YAY! Matt Cutts Gets Google Slide Show: Ditch PowerPoint for Presentations?
When Google’s celebrity blogger, Matt Cutts, used arch rival Microsoft’s PowerPoint to make “Gadgets, Google & SEO” points last month, I asked, “Hey Google, When Can Matt Cutts Ditch PowerPoint?”
Well that day has arrived? Google says “let’s break out the champagne”!
“Just like spreadsheets and documents, it means we can now share, edit and view presenations online in realtime. Awesome!”
Way to go Google.
But what is one of the the big “selling points” of Google’s online slides tool? The ability to import Microsoft PowerPoint shows! Sharing is caring, of course, in the Google Apps online collaboration strategy.
Google’s Presentations is presently not designer friendly! Templates? Transitions? What do you expect, another Microsoft PowerPoint!:
Specific templates, designed for specific purposes, aren’t offered.
At this time, it isn’t possible to add multimedia effects to your presentation OR a table OR embed documents and spreadsheets.
Display your presentation one slide at a time; To skip from one slide to the next, use your keyboard’s arrow keys.
Matt Cuts WILL undoubtedly get on his own Google Presentations bandwagon though: HIS Microsoft PowerPoint slide style will fit right in with Google’s “basic editing” options:
Move and resize an image
Bulleted or numbered lists,
Backgrounds and colors.
What about the non-geek, non-Web savvy Microsoft PowerPoint happy world? Who cares!
Google CEO Eric Schmidt famously haiis “don’t bet against the Internet”l:
Microsoft does have a collection of Web-based products. But for people who need presentation apps on the Web, they are going to use this. This is a testament to the strength of Web 2.0.
But what about the strength of Google Presentations? Google promises to improve its “beta” slowly but surely.
No mater that Google Apps-Google Docs-Presentations, is NOT a Microsoft PowerPoint killer, Google Docs blog assures it is good enough for “putting together killer presentations.”
WELL, at least good enough for Google fan boys!
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