How to be a Presentation God: Build, Design, and Deliver Presentations that Dominate!

10.3. DECISIONS, DECISIONS

For many presenters, trying to decide between PowerPoint and Keynote, SlideRocket and PowerPoint, or anything and Prezi is going to be a little bit like figuring out the difference between blue cheese and Gorgonzola. Who cares? Just eat the cheese. However, adopting this perspective is like saying you don't believe in love or that you won't clap your hands no matter how ill Tinkerbell is. In short, it makes you a monster.

Before you were even a wink in the air between your father and mother, you were destined for one of these programs. If you try all of them and still don't have a preference, see a therapist: it has more to do with your ability to experience emotions than with the programs' weaknesses.

Discovering the ideal program for your presentation aspirations is one of those unique, only-you-can-know-what's-right decisions. It's okay to be traditional: You raised your first presentations with PowerPoint, so how could you possibly dream of trading 20-plus years of time together—some good, some bad—for some glamorous young web application? But we're not talking about people here; we're talking about computer programs. And don't you resent the PowerPoint episode in Philadelphia when your presentation went down in flames due to file corruption? What better vengeance than to ditch the old hag and go online with your future decks?

All of these programs ...