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Notes 6.9.6 Zoho Show

Zoho Show (show.zoho.com), shown in Figure 6.8, is probably the weakest link in the Zoho
Office suite. Like Google Presentations, Zoho Show lets you create good-looking text-based
slides, but that’s about all. There is no chart-creation function, no tables, and no slide transition
effects.

Figure 6.8: The Zoho Show Web-based Presentation Program

Source: http://allcomputers.us/windows_azure/collaborating-on-presentations—evaluating-web-based-
presentation-applications-%28part-2%29.aspx
That said, Zoho Show integrates well with Zoho’s other web-based applications and offers easy
sharing and collaboration. So if you want a good basic presentation with few bells or whistles,
it’s worth checking out.

6.9.7 Sharing Your PowerPoint Presentations

If you already have a PowerPoint presentation and just want to share it with others via the web,
you might be interested in a presentation-sharing site. These sites, such as SlideBurner
(www.slideburner.com) and SlideShare (www.slideshare.net), work kind of like YouTube, but
for presentations rather than videos.
These sites, like YouTube, are file-sharing communities that are free for anyone to use. Once you
sign up, you can upload any presentation in PPT (PowerPoint), PDF, or ODP (OpenOffice)
format. The presentations you upload are then made available to the site’s community; you can
make your presentations private (viewable by invitation only) or public (meaning anyone can
see them).
Of course, you can also use these sites to host the presentations you give on the road or broadcast
to remote colleagues. Just send the URL for your uploaded presentation to your colleagues or
enter it into your own web browser. Your presentation can then be viewed in its default viewing
window or, on most sites, full screen.

Notes A presentation sharing site makes sense if you don’t want to switch from PowerPoint
to a web-based application but still need to share your final presentation with others in
remote locations.

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