Presentations – creating and sharing online

One of the effects of the social web is the increased need for communicators to share their thoughts and work and make them available to various people across the web and the world. A series of platform have therefore emerged. Websites like Slideshare for example enable users to upload, share, embed, index and search presentations based on tags.

Issuu for example presents similar features but promises to turn the uploaded documents into “beautiful online publications”. For elaborate conference papers or research results this is a great site to use. 

Tilestack and Prezi have their own take on making a presentation interesting. The first invites the user to create interactive presentations and games. The latter offers a set platform and plenty of customization choices. I, for one, am more inclined to use Prezi for conference presentations, Issuu for special documents and Slideshare for work related presentations I need to be embedded in my LinkedIn profile. 

Sources: Mashable, TechCrunch, AndyMiah

“strange but true”

I have quite a number of books from the library, all about the Olympics, that I intend to read during the holiday. While I was skimming through one of them (GIFFORD, C. (2004) Olympics – The Definitive Guide to the Greatest Sports Celebration in the World, London, Kingfisher) I found this:  

 ”Australian Henry Pearce was so dominant in the 1928 single sculls rowing event that he stopped to let a line of ducks pass, before continuing his rowing to win gold” (p. 76) 

and

“Officials at the 1932 games lost count of the laps in the 3,000m steelplechase and forced the athletes to run a 3,400m-long race as a result” (p. 77)

 Which proves once again what a unique experience the Olympic Games are!  

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