20 Online Presentation Tools

Note: I was looking for presentation tools and the sites listed below, which offer online presentation tools, were the 20+ that kept coming up in everybody else's list (although most had either top 5 or top 10 lists).  No need to recreate the wheel here, just to pass along another piece of randomly.variously but filtered....Check for yourself if  you like but 12 months latter Dustin list still works.   
20+ Powerful Online Presentation Tools

by DUSTIN BETONIO on MARCH 15, 2011



Online presentations are considered as one of the effective marketing and communication tools. Publishing value-added content on variety of presentation websites can help you in keeping your clients informed, updated, and aware of information that is important to them. It also provides a platform to reach out to your target audience by increasing brand loyalty and customer satisfaction..

With more long-distance meetings going on due to increasing travel costs and decreasing expense accounts, you need to be able to show your work to clients and co-workers so they can easily see your point. Everyone loves online presentations. They offer easily digestible snippets of content that break down communication problems and understanding. when done right, they can provide an extra level of excitement and interactivity to a talk, or clarity to a concept. In this post I have gathered top notch online presentation tools for you to use. Besides using the tools below you may consider building a site using WordPress for presenting stuff online. Make sure you have a great theme.WordPress gallery themes are great for photographers and designers showcasing their creations in an online portfolio. However a wordpress magazine theme is excellent if you have a log of content and many categories you want to showcase on the front page.

1. VCASMO


VCASMO will let you upload all of the usual variety of file formats that you need to create your presentations and allows you to add such things as subtitles, links to web sites within the presentation itself, skip to parts of a video even before it is done loading and many more user-friendly features.
2. 280 Slides


280 Slides is a free tool with a clean user interface. You can upload existing files or create your presentations right from 280 Slides. The built in media search allows you to easily include photos and movies from services like Flickr and YouTube in your presentations
3. Spresent


Spresent allows you to create Flash-based presentations with the ability to import content from Flickr and YouTube, publish to the Web, provide links to the presentation, embed into blogs and more. They also offer a desktop application for $29.95 so you can work on your presentations at any time.
4. iPresent



Presio is a tool for creating rich media web presentations. You can record audio or video alongside PowerPoint slides and images. Presentations can be published as HTML pages with embedded media in a variety of formats. Standard and Professional versions can be purchased for $89 or $199 respectively.
5. PreZentit


You can create as many presentations as you like with PreZentit; your only limitation is 250 MB of image storage. You can download your completed presentations to show any time you want even without an Internet connection. The presentations are created as Web pages, so you can also edit them by hand if the need should ever arise.
6. SlideRocket


SlideRocket allows you to create presentations or upload your existing PowerPoint files. You can collaborate with teamworks to work on presentations, and each presentation can be shared by a URL or embedded in websites and blogs. SlideRocket includes detailed reporting that allows you to see who viewed your presentation, where, how long the were on each slide, and how they interacted with the slides. SlideRocket costs $24 per user per month with a 14-day free trial available.
7. Empressr


Empressr bills itself as making rich media presentations. You can upload your own content such as video, images and audio to make your presentations, use content from sites such as Photobucket and Flickr and then share the links to your creations or embed them into blogs and social media websites. If you want to use the service for business presentations, they also include tools for charts and tables.
8. Google Docs


With Google Docs you can upload your own images and video, add text, and create presentations quickly. You can allow anyone to view or edit your presentation. Existing PowerPoint files can also be uploaded for sharing. Google Docs is free.
9. Slideboom



It is a high quality and easy-to-use online presentation sharing service. SlideBoom supports PowerPoint presentations, PPTX and slideshows (PPS, PPSX). It allows you to share and search presentations in 100+ different languages and across 30+ categories. It also provides a platform to discuss your presentations, create or join an interest group and embed presentations into your blog or website.
10. Zoho Show


This online tool helps in making powerful presentations to promote your product and business. You can create, edit and share your presentations from anywhere and anytime. Zoho Show’s pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use. The chat feature is a great tool to complement your remote presentation, if you wish to have a private conversation with your client, just click on their names to bring up a private chat window. You can make presentation public by embedding them in your blog, website etc.
11. Prezi


Prezi is an online presentation tool with both free and paid plans. With any plan you can easily create your own presentations and share them online or download them for offline viewing. With paid plans (starting at $59 per year) you get additional features like making presentations private and the ability to work offline.
12. SlideShare


