Please be advised that a blog posted this close to Halloween will most definitely have as many horror/thriller references in as possible. You have been warned.

You take a huge risk by sneaking a look from your hiding place to see the mass of desolate slack, silent and drooling faces right in front of you. Terrified, you search for a weapon, frantically determined to beat back the zombie horde. The lights scream on-

-and you realise you’re not in the middle of ‘The Walking Dead’ (or if you’re a true classic zombie fan, the original 1978 ‘Dawn of the Dead’), but instead you’ve slowly murdered your less than engaged audience by hiding behind a computer and reading from a PowerPoint.

Shame on you! Spreading the contagion that is already claiming more souls than Davy Jones, do you want to leave your dull, seemingly endless presentation and discover the wastelands of 28 Days Later? People milling around like mindless- well, zombies, having had to endure long and dragging presentations, their brains melting out of their ears, and now seeking replacement minds, they’re eyeing your head with the lick of their lips.

To avoid the apocalypse that you are inevitably going to create, should you continue down this road of PowerPoint inducing zombie strain, you need to look to ways of having your presentations interact with and engage audiences; maybe, and this is just a random suggestion off the top of my head- find some interactive presentation software that can engage audiences: Like Glisser!

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Design your new interactive presentation around your audience, stitch together your slides and create a veritable Frankenstein’s monster without the angry mobs and grave digging. Glisser gives you the options to turn on as many interactive features as you want; live slide sharing, polling, live Q&A, tweeting and feedback panels. Allowing you to engage audiences with this plethora of technological and interactive features, keeping them under your thrall much better than Count Dracula ever could.

Live polls switch people on, without the need for electricity and neck bolts. You can even set up some sort of scoring system/leaderboard. Offering the most interacted and engaged members of your audience rewards to ensure their constant attention. If you are a lecturer or teacher, provide your students with some sort of pop quiz. Questions revolving around the presentation will get them competitive and keep them plugged in, assuming you’re offering them something other than a boxed severed head as a reward, only Kevin Spacey can get away with giving people those. Glisser allows you to include any format of polls or questions, with live views available as the answers are selected, no dismembered limbs required!

Direct interaction from your listeners is something that can provide important feedback, and leads to bespoke content created from your audience that you can use, happily assured that the results are relevant and have come straight from your own target spectators. A Glisser presentation allows the audience the chance to provide feedback there and then, again offering an incentive would coerce a higher percentage to offer up their opinions, maybe a QR code that allows for a free drink at the bar? Or a pint of blood, if your audience is Elizabeth Báthory or William the Bloody.

On the whole you want to be the one left standing, and to claim that coveted alive at the end badge, you need to ensure that your audience doesn’t eat your brains, or simply murder you with a shovel because you have failed to deliver a new, fresh and interesting take on presentations. All the interactive software out there is evolving to include all sorts of new opportunities for speakers to engage audiences, and for their participants to be able to respond easily and effectively. Glisser alone offers everything on one plate and unless you’re the soul sucking reincarnated form of Imhotep, you should be eating it up.