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.

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”.

First Place: Smoke – The Convenient Truth

created by Empowered Presentations from Hawaii using Apple Keynote

This presentation reminds me of the presentation that won a couple of years ago, titled “Shift Happens” .  It’s a format that works very well for presentation that are posted on websites and are self-presenting.  I particularly like the alternating black and white background, the clever choice of images to show statistics in a powerful way, and the clean large font.

Second Place: You Suck at PowerPoint

created by GlobalGossip from Canada

I agree with all the suggestions in this presentation but I would be very careful in choosing fonts that are not standard on most personal computers.  Though they make look nice, they may not travel well. Make sure you embed them in the presentation and check how they look on the target pc. If you are interested in more font ideas from presentation, take a look at this post from Pierre Morsa who shows 10 classic fonts for presentations.

Third Place: Social Media for Business

created by Presentation Advisors from the USA

Another excellent presentation, take a look at slide 30 to see an alternative way of designing a bullet list: no bullets and right alignment.

There were also winners by category, which you can see in this article.

Congratulations to all the winners!

You might like to take a look at winners from past years. Here are the links:

2007 SlideShare Contest Winners

2008 SlideShare Contest Winners

2009 SlideShare Contest Winners

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If you want to show a lot of data, spread it out onto multiple slides, with one key message per slide.

The slide shown above comes from a recent seminar.   Too many bits of information on a single slide dilute the message.  In addition, the slanted writing in the background also competes with the data for attention.

If you are not familiar with Garr Reynolds and his presentation zen blog/books, take a look at some of his great examples of having just one key message per slide.  His books are listed in the right column with other reading suggestions.

The actual text displayed does not need to be the exact URL, it can be anything you want, even multiple words, and generally the http prefix is taken away for aesthetic reasons. But if the hyperlink is active and functioning in PowerPoint, it will also be active in Slideshare.  Remember that just typing a website address such as lesswire.it in one of your presentation slides will not necessarily  turn it into a hyperlink.  PowerPoint does not know you want a hyperlink unless it sees the http prefix or it can intepret a www prefix.   But you can add the hyperlink yourself to any text by first selecting it and then using the Insert / Hyperlink command.

The same method can be applied to a PowerPoint object, like a rectangle or an image.  Just select the object and use the Insert/Hyperlink command.  This can be useful to place icons with links to your Twitter, Facebook and other social network pages.

Here are a couple of very simple example slides posted to Slideshare.  You can move your mouse pointer to see which pieces of text and which objects have a hyperlink attached, and you can test the links by clicking on them.   The third page has sample social network icons with links, a great idea for the first or last slide of a presentation deck.