SlideShare is another online presentation tool that has both free and paid options. With the free plan your presentations will include ads, but you will get unlimited uploads. Paid plans start at $19 per month and offer additional features like no ads, private uploads, analytics, and buzz tracking to see who is sharing your content on sites like Twitter and Facebook.
13. Knoodle


With Knoodle you can create dual panel presentations and synch PowerPoint presentations to video. Presentations can be shared via a custom-branded webpage or embedded in websites and blogs. Plans start at $14.99 per month with a 30-day free trial available.
14. MyBrainShark



Very easy to add audio by mP3 upload or even by phone. Very well suited to business professionals. and its free
15. SlideBank



Slidebank is a “presentation management solution for companies with thousands of PowerPoint slides that nobody can find.” It includes a lot of features for sharing presentations as well as storing and searching. With SlideBank you can also create new presentations in addition to just working with existing ones.
16. Myplick



Another website for online slideshow presentations. Myplick.com is a free service that users can use to create slide shows with previously existing files, improve them using its resources, and easily share them with their network. You can upload files in PowerPoint, Pdf, Openoffice, odp etc. You can also sync audio files to your slides and share them publically or privately to with your group. They also provide you stats on slide navigations, popular slides and which slides were people most likely to leave from, etc. They have variety of categories to choose from including hot plicks, featured plicks and recent plicks.
17. Mindflash


Mindflash is geared towards training materials and working with your existing presentations and training files (PowerPoint, video, Word, or PDFs). Mindflash converts them into an online course that you can share with anyone that you are training.
18. SlideServe



This online tool enables you to easily share, discover and view PowerPoint presentations online. It allows you to add special effects in your presentations like narration & continuous audio, video, animations & transitions and hyperlinks. Its “Presentation of the Week” section is included for additional reference purposes. The presentations that have received the best ratings and the ones that have been viewed the most are equally highlighted. You can share presentations public

ally and privately and you can also add them on your social media profiles.
19. authorSTREAM


authorSTREAM allows you to upload PowerPoint presentations and share them with others online. The presentations can be shared via a URL, email, or they can be embedded. Presentations can be downloaded as a video and shared on YouTube.
20. BrinkPad



BrinkPad is a Java-based presentation creator that allows you to save your finished work to the Web, save to disk, save as JPGs and more. The interface is a bit simplistic looking, but quite robust in the number of tools it offers.

21. Imageloop



Upload PPT, ODP, PPS and PDF files to create your online presentations and then share them on sites such as Facebook, Orkut, Blogger, Hi5 and more.

22. Google Docs Presentation

The Google Docs suite of office products includes a presentation tool that will allow you to collaborate with others just as you do with any of its other products. When completed, you can download the finished projects as PDFs, PowerPoint or text documents.



Author : Dustin Betonio

Dustin Betonio is a Translation Management graduate at University of Mindanao. His earlier career was devoted on customer service outside the information highway. Currently studying Law in the same University.

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Report: Environmental Health Increases, Consumption Decreases in the UK

First, happiness=longer life. Then, this.... Will the good news today never cases!?

Summary: Waste arising - UK generates lower waste

Total waste

The UK generated an estimated 313.6 million tonnes of waste in 2008, 28.5 million tonnes (8.3 per cent) lower than in 2006. The amount of waste reduced as:

• non-household waste fell by 27.6 million tonnes to 282.1 million tonnes
• household waste fell by 1.0 million tonnes to 31.5 million tonnes 

Waste arising by sector

Source: Office for National Statistics

Material productivity

Source: Office for National Statistics

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Summary: Natural Resource and Products Use - UK Material Productivity Increases

Summary: Acid Rain - Emissions fall in 2009

UK Acid Rain Precursor Emissions

Source: Office for National Statistics

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Total Emissions

The UK emissions of chemicals that can cause acid rain decreased by 12.4 per cent in 2009, compared with 2008, to 2.2 million tonnes – the lowest level since records began in 1990. This breaks down as follows:

• emissions from the UK companies and the public sector decreased by 12.1 per cent to 2.0 million tonnes
• emissions from households decreased by 15.8 per cent to 0.2 million tonnes

Non-household

Emissions of chemicals that can cause acid rain from the non-household sector accounted for 91.4 per cent of total acid rain emissions in 2009. This was mainly due to emissions from transport and communication industries; agriculture, forestry and fishing; electricity, gas and water industries; and manufacturing industries, which together accounted for 89.6 per cent of the non-household sector.

