World’s Best Presentation Contest

Do you think the PowerPoint deck stored on your computer has potential to be the best in the world? Here’s your chance to find out. is holding a contest to select the world’s best presentation.

Enter your PowerPoint today!

You could win a cool prize!

Your presentation could be about anything you know or care for. From teaching 5th graders history to pitching your ideas to VCs; tell us why your city is great or convince us to buy hybrid cars; evangelize Linux or share a recipe for that perfect apple pie.

How to enter the contest

  • To enter the contest, do the following:
    • First upload your presentation to SlideShare.
    • Now find the “Edit” button for the presentation (click “edit” for that presentation from your “My SlideSpace” page).
    • Find the “Participate in Contest” dropdown and select “World’s Best Presentation Contest” and press “Update”.
    • Your entry will now show up in the contest.
  • You can upload PowerPoint (PPT & PPS), OpenOffice (ODP), PDF and Keynote (for Mac users). If you use Keynote, save the presentation in PDF format and upload.
  • You can enter UP TO 5 presentations only.
  • While uploading the presentation file, you should tell us something about it in the description section. This will give the voters and judges some context as to your presentation. Specifically, tell us which of the below options describes how your presentation was or is meant to be used. “PowerPoint Deck as Leave Behind” OR “In Person Presentation Support” OR “Both” OR “Other”.
  • Also, be sure to specify what country you are from in your SlideShare profile. Only contestants from USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India can enter their presentations (sorry, this is due to contest law issues!).
  • Please make sure you are only submitting material that you own the copyright for.

Voting Mechanism and Winners

SlideShare’s users will vote on the entries while the contest is on. The winning entries will be decided by our panel of judges, which is comprised of the who’s who of the presentation world. The People’s Choice prizes will be decided on the basis of the votes polled. Winners will be announced one week after the contest ends. For details read the contest rules.

The judges:
Guy Kawasaki (http://blog.guykawasaki.com/)

Bert Decker (http://www.deckerblog.com)

Garr Reynolds (http://www.presentationzen.com/)

Jerry Weissman (http://www.powerpresentations.blogs.com)

Anyone in the world can vote

Click here for contest details, prizes and rules - SlideShare » Contestdetails

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Comments

Ian,

Thanks for blogging this!
-Jon

I work for Guy Kawasaki. Thanks for posting details of the SlideShare contest as well as the link to Guy’s blog!

Mary-Louise
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/

You’re welcome. I’m spending a whole lot of time viewing the entries and picking up good examples for improving my presentations.

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