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Here is a funny and insightful video lesson from a comedian on some of the common mistakes people make when creating and presenting Powerpoint presentations. This is gold!

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Here is a Slideshare Presentation on their annual Presentation Competition. Past winners include Meet Henry and Shift Happens. Follow the links in the presentation for more information or to enter.

Google Blogoscoped reports Google has released Google Presentations as part of Google Docs.

This provides a way to build a presentation online, with a system familiar to anyone who uses Powerpoint. Due to the application being web-based, the presentations can be easily shared, allowing collaboration in building the presentation. Of course there is also a way to publish and share the presentation online once it is complete.

Perhaps don’t rush to share it just yet - they also report a security flaw which introduces Privacy Problems Introduced Google Through Presentations. Check the comments on that post to see when the issue is resolved.

How I Built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09

Slideshare presentation on the numbers behind Truemors.

Some history now … Steve Jobs announcing the Apple Macintosh in 1984 …

And in 2007 Steve Jobs announcing the iPhone …

Here is a list of books from Amazon to get you started creating great presentations …

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds
Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations by Garr Reynolds
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
The Presentation Zen Way: Video Lessons on Simple Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo
Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire by Cliff Atkinson
How to Wow with PowerPoint by Richard Harrington
Cutting Edge PowerPoint For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Geetesh Bajaj
Solving the PowerPoint Predicament: Using Digital Media for Effective Communication by Tom Bunzel

View full details of the books here:
Great Presentation Books

Tips on improving Powerpoint Presentations: Death by PowerPoint

The Brand Gap

Fantastic Pictures

Not really a presentations - but some cool images nonetheless.

Find Great Business Presentation Examples

What is The Presentation Examples Blog all about?

We all need some inspiration for business presentations. With Youtube and Google Video there are lots of business presentation examples to learn from.

Learn how to improve your business presentations by watching the pros at The Presentation Examples Blog.

Here are some good examples of web-based presentations using Slideshare’s audio feature. The slides punctuates and complements the presentation audio nicely. Great uses of stock images.

Another Slideshare contest winner. Meet Henry tells a story and communicates in a bold and simple way.

Meet Henry. He doesn’t know any better.

Today we live in a business culture that abuses the art and science of public speaking. It’s a culture where PowerPoint is the norm, reading from you slides is accepted, and wasting everyone’s time is a given. When you think about it, it’s really quite disturbing.

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