Emissions from the non-household sector decreased by 0.3 million tonnes in 2009, compared with 2008, primarily due to a fall in emissions from the transport and communication industry; manufacturing industry; and electricity, gas and water industry. Emissions by these industries decreased by 0.3 million tonnes in 2009, mainly due to a fall in Nitrogen Oxides ( NO_X ) and Sulphur Dioxide (SO₂). The manufacturing industry recorded the largest percentage fall (17.5 per cent) in emissions in 2009, compared with 2008, partly due to a fall in the economic activity.

A sharp fall, 67.4 per cent, in acid rain emissions from the non-household sector between 1990 and 2009, mainly reflects the move away from coal towards nuclear generated electricity and gas fired plants.

Household

Emissions of chemicals that can cause acid rain from the household sector decreased in 2009, compared with 2008, mainly due to a fall in Nitrogen Oxides ( NO_X ) and Sulphur Dioxide (SO₂). Emissions caused by Nitrogen Oxides ( NO_X ) fell by 22.6 per cent, and emissions caused by Sulphur Dioxide (SO₂) fell by 10.1 per cent.

Emissions from the household sector decreased by 68.6 per cent to 0.2 million tonnes between 1990 and 2009. The main source for this fall was Nitrogen Oxides ( NO_X ), which fell by 76.6 per cent during this period. 

Source: Office for National Statistics

Background notes

1. Acid rain contains sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and ammonia.
   For more information, e-mail environment.accounts@ons.gov.uk

Further information

Environmental accounts, 2011 - 2011

Environmental Accounts bulletin, 2011 - 2011

Material productivity

The UK material productivity increased in 2009, compared with 2008, as domestic material consumption fell more than GDP .  The UK’s domestic material consumption – the quantity of natural resources used by the UK economy – decreased by 68.7 million tonnes, the largest fall since records began in 1970, to 566 million tonnes in 2009, compared with 2008.

Domestic material consumption decreased as:

·          consumption for minerals fell by 51.0 million tonnes to 220 million tonnes

·          consumption for fossil fuels fell by 15.4 million tonnes to 208 million tonnes

·          consumption for biomass fell by 2.13 million tonnes to 130 million tonnes

Minerals

Domestic extraction decreased by 51.4 million tonnes, mainly due to a fall in extraction of crushed stones, and sand and gravel. Exports decreased by 4.1 million tonnes, while imports decreased by 3.6 million tonnes.

Fossil fuels

Domestic extraction decreased by 13.7 million tonnes, mainly due to a fall in extraction of natural gas, and crude oil. Imports decreased by 3.7 million tonnes and exports decreased by 2.0 million tonnes.

Biomass

Imports decreased by 2.9 million tonnes and exports decreased by 1.4 million tonnes, whereas domestic extraction remained unchanged.

Much of the period from 1990 to 2007 had seen strong economic growth in the UK with increased material productivity. However, material use has fallen in relation to the level of economic activity. This in part reflects the increasing importance of the service industries in the UK economy. Gross domestic product overall decreased in 2009 and material use fell. The fall in demand mainly for primary aggregates – crushed stones, and sand and gravel - coincided with the contraction in output of the construction industry in 2009.

Source: Office for National Statistics

Background notes

1. The concept of material productivity is used to assess progress towards sustainable development. It is presented in terms of the relationship between material use and economic activity, calculated by dividing Gross Domestic Product in real terms by Domestic Material Consumption ( DMC). 
   
   
2. Domestic material consumption = domestic extraction + imports – exports
3. For more information, e-mail environment.accounts@ons.gov.uk
   
   

Summary: UK Energy Consumption - Energy Intensity Falls in 2009

Energy Consumption and Gross Domestic Product

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Energy intensity

Energy intensity - the amount of energy consumed per unit of output – by UK companies and the public sector decreased by 2.9 per cent in 2009, compared with 2008. Energy consumption fell by 6.9 per cent and output fell by 4.9 per cent during this period. Overall, energy intensity fell by 35.1 per cent between 1990 and 2009, while Gross Domestic Product rose by 45.8 per cent in real terms during this period.

