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Note: This post has been updated to reflect the new publishing flow in Haiku Deck 2.0, which now offers in-app privacy controls. If you have not yet updated your app, be sure to do that here. For getting-started Haiku Deck help, check out the Haiku Deck Tutorial.

You have complete control over the privacy of your Haiku Decks, even those that are published to the web. We offer three privacy settings:

Public – Your deck may show up in search results and may be selected for our galleries, to be viewed by anyone who visits the Haiku Deck website
Restricted – Only people who have the link to your deck can view it
Private – Only you can view your deck

You can now specify and update your privacy settings right from the app, as well as from the website.

Setting Privacy from the App

1.  From your iPad, tap SHARE. (Tip: Read more about publishing and sharing here.)

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Note: This post has been updated to reflect the recent release of Haiku Deck 2.0, which now saves decks to the web before exporting to PowerPoint or Keynote. If you haven’t yet updated your app, be sure to do that here.

We’ve worked hard to make it easy to share your Haiku Deck any way you want, on any device–from your iPad to your laptop to your smartphone. Though there are many advantages to Haiku Deck’s mobile-friendly and lightweight HTML 5 capabilities, we understand that sometimes you need to share via more traditional means. Other popular reasons for exporting to PowerPoint or Keynote include embedding video, adding presenter notes, or turning the file into an iMovie with an audio soundtrack, like this.

You can export to the .pptx format right from the Haiku Deck app, and open the files using more recent editions of Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote.

Haiku Deck on Center Stage

How To Export Your Haiku Deck to PowerPoint or Keynote

1. After you create your deck, tap SHARE from the Main screen. You can also do this by tapping the SHARE arrow icon from EDIT mode (toward the lower left corner) or from PLAY mode (top right corner). (more…)

Most of the time when you export from Haiku Deck to PowerPoint, the “.pptx” file will appear as an email attachment that you can just email to yourself and then open on a computer with PowerPoint or Keynote. If your Haiku Deck coverts to a PowerPoint file that is too large to email, we put the file in the iPad’s file sharing storage system and you have to retrieve it manually. Here are the steps to do it:

1. Plug your iPad into your laptop or desktop computer via the standard USB cable that it came with
2. Open iTunes on your laptop/desktop
3. After a few seconds you will see the iPad under “Devices” in the left-side navigation panel of iTunes and it should start to synch
4. Wait for the iPad to finish synching
5. Once it has finished, click on the device in the left navigation panel of iTunes.
   
6. Click the apps tab near top/center of iTunes.
   
7. Scroll down to the File sharing section (below where you see “sync apps”) .
8. Find Haiku Deck in the File sharing list and click it.
   
9. Your Haiku Deck exports will appear in the list of Haiku Deck documents
10. Select the deck you want and click the “save to” button below the list of files

When we set out to make Haiku Deck we had a few product goals. “Make it easy” topped the list, along with “deliver flawless beauty.” With these in hand, we sat down to establish benchmarks for measuring our success. During that meeting I joked that I would know we had achieved our goal of making Haiku Deck easy if my mom could create a deck without needing to call me for technical support. Don’t get me wrong- my mom is an intelligent, creative, and incredibly talented woman. She raised not one, but two ”computer genius” sons (neither of us can write a line of code), she runs a medical office entirely by computer (1980′s era, no less), and she had the foresight to buy her sons an Apple II+ when all they wanted was an Atari. All this, and mom makes a brisket famous the world over.

Like lots of moms and dads out there, she didn’t grow up around computers and can’t always make sense of them. So we kept mom in mind when we were designing Haiku Deck.

When I told mom about our meeting and how we tried to build a product that she could enjoy using without a technical support call, she responded with the most delicous deck we’ve seen yet. When I asked her if we could share it on the blog she said, “Sure, just as long as you don’t call me for technical support when you’re making the brisket.”

We’re proud to showcase Haiku Deck tonight at Ignite Seattle 17. Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. Since then Ignite events have sprung up the world-over. Each Ignite speaker gets 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide. Yikes! Our talk is entitled “Bullet Control Now,” a homage to Chris Rock’s argument that if bullets cost $5000 each, people would think twice about killing one another. We couldn’t agree more and we think the idea ought to be extended to bullet points too. We hope you enjoy the deck and we’ll post a link to the video as soon as it’s available. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

One of our favorite ways to use Haiku Deck is to take great blog posts and bring them to life by matching key points with awesome images. Recently we were honored by Brad Feld (investor, entrepreneur, and mentor extraordinaire) who reposted our summary of his thoughts on Marketing.  This got us to wondering… What’s your favorite blog post of all time? Is there one that makes you laugh? Cry? Taught you something new? Send us a link at info@haikudeck.com and we’ll consider making a Haiku Deck homage to the post here.

We believe everyone has great ideas and fascinating stories itching to get out. We also believe that crafting ideas and releasing them into the wild should be a joyful exercise of creativity. In the age of smartphones, tablets, and web connectivity, sharing thoughts is easier than ever, but getting people to listen? That’s another challenge completely. We also believe that listeners deserve to be captivated and inspired, not filled with despair at the sight of another dull presentation.

This is why we set out to create Haiku Deck, a simple way to instantly unleash your ideas through beautiful decks that are as visually stunning as they are easy to create. Haiku Deck’s image search engine spurs your creativity by providing a beautiful photographic backdrop to accompany your written words. We suggest related terms to help you find the perfect image and we even let you use your own photos if that’s what you want. Haiku Deck also includes easy-to-use design filters, helping you pick the perfect look for your deck, without requiring any design skills. Our goal is to make you look your best, every time you share.

Lastly, we know that inspiration can strike any time. Wherever you feel like crafting a Haiku Deck, just pull out your iPad. And whenever you have an audience–whether it’s on the bus, at a cafe, in a conference room, in an elevator, or on a stage, your Haiku Deck is there for you.

Most presentation tools aim to pack in as many features as possible with complicated menus, toolbars, and a range of capabilities to address every possible use case. Haiku Deck is intentionally simplified. We’ve focused on making it fast and easy to create the kind of decks you share every day. Here are a few ways you can use it to set your story free. We can’t wait for you to try Haiku Deck and send us your feedback at founders@haikudeck.com.

Six seconds. That is, on average, how long you need to work on your abs. It is also how long recruiters spend scanning your resume before they decide to keep or toss it. (Read the cold, hard truth here.) It doesn’t seem fair when you’ve probably spent six hours or even six days or weeks crafting your masterpiece, but that’s the reality.

photo by seamus_walsh
 

We’ve spotted some helpful articles explaining how to optimize your resume for speed-of-light scanning, such as 10 Ways to Craft Your Resume for Ultra-Short Attention Spans, from Fast Company, and How to Make Your Resume Last Longer than 6 Seconds, from Time. And while we get the importance of maximizing white space and stripping out distracting details, we also believe there’s a time and a place for personality, creativity, and fun.

Our challenge: Try using Haiku Deck to create a visual resume. Sure, you’ll probably need a “real” one, too, but there might be times when a creative twist will help you stand out from the crowd. Here’s mine. And we’d love to see yours–you can post your links in the comments.

(By the way, we’re hiring! Send us your resume at jobs@haikudeck.com)