1. By Tom Barrett

2.  Microsoft PowerPoint  Corel Presentations  Google Docs  Harvard Graphics  IBM Lotus Freelance Graphics  Kingsoft Presentation  OpenOffice.org  SlideRocket  Prezi  Apple Keynote

3.  Microsoft PowerPoint, usually known as PowerPoint, is a proprietary commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft ©. It is part of the Microsoft Office Suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macs OS X operating system. The current versions are Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer is a program used to run presentations on computers that do not have PowerPoint installed. Office PowerPoint Viewer is added by default to the same disk or network location that contains one or more presentations packaged by using the Package for CD feature.  PowerPoint Viewer is installed by default with a Microsoft Office 2003 installation for use with the Package for CD feature. The PowerPoint Viewer file is also available for download from the Microsoft Office Online Web site.  Presentations password-protected for opening or modifying can be opened by PowerPoint Viewer. The Package for CD feature allows packaging any password-protected file or setting a new password for all packaged presentations. PowerPoint Viewer prompts for a password if the file is open password-protected.  PowerPoint Viewer supports opening presentations created using PowerPoint 97 and later. In addition, it supports all file content except OLE objects and scripting. PowerPoint Viewer is currently only available for computers running on Microsoft Windows.

4.  Google Docs is a free, Web-based office suite and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spread sheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of files up to 1 GB total in size was introduced on January 13, 2010, but has since been increased to 10GB, documents created inside Google Docs do not count towards this quota.  Google Docs is Google's "software as a service" office suite. Documents, spreadsheets, presentations can be created with Google Docs, imported through the web interface, or sent via email. Documents can be saved to a user's local computer in a variety of formats (ODF, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, Microsoft Office). Documents are automatically saved to Google's servers to prevent data loss, and a revision history is automatically kept so past edits may be viewed (although this only works for adjacent revisions, and there is currently no way to find and isolate changes in long documents.). Documents can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes. The service is officially supported on recent versions of the Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome browsers running on Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux operating systems.

5.  Corel Presentations (which is often referred to simply as Presentations) is a presentation program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress. The current release, version X5 (Release 15 internally), is available only as part of the Corel WordPerfect office productivity suite.  Over the years, the program's interface has evolved to more closely resemble that of Microsoft PowerPoint. Its primary strengths remain in the areas of graphics manipulation, although it does include a number of advanced transition and animation effects not found in its competitors. The program also has the ability to save to Microsoft PowerPoint and PDF formats, as well as to publish presentations to the Internet.  Corel Presentations can be a handy tool for creating effective and in-depth presentations. This program includes a number of templates and different types of slide shows to help to lay out an end user's show properly. The templates include a set background, font, color and set up of the slide. These defaults can be changed within the slide show.

6.  Harvard Graphics was a pioneering presentation program developed for DOS and Microsoft Windows by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC). Harvard Graphics, Inc. released the first version in 1986 as Harvard Presentation Graphics.  Harvard Graphics was one of the first consumer application software programs that allowed users to incorporate text, information graphics, and charts into custom slideshow presentations. The original version could import data from Lotus 1-2-3 or Lotus Symphony, charts created in Symphony or PFS Graph, and ASCII text. It could export text and graphics to Computer Graphics Metafile and to pfs: Write, also manufactured by SPC. Its use of vector graphics produced mixed results on the CGA and EGA displays common at the time, but output was usually sent to a slide printer or a colour plotter.  "Presentation" was dropped from the name for the second release, which came in 1987. Harvard Graphics 2.0 added the ability to import the latest Lotus 1-2-3 spread sheet data before generating graphics, as well as drawing and annotations for graphs. Version 3.0 was not released until 1991, offering improved editing functions, but its graphics and export capabilities were being outperformed by competitors like Aldus Persuasion and Lotus Freelance.  The market leader through the late 1980s, Harvard Graphics struggled as the market shifted to Microsoft Windows. SPC released a version for Microsoft Windows 3.0 in 1991, but its market share never approached the 70% it had commanded in the DOS market.; the Windows market came to be dominated by Microsoft PowerPoint. In 2001, Serif purchased exclusive marketing rights to the product line of Harvard Graphics, Inc., and assumed product support responsibilities.

7.  Lotus Freelance Graphics is an information graphics and presentation program developed by Lotus Software (formerly Lotus Development Corp.). Lotus Freelance Graphics is a part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite for Microsoft Windows. (Previous versions were also released for OS/2.)  It allows users to create and compile text, digital images, diagrams, basic drawings, and charts (such as bar charts and pie charts) into a digital slide show. The program was originally an enhancement for the graphing function of the Lotus 1-2-3 spread sheet-based program.  Freelance worked within DOS to produce slides that were a worthy competitor to PowerPoint, a program that was started for the Macintosh system. IBM acquired Lotus and instead of developing a version for the new Microsoft operating systems, Windows, the program was developed for IBM's OS/2, while PowerPoint was converted to the Windows system. With the general lack of adoption of OS/2, Freelance became a little-used system.  It was eventually grafted into a new version of 1-2-3 for Windows (Smart Suite) but by then PowerPoint and Excel had become dominant. The quality of the Freelance product started to deteriorate as IBM gave little support to SmartSuite while Microsoft Office and PowerPoint dominated the application area.

8.  leaves nothing to chance. They check that all technical equipment is working before they begin their presentation.  knows precisely how to start. The attention span of the average audience is very short, so it is essential to use a strong and confident opening to grab and keep their attention.  is concise and comes straight to the point. Most people are busy people, who do not want their time wasted with unnecessary details.  talks to their audience. It is important to know exactly who your audience is, what their expectations are and the level of their knowledge about the subject. Even if you know far more about the subject than the audience, never speak down to them.  knows what works. Listens to other speakers and learns from them.  speaks naturally, using notes as prompts rather than reading from a written text.  develops their own style. Do not try to be an actor. Inject your own personality into the presentation and above all, try to be yourself. Fakes are usually discovered.  takes their time. Giving a presentation is not a race to be over as quickly as possible. Stop for breath and pause in the right places.  enjoys the experience. The audience will notice if the presentation seems to be a painful experience for you.  doesn’t make a special effort to be funny. If humour is appropriate, then it enlivens a presentation to make some small jokes. However, don’t make a joke and wait for the audience to laugh. Just carry on speaking.  makes appropriate use of visuals. If you have visuals, never read what is on them, they should illustrate and support what you are saying, not repeat it. Use of colour also makes visuals more memorable.  welcomes questions from the audience. Questions should be seen as something positive. They mean that the audience was interested in your presentation. They also give you the opportunity to elaborate on your subject.  finishes strongly. The audience generally remembers the start and end of your presentation, even though they may not necessarily remember the whole content.

9.  I have selected different types of fonts and colours to make it appealing and eye-catching.  To sync use of bullet points to make it interesting.  Use of professional themes.  Subsequent graphs.

10.  If it was a long presentation, I would make it bullet pointed from the start. I would do this because it would be boring with all the info on a presentation so I would hand out leaflets with the information on it so that they can have an in depth read of the information if they so please.

11.  The easiest way to get past copyright is to have a watermark on your work so that it is recognised as yours.