Google Presentations are here!

posted on 20th September 2007 by Jon

Huge news from Google as the much anticipated presentation application has now been launched and added to their Google Docs portfolio. This is a massive step for Google and has been about two years in the making. It now means that Google can compete with Microsoft with each of their main applications with the added benefit of allowing simple and easy online collaboration for teams who are jointly working on documents at the same time. With a full audit history of who changed what and when + the ability to allow multiple changes to the same document at the same time, this is an extremely powerful set of tools.

We have had a little play with this already and it definitely hits the mark in terms of our expectations. It is really simple and easy to use. It lacks many of the more detailed functions that PowerPoint offers, for example, transitions and animations are not available yet, but the way we would use this tool is to prepare all content and info on the slides as a group and then export it to PowerPoint for one person to tidy up and finish off by sorting out the transitions and effects. Another useful benefit is that you will always have a copy of your presentation saved online somewhere so this can act as your back up instead of taking a bunch of paper copies to your big pitch.

Part of our role here at Score is to help our clients harness the newest and most powerful web-based technologies so we will definitely be introducing some of our clients to this new tool straight away.