Comments on: Kashi’s Slideument – Whole Grain Confusion

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:04:02 +0000

Thanks. I agree. Sliderocket can be very useful as a tool, but like you said, this isn’t case where any benefits are gained.

By: TaoBear

TaoBear — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:26:01 +0000

Well, there’s nothing like being several months late to a conversation, but I figured I’d chime in with my thoughts.

It may be an interesting use of SlideRocket, but I don’t see any way in which this is superior to something like a PDF.

I can’t zoom. Even at fullscreen, I have trouble reading some of the information on small monitors. Is it easy to print a single page if I want one? Can I search the text?

When you’re looking at how to use a tool, shouldn’t we look at what fits our needs best rather than applauding innovation simply for innovation?

What are the advantage of using SlideRocket over a PDF?

By: 7 Unusual Uses for Presentations | SlideRocket Online Presentation Software

7 Unusual Uses for Presentations | SlideRocket Online Presentation Software — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:38:38 +0000

[...] A couple of weeks ago I got involved in a debate with Nathan Cashion of Brain Slides about a really impressive presentation created by one of SlideRocket’s customers, Kashi Foods. You can watch Kashi’s presentation and read Nathan’s post and related comments here. [...]

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:41:49 +0000

Hey Miriam, thanks for your comment. What you've mentioned is one possible exception I didn't take time to discuss. A lot of times I would say, yeah stick with the blog post. But, there certainly are cases where a presentation is intended to stand on it's own – particularly on the web – and must include enough detail to be understood. I've created a presentation like this myself recently: Burn Your PowerPoints. A narration, text bubbles, or text narration work well, as long as they're distributed amongst the slides. So I don't think we disagree. My real problem the Kashi document was that it was not created to be presented as slides, but created as a document and then just inserted into slides. I think I clarified this in a follow up post.

By: Miriam Boon

Miriam Boon — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:47:21 +0000

I’m not entirely certain I agree with your perspective on this. When I last uploaded a slideshow to SlideShare, I quickly realized that it doesn’t stand alone; readers would not be able to follow the content if I left it the way it was for the presentation (lots of pictures, very little writing, with most of the information coming verbally).

I could have done a voice over, but I elected to edit the slides to add in more text, making them more self-explanatory. In a few places, I put prose text in a speech bubble, to indicate that it is what I would have said.

If I understand your perspective correctly, you would say that I should have just produced a blog post or paper on the same topic, rather than trying to create a slideshow that could stand alone.

Is that right?