Congratulations are in order to the winners announced Tuesday among the more than 2500 entrants to Fuze Meeting‘s recent “Tell a Story” contest for designers and other creative users of Fuze and the web-based presentation sharing site Slide Share.
The $5,000 Grand Prize went to SlideShare user “slides2407” for the presentation “Drunkenomics – The Story of Bar Stool Economics”, while four additional category winners, including the makers of “Super Cool Dudes” (embedded above), who won for Best Design, collected iPhones and $100 iTunes Gift Cards.
SlideShare supports Keynote, PowerPoint, OpenOffice and PDF presentation formats and is one of the fastest-growing communities of presentation-sharing ideas on the web.
The contest was judged by a panel of business and technology luminaries including
- ♦ Don Tapscott – author or co-author of 13 widely read books, including Wikinomics, the best selling management book in the United States in 2007;
- ♦ Pete Cashmore – CEO of Mashable and a Top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007;
- ♦ Tony Hsieh – CEO of Zappos, an online show retailer with merchandise sales over $1 billion in 2008 by focusing relentlessly on customer service;
- ♦ Ann Handley – chief content officer of MarketingProfs and the MarketingProfs Daily Fix; and
- ♦ Om Malik – journalist with over 15 years experience covering technology and business; founder and senior writer of gigaom.com
