Our Top 10 Tools & Online Resources for Your 2017 Business Presentations

Happy New Year and welcome back...now get to work on the dozens of new initiative projects we have scheduled for you! Sound familiar?

In the chaos of all the new year projects, it’s easy to forget one of your most important company resources…your presentations! Yes, your presentations represent a unique chance to engage for minutes or even hours with qualified, targeted audiences...an impact opportunity that websites, marketing materials or apps can rarely offer.

Luckily for you, presentations are a year-round passion of ours – so to help you make the most of your opportunities we've prepared a list of our top 10 presentation tools and online resources to help you WOW your audiences throughout 2017.

Whether you're looking for modern iconography, data visualization tools, amazing stock photos or simply inspiration for your next design, we've got you covered!

Happy presenting in 2017 from all of us at Puffingston!

1. The Noun Project

• Bullets
• Get
• Boring
• Quickly

A little design flare goes a long way when you’re watching or giving a presentation! Instead of tired bullet points, add iconography for some visual interest and intrigue – and forever retire the clip art you keep recycling from your 10-year old presentations. 

The Noun Project has thousands of icons to search from so you’re likely to find what you’re looking for. Even better, you can use anything on the site for free as long as you attribute the source to the artist. It is one of our favorite resources for taking the boring out of presentations.

2. Font Squirrel 

Have you ever wasted huge chunks of time scrolling through the entire directory of fonts in PowerPoint only to give up and fall back to one of the defaults anyway? We have, but not anymore!

There are tons of professional fonts out there that would be great for your presentation. With Font Squirrel you can search lists such as Hottest Fonts or Most Popular AND you can search by tags such as Headings, Contemporary, Casual and more. With the Font Identifier you can even upload an image of that font you really like but can’t quite match and it will do that for you. Choosing the perfect font has never been easier!

3. Unsplash

While there’s certainly no shortage of photos on the internet (a quick Google search will turn up over 92 million results), most of them are far from the high-quality, high-impact editions you’d want to use in a professional presentation. That’s where Unsplash comes in! Unsplash allows you to search through amazing collections of high resolution images on topics such as City Life, Workspace or For the Love of Caffeine (for that extra boost of energy). You can quickly find the perfect photo for your next presentation completely free.

Photos are more than just “spice” or “pezaz” for your presentation – they are the key to creating an impactful, emotionally engaging presentation. Say goodbye to random low-resolution photos from your search results and hello to Unsplash!

We've got 7 more awesome resources for you! Check them out on the Puffingston blog