Energy consumption

The UK consumed 210.8 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoes) of energy in 2009 - the lowest since 1990 - 15.6 mtoes (6.9 per cent) lower than in 2008. The UK total energy consumption (including household) fell as:

• the total use of energy from fossil fuels decreased by 8.7 per cent to 194.1 mtoes

However, this was partly offset as:

• the use of energy from other sources – nuclear power, hydro electric power, and imports of electricity – increased by 20.2 per cent to 16.7 mtoes 
 
Fossil fuel

Energy consumption from fossil fuel by UK companies and the public sector decreased by 10.2 per cent to 139.1 mtoes in 2009, the lowest consumption since 1990. It was mainly due to a fall in energy consumption by electricity, gas and water industries; manufacturing industry; and transport and communication industries. Energy consumption from fossil fuels by the household sector decreased by 4.5 per cent to 55.0 mtoes - 28.3 per cent of total energy use from fossil fuel - in 2009.

Other sources

Energy consumption from non-carbon sources increased by 2.8 mtoes to 16.7 mtoes - 7.9 per cent of energy used by the whole economy - in 2009.  The use of energy from non-carbon sources was the highest since 2006; however, it was 8.3 mtoes lower than in 1998. 

Source: Office for National Statistics

Background notes

1. Gross Domestic Product: Chained volume measure – seasonally adjusted.
2. Energy from other sources is allocated to non-household sector.
3. The unit of measurement used in this analysis is tonne of oil equivalent (toe), which enables different fuels to be compared and aggregated. It should be regarded as a measure of energy content rather than a physical quantity. Standard conversion factors for each type of fuel are given in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES).
4. For more information, e-mail environment.accounts@ons.gov.uk

Woodland area increases

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Summary: Forestry & Wood Products - Woodland area increases

In 2010, the total area of the UK covered by woodland was 3.1 million hectares; roughly the area covered by 4.1 million football pitches (or 1.5 times the area of Wales) - the highest since records began - and represents 12.7 per cent of the UK land area.  This is more than two-and-a-half times the area covered in 1924 when these statistics were first collected.  Much of this increase has been driven by commercial conifer plantations created between the 1950s and 1980s. 

Apparent consumption

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The UK apparent consumption – production and imports minus exports - of wood products increased in 2010 after decreasing for two consecutive years. In 2010, the apparent consumption increased, compared with 2009, as: 

• a pparent consumption of sawnwood increased by 8.6 per cent to 8,591 thousand cubic metres
• apparent consumption of wood based panel increased by 9.5 per cent to 5,561 thousand cubic metres

 However, this was partly offset as:

• apparent consumption of paper fell by 4.9 per cent  to 9,905 thousand tonnes

  Sawnwood

 Apparent consumption of sawnwood increased by 682.6 thousand cubic meters to 8,591 thousand cubic meters in 2010. This was mainly due to an increase in both imports and UK production of sawnwood. Imports increased by 8.5 per cent to 5,684 thousand cubic meters and UK production increased by 7.2 per cent to 3,078 thousand cubic metres.

Wood based panels Apparent consumption of wood based panels increased by 481.6 thousand cubic metres – the first increase since 2006 - to 5,561 thousand cubic metres in 2010. This was mainly due to an increase in both UK production and imports. UK production increased by 11.2 per cent to 3,370 thousand cubic metres and imports increased by 9.2 per cent to 2,731 thousand cubic metres.
 
Paper  Apparent consumption of paper decreased by 510.6 thousand tonnes to 9,905 thousand tonnes in 2010, the lowest level on record. This was mainly due to an increase in exports, together with a fall in imports. Exports rose by 36.2 per cent to 1,220 thousand tonnes, while imports fell by 2.7 per cent to 6,825 thousand tonnes.

Sources: Forestry Commission / Office for National Statistics

Background notes

1. Data for 2010 are provisional.
2. Apparent consumption is the amount of timber, measured as wood raw material equivalent underbark, used as wood and wood products by people and industries in the UK. It is calculated as total UK production plus imports, minus exports.  Apparent consumption also differs from actual consumption by the extent of changes in the level of stocks. It is not practical to collect information on actual consumption. 
3. Sawnwood is timber that has been cut into planks from logs and includes both softwood and hardwood.
4. Wood based panels include particle board, fibreboard, plywood and veneer sheets and can be made from softwood or hardwood.
5. For more information, e-mail environment.accounts@ons.gov.uk

SOURCE: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/environmental/environmental-accounts/2011/waste-arising.html