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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

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