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ideabreaker executive slidecast

As one of the last in a long series of hoops that we have had to jump through in the VenCorps showdown, we were charged with uploading a 10-20-30 powerpoint presentation.  A couple of things jumped out at me right away:  We are to use slideshare, so 10 slides with no animation would equal roughly 3 minutes worth of viewing hence negating the 20.  A twenty minute slideshow would require around 90 slides in this context hence negating the 10.  It seemed that the only thing that would be a constant was the 30 pt font.  In lieu of this, I made a 43 slide presentation that mimicked animation using 10 master slides.  I then walked through the presentation and recoreded the “pitch”, converted it to mp3 and stored it on archive.org.  I had the makings of my first slide cast.  4 hours later the results are in.  I feel as though this is the happiest medium and a worthy compromise.  Just ignore the number 43 in the lower lefthand corner and it really does look and feel like 10.  Mr Kawasaki would be proud.

July 17, 2008 Posted by ideabreaker | Uncategorized | | No Comments Yet