A few weeks ago, I noted that SlideShare was holding a tell-a-story slideshow contest.
Entries are now closed and in the judges’ hands, but the folks at SlideShare noted they had some favorite entrants and gave links to three of them.
I hope the judges have a better sense of story than the SlideShare folks do.
The only one of the three that I felt was really a story is the one embedded below, The Short Story of Drunkenomics. I don’t happen to support its message, but it tells its story without narration and with minimal type on the slides.
I don’t really get the message of the second one, The Small & Big of It. It barely tells a story, in my opinion. It has a soundtrack, but it’s music rather than narration.
The third one, Creative Thinking: Your Edge, while a lovely slideshow, comes nowhere close to being a story.