Your quick guide to the best presentation and event software to ensure a successful experience.

What’s the best presentation software and event software?
Event management software is increasingly a must have for event planners. It can save them time, help organise often very complex and critical activities, and generate an enormous amount of useful data. However, it’s really important that the software selected is appropriate for your requirements. Too many vendors will offer a solution that is far too complicated, with a lot of unnecessary bells and whistles. Instead, when selecting event management software vendors, start with your objectives for the whole event. Then consider how technology might help you achieve those things, and select a vendor and product accordingly.

Also consider that multiple software vendors might be necessary, and so it’s vitally important that their solutions integrate well. For example, Glisser integrates directly into broader event apps, as well as responsive websites. Additionally, we can customise our colour schemes to suit your brand, creating a seamless technology experience for your attendees.

Focusing on presentation software
The best presentation software needs to be easy to use. It’s no wonder that PowerPoint has survived and thrived so long – it’s actually a remarkably simple and powerful presentation tool. It’s very easy to create all sorts of content on PowerPoint – we even use it to design basic flyers for our business. But content creation and presentation is where it stops. It’s a great way of creating a one-directional flow of visual information, but it does nothing to enable information to flow the other way – from the audience.

As a result, event managers have been using audience response systems for years now. What we did with Glisser is to combine the two. Use PowerPoint (or Keynote or Google Slides) to create your content as normal, then combine with Glisser to enable your audience to interact and engage with that content. So actually the best presentation software is a combination of two presentation tools – one to create the content, and the other to make it interactive.

What about an online presentation – after the event?
Millions of presenters now share their presentations online. They’ve taken the time to think through their message, narrative, and create compelling slides to explain their points. So why just present it once and then never let it see the light of day again? Putting presentations online is a great way of continuing to get your message across, as well as build your personal brand and increase your social media followers. It’s worth noting that once presentations are uploaded into Glisser, the live link stays active for as long as you like – basically until you delete your slides. So Glisser presenters can continue to share that link (and continue to gather audience interactions and feedback) long after the live presentation has passed.