Top Presentation Software and Tips for Good Presentations

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Top Presentation Software and Tips for Good
Presentations

• Presentation Software is a software installed on
  computers that enables uses to present data in an
  engaging manner in the form of text, audio,
  video and animation clips. Presentations are an
  efficient means of communicating the progress
  and plans for a business to stakeholders. They
  can also be used for training and educational
  purposes. Presentation software helps users in
  designing eye catching and informative
  presentations with the help of built in
  templates, themes, fonts and various options for
  data and image input along with special graphical
  or animation effects. Users can create elaborate
  presentations in a short span of time with just
  click and drag options. The best presentation
  software does not require the users to have any
  prior knowledge of graphical designing or
  coding.
• Top Presentation Software include
• Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint is
  one of the most preferred presentation software
  that businesses use. Microsoft PowerPoint
  provides users with an easy to use interface
  with text and editing options that are similar to
  its other products such as Excel and Word. This
  ensures familiarity with the tool. It offers a
  variety of templates, designs, formatting tools
  and options, animation and 3D effects, graphical
  and sound effects to make presentations more
  appealing. It comes as part of the Microsoft
  Office suite.
• Google Slides Google Slides is an online
  presentation software that offers users with
  multiple themes, fonts, and animation to create
  presentation slides. It is a free software that
  can be used by all. It can be easily accessed by
  users through phones, tablets, iPad etc. Google
  Slides enables multiple users to access the same
  file simultaneously and make edits while
  collaborating with teams on the go. Changes made
  by any user are automatically saved. It also
  easily integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint and
  can be used with Chromecast.
• Prezi Prezi offers a simple drag and drop
  option to create and allow users to structure the
  data easily. It offers functions such as Zoom
  Revel that lets users Zoom to a particular part
  of the presentation to highlight details. It
  offers a huge range of designer templates and

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• reusable templates. It is also compatible with
  Microsoft PowerPoint. It has pre-design options
  such as Story Blocks and customizable charts and
  a huge library of images and photos. It also has
  the option to insert company branding in a more
  appealing manner. It is easily accessible from
  tablets, iPads and even desktops.
• Quip The Quip presentation software offers
  features such as built-in chat, real-time co-
  editing, and pinnable comments. It allows users
  to connect to live data from Salesforce,
  spreadsheets, and other systems. This prevents
  users to manually update slides. It offers
  interactive prompts to gain feedback faster. It
  uses read receipts and analytics, powered by
  Salesforce Einstein, to gauge utilization of
  presentations across teammates, executives, and
  customers.
• Keynote Keynote, developed by Apple, has over
  30 eye-catching themes to choose from for a
  professional presentation. It also offers
  customization of themes. Users can insert
  photos, charts, and over 700 customizable shapes.
  It also has vast galleries and math equations
  stored. Users can animate objects along a path
  using Apple Pencil or the finger on iPhones or
  iPads. It has more than 30 cinematic transitions
  and effects for objects and text, including
  Magic Move. It can be opened with facial
  recognition.
• Visme Visme is a free presentation platform
  that offers tools to create presentations,
  infographics, printables, documents, social
  graphics, website graphics, videos, flyers,
  animated GIFs, charts, reports, graphs,
  timelines and flowcharts. It contains a huge
  directory of images and templates. It can be
  shared though multiple channels such as through
  download files, links, video etc.
• Microsoft Sway Microsoft Sway is an online
  presentation tool that allows users to create
  quick slides. It offers a number of templates and
  also a customization option. It is an easy to
  use interface with minimum formatting and design
  options. Users can create, edit and share
  presentations effortlessly with Microsoft Sway.
• Xtensio Xtensio is a presentation platform that
  allows users to create a beautiful presentation
  easily. It has various options to add images,
  text, animation etc. to presentations. It is
  used in real time and changes are saved
  automatically. It allows consistent formatting
  across the presentation with their style guide
  tool. Data is also categorically organized for
  easy access.
• Zoho Show Zoho Show lets users create,
  collaborate, present, broadcast, and publish
  presentations in a smarter way.The software has
  various themes that can be used for
  presentations. It has an option to add comments
  as well for review purposes.
• Other presentations softwares include AhaSlides,
  Animiz, Beautiful AI, Beekast,
• CrazyTalk, CustomShow, Cyviz, Deckset, Digideck,
  DS Studio, Emaze, Empower, Corel Presentations,
• Flowvella, Focusky, Google Slides, Haiku Deck,
  Hypersay, Imaginators, Impress, Ingage, Inpres,
  iSlide, Keynote, Knovio.
• Tips for Good Presentations

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1. Content Appealing content is the most important
   factor in a presentation. Content should be
   relevant and to the topic. If the content is too
   long people will lose interest. If too short, it
   displays a lack of effort in creating the
   presentation.
2. Spacing The spacing in a presentation is often
   a factor that is overlooked. Lack of appropriate
   spacing makes a presentation look too cluttered
   and unorganized.
3. Consistency The font, design and theme should
   be consistent in all slides. A sudden change in
   the slide does not give a professional feel to
   the presentations. Gradations can be used to
   show transitions if necessary.
4. Graphics and Animation The use of graphics and
   animations makes a presentation more eye
   catching and interesting to read. However, too
   many animations can result in distractions and
   viewers might miss the actual point of the
   presentation.
5. Story Telling A good presentation follows a
   flow and a story line. Reporting facts is not
   enough. Presenters need to bring out the why,
   who, when and how of the facts in a presentation.