Someone I know needs to make a PowerPoint presentation summarizing what his company does. He thought there might be PowerPoint presentations from other companies doing something similar, but couldn’t find anything. I had no luck either.
Has anyone seen a good presentation somewhere online?
Ironically, you can find a lot of good powerpoint examples by googling “bad powerpoint examples.” They will often show the good as a counterpoint to the bad. Id don’t know if you’ll find a model of exactly what he wants, but it’s a place to start.
I’ve found these guidelines (PDF) to be quite helpful.
That’s an awesome resource, friedo. Thanks. I may be giving a presentation soon. No powerpoint, but that’s a great guide for any presentation.
Upon re-reading the OP - Did you mean he wanted a full presentation to use as a model for his own, including things to give him ideas about what he might want to use in his own presentation?
He should start by deciding what information he wants to include, and then decide how to present it afterwards. Looking at other presentations is great to get ideas of what to include, of course, but he shouldn’t limit himself to looking at powerpoint presentations. Printed material might offer good ideas too.
Key questions:
Who is the audience?
How long (time) is the presentation supposed to be?
What is the point of the presentation? What story is he trying to tell? There’s always a story, even if it’s just “we want you to give our company your business and this is why?”
Also, he should not write the presentation IN powerpoint. He should start by writing the material in word.* It’s easy to get caught up with and distracted by “powerpointy” issues, including exactly what and how much to put on a slide. He should write up his full presentation in word, including detail that won’t make it on to the powerpoint presentation and pasting in graphics and stuff that he is considering using. Then he should use that material as a basis for constructing a powerpoint presentation. After it’s laid out, it will be much easier to see how the information hangs together and what makes sense to put on one slide. And in constructing the powerpoint doc, he should use only a tiny fraction of what he’s actually written. The word doc can serve as a basis for presentation notes.
Check out the Investor Relations sections of many large publicly held companies. They normally publish the presentations that their CEO or CFO’s present to shareholders, and for debt and equity analyst conferences.
The opposite of this. 
He’s in marketing, so this isn’t his first dance with PowerPoint presentations. I don’t think he wants advice on how to set up a presentation, but wants to see if other companies are doing something better that he can incorporate into his own presentations.
I knew which one this was going to be! I like the “new nations” chart.
I use this example for my MS Office class, partly because it comes right after they do a major paper in Word (with citations and maps) on the same topic. Students figure out I like history.
This is perfect!
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I prefer the term The Man.