SlideRocket SlideRocket is a rich Internet application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web. SlideRocket beta is now open to the public.

SlideRocket includes all the best features of the desktop applications and adds in professional-quality design tools. Also supports remote meetings. The finished presentations can be viewed full screen.

For a full list of features, check out this link.

Below is an embed of a sample presentation:

Interface

The slide creation GUI is intuitive with tools for inserting text, picture, videos at the left side element specific properties displayed at the right. Buttons for inserting new slides, accessing library and playing are at bottom left.

SlideRocket Interface

We can search for Flickr Images within the application and insert any.

Rich media like movies can be inserted into slides. Visual effects include drop shadow and glow for text, reflections and 3D rotation for pictures and video. Animations effects include Motion Blur Flyin, Materialize, Sparkle, and Decoder.

Some useful keyboard shortcuts:

  • Ctrl+S – Save presentation
  • Ctrl+P – Print presentation
  • Ctrl+Z – Undo
  • Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V – Copy and Paste

Autosave is enabled by default and is set every 5 minutes and whenever you navigate to another slide.

Publishing

File –> Close (or F1) closes the presentation and takes you back to dashboard from where it can be published. The publish screen looks like this:

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Just like in PowerPoint, a click takes the user to next slide.

SlideRocket also comes with an offline client that let’s you present without an Internet connection. You can synchronize your online presentations to offline and take them with you.

Collaboration

You can add up to 4 additional users to your account and take advantage of some of the team oriented SlideRocket functionality:

  • Share presentations, slides and assets in a common library
  • Create presentations collaboratively
  • Create once, share many, and update universally
  • Assign user access rights at various levels to manage / control access and message
  • Version control at both slide and presentation level provide rollback points and compliance
  • Conduct web meetings to share your presentations in real time
  • Track who’s viewed your presentation with analytics

Conclusion

What’s missing in SlideRocket is the ability to auto play presentations like slideshows. But otherwise, SlideRocket is a lovely web application for creating presentations with a pretty neat interface.

Update: Per the email that I received from SlideRocket team and the comment below, it is possible to create slideshows for the presentations by setting the ‘Advance On’ property of each slide.

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