Interesting Fine – Explaining the Impact of Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Media 2.0
In my search to find a powerpoint presentation to critique for my ECMP class, I came across the presentation <a href=”
“>’Explaining the Impact of Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Media 2.0′ by Pat Kitano on Slideshare.
Pat has used many of the design recommendations from the Extreme Powerpoint Makeover presentation by Dean Shareski. Pat uses images of online logos and pages, works with contrasting colours, white backgrounds, highlighted text boxes, real photos, limited use of bullets, ideas are sequenced, and the font in text boxes are large enough.
Overall the presentation is quite self-explanatory, but I did find some of the multiple logos on one page distracting, the print in the web examples too small, and a detailed script in the notes component would be helpful. Though I can not recommend much to improve this presentation, I would recommend that web page examples be presented one at a time and larger (such as pages 7, 17, 22, 24 and 25) to allow the viewer to clearly see the points that Pat references with red circles and dialogue balloons.
The reason that I’ve included this presenation as an ‘interesting find’ is that it gives a bit more insight into Twitter, Friendfeed and social media with great references to more social networks. I find it both interesting and useful at this point of my blogging journey.
Have a glorious day.
Interesting. I found this presentation as well but I didn’t like it as much as you did. I found it really distracting. It was good to get another opinion on it though. I’m going to look at it again and try to learn from it. Thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks for this. Looks like we have two different thoughts on the same presentation. That’s an important piece … people have different views on design.