Likelihood to Recommend The best case scenario for Apple Keynote is that you get it built-in with any MacBook, so you don't have to download anything and you're good to go for any sort of presentation. One more thing which I really admire about Keynote is that it has really cool animation style, You can literally create some basic video content using Keynote. Animations are also very easy to use, so If you want to have more animations you can just use Keynote instead of Powerpoint. Keynote has never been less appropriate until you have Windows as your Operating System. Another time where Powerpoint takes an edge is when you have to use a lot of features.
Read full review mmhmm is, by far, the absolute best presentation platform I have found - and I have looked a lot and demoed a lot of them. The flexibility, ease of use and visually engaging experience that mmhmm provides has, without fail, been a game changer tool no matter the presentation styles. While it is, hands down, the best virtual presentation platform, I have not been able to level up my in-person experiences to the same degree as I have online. I will continue to explore how and where I can integrate the mmhmm Studio toolsets to pump up my in-person experiences.
Art Stiefel Adjunct Professor - Digital Media & Advertising
Read full review Pros Resources to build beautiful presentations Complete software with many possibilities to customize your presentation Customizable presenter display Possibility to record presentation Reliable application Versatile Read full review The up front presenter in front of my slides Easily integrates static slides, animations and video without having to have vast technical skills. It's an intuitive application to use. In a few minutes you sign up, start a new presentation and you're underway. It's pretty plug-n-play. I've recommended it to my "non-technical" friends and they love it. They told me it was super easy to use and has made them more excited to create and share their presentations. Art Stiefel Adjunct Professor - Digital Media & Advertising
Read full review Cons The way you adjust timings for builds and transitions was a bit counterintuitive for me. Once I got the hang of it, it was fine. The timings don't work the same as they do in PowerPoint. So if you are a PowerPoint user, that may be something you have to adjust to when you switch to Keynote. I feel that adding images can be clunky when working with image placeholders. Apple Keynote forces you to use the Photo app to replace image placeholders. Read full review In the future I might like to see a fast-swap handoff to fellow presenters like we do in a live presentation. Getting more updates on the platform advances in emails would be helpful. Like the recent sharing of useful templates was awesome. I'd like to see more user stories shared to see how others are using the platform to make their presentations stand out. These kinds of things are helpful in feeding my ideas and insights for my next meeting, presentation and lessons. Art Stiefel Adjunct Professor - Digital Media & Advertising
Read full review Alternatives Considered While I don't use Keynote for every slide deck project need (software preference often is dictated by what the client has access to), I will promote KeyNote as the preferred format if the client is software-agnostic. The drag and drop feature is incomparable with other software options — a feature I've come to love and miss when I am required to use another program. As previously mentioned, the smooth interface and master template user-friendliness also helps raise Keynote above their competition.
Read full review Of all the platforms out there - believe me, I've tried them all - or try to avoid them whenever I can - mmhmm stands on its own with its unique platform benefits, visualizations, ease of use, sharability, affordability, and overall "Wow" factor that we hope to get from our audiences. No matter what it is we are presenting. To have that ability to integrate and gravitate to our presentations has proven to be a game changer that really did not take a lot for us to do. Even better is the fact that we still may have to - for whatever reason - build a presentation in one of the slide builder apps we can still import them seamlessly into mmhmm and use the mmhmm interface as our camera when we use the other platforms. It's been a complete win, win, win all around.
Art Stiefel Adjunct Professor - Digital Media & Advertising
Read full review Return on Investment Apple Keynote comes inbuilt on Apple Devices, so technically it does not require any additional payment which is a positive ROI. Apple Keynote offers various functionality and a wide variety of themes, which is a plus point. Apple Keynote syncs the presentation on various devices using iCloud. Read full review We've only seen positive impact since deciding to use mmhmm The ROI is a bazillion-fold. It's not an expensing platform, but the positive impact has been priceless! Even the Powerpoint burnt out team members have taken easily to using mmhmm Our presentations get comments like, "Wow... this is cool." "We really loved this presentation. It was completely engaging." "What are you guys using? This is pretty dang cool!" Art Stiefel Adjunct Professor - Digital Media & Advertising
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