Launch Your Presentations With SlideRocket

PowerPoint is on it’s way out as we continue to discover more than capable solutions for having all of your presentations located in the cloud. Today’s featured Web-based software is called SlideRocket. SlideRocket likes to describe itself as a platform that promotes influential storytelling through interactive capabilities like audio, rich media and instant feedback that elevate meetings, regardless of time or location. Created in 2006, SlideRocket “allows you to create stunning presentations, manage them intelligently, share them securely and then measure the results. Sliderocket also includes an online marketplace where you can find all the content and services you might need to make your presentations great.”

SlideRocket allows you to use different plug-ins such as Twitter, YouTube and Flickr along with a full marketplace of other unique add-ons to your presentation. Within the marketplace, you have the ability to get themes, stock photography, cartoons, smart art, data feeds, audio, video, illustrations, animations and plugins. To get started on SlideRocket, you can take your old PowerPoint presentations and import them into the SlideRocket system and then get to work. Concerned about the cost of using this platform? No need as there is a free version called SlideRocket lite (includes 250 MB of storage space and some quality publishing features). You can also invest $24 per month for the Pro version (includes a strong analytics feature set) or call their customer service for their Enterprise solutions. Free is a great place to start and learn about the power of SlideRocket.

SlideRocket continues to improve their product. In the past few months, they have added some new features that include a Presentation dashboard and Instant response forms and polls. The one feature that caught my eye is called Collaborative Comments. Instead of the presentation being a one-way street of the presenter talking and the participants listening, things have changed. SlideRocket gives participants the ability to provide comments anywhere in the slide deck through virtual sticky notes. Comments are delivered to the presentation author in real time and consolidated in one place. As someone who prepares presentation decks on a weekly basis, this feature is a breath of fresh air to further engage the audience I am facing.

What are your thoughts on Sliderocket being a legit replacement for PowerPoint? Is PowerPoint getting closer to replaced by the cloud? I think yes.

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