Now, if you are giving a presentation and you want to put together a

slide deck, I highly recommend considering the

two biggest apps in the industry today.

You've got PowerPoint and Keynote.

Each one of these has tons of different

features that make putting together slide decks pretty nice.

Even a mobile version that can help you bring your slide decks with you.

Keynote is available

for free on new Macs.

I think on older Macs, it's about 20 bucks.

And the cost for PowerPoint varies depending on

the Microsoft Office package that you end up getting.

Now if you want to try something new however, Prezi at prezi.com is an online

presentation maker that allows you to design

everything online and store it there as well.

Just like Keynote and PowerPoint get lots of features.

And in fact, I wanna sort of kick out

there right now and just do a quick live demo

of a presentation that I threw together real fast just

to give you an idea of what it looks like.

So, again, it's prezi.com.

If we jump into this presentation here, you'll see,

alright, let's have a quick look at this tool.

Now, one of the first things you're gonna see is that it's got really cool

animation effects.

It's as if all the slides exist on a, on a space right there instead of just the

classic, you know, here's a slide, here's the next slide, here's the next slide.

It gives it a nice physical effect to it.

Now in addition to the cool animation effects, they have

lots of templates just like the other tools, Keynote and PowerPoint.

They have different color schemes, and you can modify almost

everything within the the template.

Online is, you know, where you can find this tool.

You can create and store these presentations online.

You can even embed YouTube videos and, you know, this is cool.

I'm not gonna play this here, but it'll start playing and, you know, it's a nice

little extra when you have some of that multimedia that you wanna feature.

But I know sometimes

in, in older tools, it's a little clugey and maybe it might suck up some

of the bandwidth and, and computing power on whatever device you've got.

To be able to pull that stuff from YouTube is pretty nice.

So prezi.com, that's something that I recommend to all of you if

you are doing presentations or, or if you anticipate that you might do

a presentation some time in the future. It's worth checking out.

It's free to use and there are some paid options as well, depending on your needs.

So PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi. Give those a look.