designing a slide to show a "continuum"

[presentationpete]

I have to show a Continuum of services, starting from the initial idea
phase of developing a product up to delivery to market.

I've done a bunch of slides like this in the past, typical "left to
right" type of stuff, but I want to do something DIFFERENT that
doesn't look like typical PowerPoint. So I'm trying to think of a
professional-looking way to show a continuum of about 4-5 phases (each
with a few bullets of description) but in a non-PowerPointish manner.

I'm searching around the wed and not really finding much in terms of
ideas, so I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas about where to
look to get some ideas flowing in my head.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TonyRamos]

I have to show a Continuum of services, starting from the initial idea
phase of developing a product up to delivery to market.

I've done a bunch of slides like this in the past, typical "left to
right" type of stuff, but I want to do something DIFFERENT that
doesn't look like typical PowerPoint. So I'm trying to think of a
professional-looking way to show a continuum of about 4-5 phases (each
with a few bullets of description) but in a non-PowerPointish manner.

I'm searching around the wed and not really finding much in terms of
ideas, so I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas about where to
look to get some ideas flowing in my head.

Thanks in advance.

Have you tried a left-right continuum which spans more than one slide?
Most audiences have never seen this, and it's very easy in PowerPoint.
Let's assume 4 slides for your continuum. Show one quarter of the
continuum on each slide (and its details/bullets), then use the "push"
transition (right to left) to advance to the next slide. Visually, it
will look like one giant landscape-oriented slide, and you are panning
one quarter of the way at a time. In reality, it's four slides.

I learned this trick from Julie Terberg. Her site might have an
example: http://www.terbergdesign.com/home.htm

In the alternative, see this post: "Zooming Around" http://tonyramos.com/blog/?p=87
if you want true zooming in and out of the timeline.

Hope this helps!

Tony Ramos
http://tonyramos.com/blog