Friday, March 27, 2009

Battle of the Presentations

Godzilla vs. Mothra. Ali vs. Frazier. Kramer vs. Kramer. Obama vs. McCain. Then there's Keynote vs. PowerPoint.

For some time now, PowerPoint has been the de facto corporate presentation tool. It's relatively easy to use and fairly seemless with the other Microsoft Office products. Firstborn's a creative agency and P-Point doesn't give us the oomph that's on a par with the work in our portfolio. Some of my co-workers had suggested using Apple's Keynote on the MacBook we have in our office. Being a PC guy, I was reluctant at first but now I couldn't do without it at meetings.

Keynote allows much more impactful presentations with really simple to use but powerful design tools and transitions. Also, we tend to show a lot of our work using video captures of our projects since we might not have an internet connection. It's just a lot easier to talk over videos of projects rather than having to click around. Quicktimes in Powerpoint just don't work but with Keynote, they're a charm.

Keynote, you won me over.

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