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powerpoint karaoke

Posted: June 12th, 2006 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: social networking |

One of my colleagues at the conference asked me if I’d ever done Powerpoint Karaoke. I said I’d never heard of it, and he was incredulous: apparently it’s a big bar game in Germany. (He thought they’d ganked it from the US, but I was pretty sure I’d have heard of it if so).

Anyway, I was right, it’s definitely a German invention. It basically involves downloading random ppts from the web, the more obscure the better (I would think the RFID tag/mark of the beast deck would be a good starter). Participants have to improvise a presentation along with the PPT, having no idea, of course, what slide is to come next. I have a feeling I’d be good at this game, but it doesn’t seem to have caught on in this country, even here in the ultranerdy SF bay area. Flickr brings up almost exclusively German pix.

Any suggestions? Or does anyone in the Bay Area want to help me put on such an incredibly dorky event?

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8 Comments on “powerpoint karaoke”

  1. 1 Kathrin said at 6:43 pm on June 12th, 2006:

    In fact, Powerpoint Karaoke was invented by Holm Friebe (Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur) and held for the very first time in Berlin on January 25th, 2006 (most of the flickr pictures you mention were taken on that day). There have been maybe ten Powerpoint Karaoke evenings since, some hosted by ZIA, some by copycats, but right now Powerpoint Karaoke is far from being “a big bar game in Germany”. Still, it might yet happen!

  2. 2 alicetiara said at 10:08 am on June 13th, 2006:

    Wow, thanks for the info! Everything I know about PPT karaoke I learned from one guy at this conference, so his impression may have been exaggerated :) But I’m glad to find the origins, because I’m super interested in doing a similar event in the Bay Area.

  3. 3 Powerpoint Karaoke « x5.log said at 5:41 pm on February 12th, 2007:

    [...] 刚刚在网上看到 Powerpoint Karaoke ，感觉仍然是个很赞的“游戏”，它的基本规则就是：一堆人在一起，大家从网上下载一些 ppt ，每个人随机抽取一个 ppt ，然后就即兴演讲。最大的乐趣，莫过于你所抽取的 ppt 与你所研究／熟悉的方向相距十万八千里。传说这个游戏在德国很流行。这是一个相当锻炼应变能力和表达能力的游戏。如果现在的那些“杀人酒吧”能提供这个服务，想毕一定会得到中央的扶持和群众的拥护:D [...]

  4. 4 Lalit Patel said at 2:34 am on July 11th, 2007:

    Just for your information.
    I have created a Powerpoint Karaoke App using the http://www.slideshare.net API.

    You can see it at: http://www.slidesharetoys.com/karaoke

    Cheers!

  5. 5 Martina said at 1:51 am on August 11th, 2008:

    One of my colleagues at the conference asked me if I’d ever done Powerpoint Karaoke.

  6. 6 Martina said at 2:01 am on August 13th, 2008:

    I like this product and i like it very much Thank you.

  7. 7 Строитель said at 12:41 am on September 26th, 2009:

    Я так и думал, автор спасибо)

  8. 8 Apex said at 3:43 am on August 6th, 2010:

    喜歡O(∩_∩)O

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