I chose Sliderocket for my presentation, and since I had no old presentations to use, I went ahead and created 5 slides about things I like about Houston, which is 30 miles away from me. The free version of Sliderocket unfortunately doesn't have any audio capability (except you can embed videos) so I used video, pictures and URL's. I found, like the review we read, that Sliderocket was too easy to just accidently sign out of, and like he said, the recover function was not that reliable when it happened. That said, I do like the look of it and think if you could add feeds like Twitter and invite comments and look at the statistics this would be good for a workplace. But I'm not sure if it would be worth the $24 a month. Each slide can be saved in the Library and reused. You can't crop a video, so the one I found about running in Houston is actually too long, and probably most viewers would not be interested enough to view it all. I must say, I didn't think about the copyright issue of using a video that is not mine, and not getting permission either. (!) I have worked with PowerPoint just enough so that the basic tools are easy to use. I like the idea of film and audio in a presentation. Especially for me, music has a potential impact for me that silent slides do not, although the music has to be skillfully applied. I especially liked the example of Sarah McLachlan's "infomercial" about film studio costs vs help for people.
I must say I do not do presentations for my job. I did one in library school....that's it. These online tools ones look very promising to me. I think we certainly could use them in the library...on our blog or at kiosks where people can see a local history overview, or a quick run-down of different book genres. As long as we have that internet connection!
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