Create Stand-Alone Presentations
that satisfy the needs
of the audience who attends your presentation and
those who receive the presentation electronically
There is a new
audience presenters have to consider today – the non-present
audience. Travel cuts and overbooking have left presenters
with two audiences: the ones who could come to the meeting and those
who couldn’t. The ones who couldn’t attend still need the
presentation, but they have to receive it electronically.
Presenters feel caught between two choices, neither of which is going
to satisfy both audiences. If they use persuasive visuals,
the live audience is engaged and informed, but the non-present audience
misses the depth of the message. If they pack their slides
with text, those receiving the slide deck later can read through it and
know what was said, but the live audience suffers through a boring
presentation.
At the Presentation Summit conference in the fall of 2010, I delivered
a one-hour session showing four techniques for creating presentations
that work for both live and non-present audiences. I recorded
the entire session and you can now get the recording so you too can
solve the problem of trying to serve two audiences.
Here’s what you will learn from this session:
How to create a presentation that has
both persuasive visuals and additional details so you don’t have to
create a second set of slides or a separate document (because I know
you don’t have the time to do all that extra work)
How to use hidden slides to allow the
details to be printed and seen after the live presentation, but not
bore the live audience
How to create a self-running
presentation that opens automatically from an e-mail so the recipient
has a movie-like experience (great for sales presentations where you
want the full effect of the powerful visuals you created)
How to create a website-like
presentation that allows the recipient to navigate the presentation in
the order and depth they want to (saving them time wading through the
whole deck looking for they key information they are interested in)
How to create a video of your
presentation that can be posted online for others to view and review
(you can upload to an Intranet site or even make it public on YouTube)
All of the techniques
are explained and then I demonstrated exactly how
to create the end result in PowerPoint. It is just like you
are sitting beside me at my computer watching me show you
step-by-step. I captured every step in this video for
you. Since the video plays in a standard media player, you
can pause the video at any time and try what you just saw in your own
version of PowerPoint. I use PowerPoint 2007 in the video,
but the techniques work in all versions of PowerPoint.
Here are the first five minutes of the video where you will see the
issue in more depth and the four techniques that are covered in the
video.
I only use plain vanilla PowerPoint, so don’t worry that you’ll see
some add-ins that you don’t have access to. Many attendees at
the session commented that they had never heard of the great free video
tools I demonstrated in the fourth technique. I know you
probably can’t download and install outside software on your corporate
laptop, but you don’t need to. The video editor I showed is a
freely available web application that you run in your
browser! A number of people said they wanted to start
checking it out immediately.
I’ve never gone in to the depth of explanation on these four techniques
as I did during this session. I gave a complete step-by-step
explanation so you can follow easily and create your own stand alone
presentations. You won’t find this depth of information on
these topics in any other product I offer.
The video is at full XGA resolution so you can clearly see every detail
of my screen as I demonstrated each technique. I saved the
file in the standard Windows Media Video format that runs on virtually
any media player, so you know it will play when you download
it. After you complete the purchase, you’ll get the download
link by e-mail so you can start learning and using these ideas immediately.
Dealing with this issue of two audiences is the single most frequently
asked question I have had during my workshops in the last 12
months. It is a bigger and bigger problem for many
organizations and individual presenters. I want everyone to
be able to use these techniques to make their PowerPoint presentations
more effective, so I’m only asking $29 for this video. Click
this link to place your order and start downloading the video right
away.