This weekend, I’ve had fun “playing” with another option for creating and sharing digital stories or multimedia presentations.

EMPRESSR is an effective online alternative for creating and/or sharing slide shows and multi-media presentations.  You can either upload images from your computer or import them from other online sources such as flickr, photobucket, Google Images, or Yahoo!.  EMPRESSR also allows you to import and include audio and video clips in your presentation.  Altogether, EMPRESSR is impressive for the versatility that it offers.

Slides can easily be edited and manipulated right with the application.  There is a good selection of transitions to choose from, and these can be adjusted and set very easily, either for the entire presentation or for individual slides.

The user interface of EMPRESSR is relatively intuitive and easy to learn for someone with experience creating multimedia presentations.  For the novice, however, it would be useful if the site developers would provide more by way of instruction and step-by-step tutorials.

EMPRESSR is not really a tool for collaboration, but it is typical of Web 2.0 applications that facilitate easy sharing and embedding elsewhere on the net.

I’ve embedded a slideshow that I put together with photos I took last Wednesday when my wife and I spent an afternoon in Victoria, BC.  I’m reasonably pleased with the finished product.  I didn’t attempt to add audio or video clips, but I did try out a variety of transitions and other features.

If you take the time to watch my empressr show, I welcome your comments.  I mention time because I used full size images, and the presentation takes a while to load.  It isn’t worth pressing the “Start  Presentation” button until most of the slides have loaded.