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October 05, 2005
Using Blogs for Presentations
Between html pages and blogs, PowerPoint is losing market share quickly. Steven points us to Cindy Chick's post about using blogs as presentation media. I totally agree with using blogs or html pages for presentations (and plan on doing so myself for upcoming conference presentations).
LawLib Tech has a two-part series on blogs as presentation media as well: Part I and Part II.
However (& it's a big however), as both resources point out, you need a live internet connection to use either of those, while PowerPoint can run internet-free. I've been too many places where I've been assured there will be a connection, and there isn't one. Woe be to the librarian who doesn't have a back-up plan.
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I just started using S5, and it's quite easy to figure out and flexible, as you point out, shelly. And yes, back-ups...lots and lots of back-ups.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton (LiB) | October13, 2005
ooh - forgot to mention this, too - a presentation from the NMC summer conference about using blogs for presentations.
http://cat-diaries.blogspot.com/
a great presentation from Alan Levine of Feed2JS fame - all blogger.com.
Posted by: shelly | October11, 2005
I used S5 recently and was extremely happy with it. flexible and clean, and extremely easy to put together.
http://www.drumm.info/presentations/rss_cms/
i learned about it from librarian.net (http://www.librarian.net/stax/1286)
and of course - lots of backups! live site, flash drives, cds, etc. though - if a bulb had blown, I would have been up a creek!
Posted by: shelly | October11, 2005
I've heard (but not tested yet) about s5 [http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/] as an alternative to .ppt.
Posted by: Marlène | October10, 2005
That's very true Ab...there's no reason you couldn't store all the files on your local machine or device. Thank you for pointing that out.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton | October 9, 2005
I disagree about the necessity of having a live connection for HTML pages. I have copied my HTML pages and any associated images to a floppy, CD, or flash drive and used them as backup or, in cases where I know I won't have a live connection, as the primary presentation. It's worked well so far.
Posted by: Ab | October 6, 2005
I always try to be prepared. I have a copy of my presentation on my website, I email it to the client, I'll take a copy on my memory stick and if I have time I'll burn it to CD. Couple of weeks ago I went to do a training session, and ten minutes in the bulb on the projector died, and they didn't have another one! Maybe I also need to write it all out onto a flip chart and take that as well...
Posted by: Phil Bradley | October 6, 2005
