Presentation Alternative

Have you ever used Powerpoint? The problem with PowerPoint is that almost every presentation looks the same. PowerPoint is very powerful, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes you just want something different. Say you have to do a presentation and you want “pop.” You would have to work very hard to give PowerPoint a different look to your audience. Enter Keynote, Apple’s presentation program.

If you have ever seen Steve Jobs’ presentations or Al Gores’ “An Inconvenient Truth” presentation, you were looking at Keynote.

Though the program looks and feels quite new, it really follows the same presentation paradigm established by PowerPoint so many years ago. First you choose (or create) a theme for your slide show, then you build it using text, graphics, sound, and video as you see fit (provided your trusty computer can handle the load). With your Mac hooked up to a TV or projector you can thrill audiences with your masterwork in person, or you can save it in some self-presenting format for streaming or downloading across networks or the Web.
Again, nothing groundbreaking here. But with Keynote, you’ll discover that you can do almost everything you did in PowerPoint with less effort, better results.
You have Keynote, why not try it.