Last week, the crew at Slideshare noticed that my online slideshows were being ‘noticed’ by more and more people. So they sent me this email titled “You’re a SlideShare Rockstar” … “Hi GeoffBrown3231, We’ve noticed that your slideshow on SlideShare has been getting a LOT of views in the last 24 hours. Great job … you must be doing something right. 😉 Why don’t you tweet or blog this? Use the hashtag #bestofslideshare so we can track the conversation. Congratulations – SlideShare Team” Well! With my ego well and truely ‘tickled’, I then noticed that heaps of people were ‘favourite-ing’ …

Viv McWaters and I have created a brand new training program on how to make Insanely Great Slideshow Presentations. Insanely Great Slideshows View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Where did the training program come from? Over the past few years, I have had many discussions with Viv about the Powerpoint presentations that we observe in our facilitation work. Given our role is about group ‘process’, we are in a unique position to analyse the effectiveness of the presentations we see. Why? We do not suffer from the CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE that comes from working inside the ‘content’ of the …

A friend of mine just sent me this presentation … it is a great example of the ‘exponential change’ and the ‘revolution’ that is happening right now! Shift Happens View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: sociology future) Karl Fisch at the Fischbowl blog wrote this about this sliedshow and the remixed version that he created: “A while back Scott McLeod, Jeff Brenman (who did the Slideshare version) and I received an email from someone at Sony BMG Music Entertainment asking us if they could remix the various versions of Did You Know? for a meeting they had coming …

Here is another example of using Slideshare to communicate. This slideshow is designed to bring specific aspects of a proposal to life with images and pictures. Each figure supports text in the proposal. I used Comic Life to create the images & captions and then inserted them into Powerpoint and then uploaded to slideshare. Tip = View in Full Screen mode. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: open space) I’ll update you on how this was received by my client. Cheers Geoff

The crew at slideshare have just announced the winners of the World Best Presentation Competition. The judges include Garr Reynolds and Nancy Durate, 2 of the best. So if you do not even read Garr and Nancy’s books … at least take the time to click through these presentations and figure out for yourself why they are so good. I have added some points at the bottom of this post. Remember, that if these were to be delivered to an audience, the presenter may even remove more words from the few that exist now. THIRST View SlideShare presentation or Upload …