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Shufflrr's James Ontra Explains Why a Presentation Management Strategy is a Good Idea Image courtesy of Shufflrr LLC We all do presentations but how many times do you feel they were "one offs"? The "one offs" are the presentations created for a specific conference, a specific presentation for a client or just one to promote yourself or business. In bigger organizations that I have been in, the presentation creation flow was this: (1) product marketing would produce what we call the "deck of slides" and the "recommended" order of presenting. (2) I would go out to the field and find out from our local sales team what they believe the client wants to hear this. (3) I will rearrange the slide deck and present to a room of c-level executives only to find out there was no interaction (4)  From the time of exiting the meeting to the next presentation, I was always wondering what happened and how would I feedback my thoughts back to the hea...

Two Startups Share Their Vision for the Future of Presentations Tech Presentation in SF (courtesy of 360 Fashion Network) Digital presentations seemed to have stayed the same over the years. Only the hardware (projector and computer) has ever changed - smaller, faster, cheaper. Why? A few reasons. The digital version copied the previous way that presentations were delivered - slide projector(now digital) and transparent slides(now our computer). Secondly, we see the presentation as a conversation starter. So as long as the conversation was started, a subsequent conversation about the sale could continue. We saw a modest bump on the presentation side with cloud-based  Prezi in 2009 where creative and audience captivating displays were created. But the assembly of presentations (back-end) and the delivery of presentations (front-end) has remained virtually stagnant since the launch of PowerPoint in 1990.  Enter two startups who are looking at presentations from 21st ...