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Five ways to use QR codes in your presentations

16 February 2011 · 8 Comments »

QR Codes (like the one below) go hand-in-hand with smartphones and mobile users.

Can they also be used in presentations?

Here are my five suggestions for presenters, trainers, teachers and speakers who want to start using their own QR Codes:

  1. Insert a QR Code on the last slide of your presentation which includes a link to your contact information (a Vcard) or Linkedin profile
  2. Insert a QR Code on a slide with a link to the current presentation on Slideshare or to your profile on Slideshare
  3. Insert a QR Code on a slide that links to a special offer or bonus materials only for participants
  4. Add value to the course participant handouts by inserting QR Codes with links to specific multimedia resources
  5. Insert a QR Code on a slide or handout pointing to a feeback form or participant survey.

QR codes are easy to make and easy to read,  but it’s important that any internet content they point to is appropriate for viewing on a mobile device.

Have you come across any other ways of using QR codes in presentations?

If you don’t have a Smartphone but wish to see what appears on an iPhone when you read the QR Code above,  here is the screen capture of the link to my Linkedin profile:

Linkedin profile for Alessandra on iPhone

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Slidecoaching.com page on Facebook

31 January 2011 · Leave a comment »

This short post is to let my readers know that my Facebook page is now active. You can find it by searching for “Slidecoaching” on Facebook or clicking this link:  Slidecoaching.com on Facebook or the banner below.
It will contain interesting links from around the web which are useful to presenters, in addition to my favorite Twitter tweets and my blog postings.

SlideCoaching.com

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The spirit of 2010 in presentations, searches and social media

13 January 2011 · 1 Comment »

It’s Zeitgeist time!

Take a look at this presentation from the SlideShare team that shows statistics elaborated from all the presentations that were loaded on SlideShare in 2010.

Use this link to view the presentation on mobile browsers without Flash: http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/slideshare-zeitgeist-2010
You may wonder what the situation was like a year ago. Well, last  year a similar presentation was posted, I have embedded it below, and you can scroll slide by slide on each one to compare the data.

Some interesting observations:

  1. Presentations still average around 19 slides (the two above average 19 as well!)
  2. Japanese presentations on average are the longest (42 slides) and English are the shortest.
  3. More font variety: Arial and Times New Roman appear a bit less in 2010 vs. 2009.
  4. Software has been upgraded: Presentations prepared in Powerpoint 2007/2010  format (PPTX) are now 30% vs. 17% for the previous year.
  5. No noticeable increase in the number of Apple Keynote presentations, though it is used a lot to make the most liked presentations.
In looking back at the year that has just gone by, it’s also interesting to watch the Google Zeitgeist for 2010  presented in this video:

It’s practically a  news summary for 2010. Have you searched for these terms too in the past year?

One more, how could I forget Facebook?

Here is a video of what was popular on Facebook in 2010:

If you are on Twitter (I am @slidecoach on Twitter, by the way), you can check out a site which reviews Twitter happenings in 2010.

p.s.

Zeitgeist means “the spirit of”.

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