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Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by tweetle_beetle »

I find it interesting that real time collaboration is now a headline feature appearing in all sorts of products.

I feel like everyone likes to think that their job is more creative than it really is - little work really happens in "the kind of spontaneous collaboration and free flow of ideas that many of us took advantage of when working in a shared space with our team.".

I've been involved in many presentations remotely with multiple people on Google Slides and it always ends up a bit of a mess. There's alway someone ignoring the style guide, no one is really sure when a slide is finished, orphaned comments left ignored, etc.

I know this is blaming the tool for the way it is used, but I can't help but feel that the tool is contributing to the problem. In my experience, 9 times out of 10 delegating sections of content with a final edit and sign off by a designated individual would work very well - no real time collaboration needed.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by andrewingram »

beavis-sinatra wrote: post #20
jim90 wrote: post #16

Disclaimer, I work at Pitch! Thought I'd mention we are hiring :) https://pitch.com/about#hiring

Ditto on the disclaimer but wanted to emphasize that all jobs are remote-friendly!

Since you're Berlin-based, is internal communication done in German? Asking because I don't speak it, so that might be a factor for me!

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by jim90 »

tweetle_beetle wrote: post #41

I find it interesting that real time collaboration is now a headline feature appearing in all sorts of products. I feel like everyone likes to think that their job is more creative than it really is - little work really happens in "the kind of spontaneous collaboration and free flow of ideas that many of us took advantage of when working in a shared space with our team.". I've been involved in many presentations remo…

> In my experience, 9 times out of 10 delegating sections of content with a final edit and sign off by a designated individual would work very well - no real time collaboration needed.

So that's actually how we do our internal weekly presentation. Each team has a section, and we all work on it. (Albeit in realtime)

> no one is really sure when a slide is finished

You can assign slides in pitch and update their status. So everyone knows who is responsible for something and what state it is in.

https://help.pitch.com/en/articles/4318642-set-a-status-and-...

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

#45

Post by rnernento »

As someone who regularly uses Powerpoint but isn't completely in love with it I don't see anything compelling on your home screen that makes me care about Pitch.

If there is some killer feature I don't know about it should be made more prominent. What I'm seeing is real time collaboration - which is already possible with Office 365 and some supposedly great templates. Switching software is a pain, so you better give me a good reason to.

It seems like you're squandering an opportunity to use Pitch to pitch me Pitch.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

#46

Post by agentdrtran »

dchuk wrote: post #11

So I REALLY don’t mean this to be cynical, but: other than this clearly being a beautiful product, and I guess the simple fact that it’s just not a Google product, what exactly does this bring to the table that Google slides doesn’t already do? I say this as a guy who spends a lot of time in Google slides, both on my own presentations as well as collaborating on group ones, and it works pretty much perfectly. If I we…

This offers support for custom fonts which Google Slides doesn't, which is a big deal for a lot of people.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

#47

Post by liamcardenas »

artembugara wrote: post #29

Many people here asking for an example. Here's a real example of a pre-seed pitch deck that I'm using for my meetings with investors [1]. I'll explain why I like Pitch. I am a first time founder. I am a technical guy who have to be a jack-of-all-trades for the past 6 months. I am a type of guy who's really bad at designing slides. Leave me with PowerPoint or Google Presentation and you'll see the ugliest presentation…

What makes Pitch better than purchasing templates? For instance, you can find professionally designed templates here [1].

[1] https://graphicriver.net/popular_item/by_category?category=p...

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

#48

Post by artembugara »

liamcardenas wrote: post #47
artembugara wrote: post #29

Many people here asking for an example. Here's a real example of a pre-seed pitch deck that I'm using for my meetings with investors [1]. I'll explain why I like Pitch. I am a first time founder. I am a technical guy who have to be a jack-of-all-trades for the past 6 months. I am a type of guy who's really bad at designing slides. Leave me with PowerPoint or Google Presentation and you'll see the ugliest presentation…

What makes Pitch better than purchasing templates? For instance, you can find professionally designed templates here [1]. [1] https://graphicriver.net/popular_item/by_category?category=p...

For me it's simply the fact that I do not have to pay a dime.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

#49

Post by socksy »

andrewingram wrote: post #42
beavis-sinatra wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto on the disclaimer but wanted to emphasize that all jobs are remote-friendly!

Since you're Berlin-based, is internal communication done in German? Asking because I don't speak it, so that might be a factor for me!

Even outside of the IT sector, I think the majority of the communication in Berlin is done in English. But in IT, English is definitely the lingua franca worldwide.
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