slide deck, I highly recommend considering
the
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two biggest apps in the industry today.
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You've got PowerPoint and Keynote.
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Each one of these has tons of different
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features that make putting together slide
decks pretty nice.
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Even a mobile version that can help you
bring your slide decks with you.
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Keynote is available
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for free on new Macs.
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I think on older Macs, it's about 20
bucks.
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And the cost for PowerPoint varies
depending on
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the Microsoft Office package that you end
up getting.
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Now if you want to try something new
however, Prezi at prezi.com is an online
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presentation maker that allows you to
design
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everything online and store it there as
well.
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Just like Keynote and PowerPoint get lots
of features.
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And in fact, I wanna sort of kick out
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there right now and just do a quick live
demo
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of a presentation that I threw together
real fast just
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to give you an idea of what it looks like.
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So, again, it's prezi.com.
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If we jump into this presentation here,
you'll see,
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alright, let's have a quick look at this
tool.
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Now, one of the first things you're gonna
see is that it's got really cool
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animation effects.
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It's as if all the slides exist on a, on a
space right there instead of just the
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classic, you know, here's a slide, here's
the next slide, here's the next slide.
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It gives it a nice physical effect to it.
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Now in addition to the cool animation
effects, they have
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lots of templates just like the other
tools, Keynote and PowerPoint.
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They have different color schemes, and you
can modify almost
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everything within the the template.
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Online is, you know, where you can find
this tool.
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You can create and store these
presentations online.
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You can even embed YouTube videos and, you
know, this is cool.
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I'm not gonna play this here, but it'll
start playing and, you know, it's a nice
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little extra when you have some of that
multimedia that you wanna feature.
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But I know sometimes
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in, in older tools, it's a little clugey
and maybe it might suck up some
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of the bandwidth and, and computing power
on whatever device you've got.
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To be able to pull that stuff from YouTube
is pretty nice.
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So prezi.com, that's something that I
recommend to all of you if
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you are doing presentations or, or if you
anticipate that you might do
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a presentation some time in the future.
It's worth checking out.
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It's free to use and there are some paid
options as well, depending on your needs.
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So PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi.
Give those a look.
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