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Design Efficiency

Isn’t designing a relational network a lot more work than building regular slide shows? Yes, initially this is true. The starting structure takes time to design and build, just like assembling a medium- or large-sized Web site. There is a certain amount of up-front development necessary.

However, a wonderful advantage of Relational Presentation is that content is strategically built to be used over and over again. Once the core structure is built, it is fully reusable in multiple contexts. Again, think about a Web site or database. Preliminary construction activities take time to plan and implement. Once in place, however, this information is accessible to many different people, for various reasons. In other words, the usefulness, versatility, and power of the end result justifies the initial outlay of time and resources.

A relational, reusable approach to presentation content ends up being more efficient over time compared with making new slide shows for each performance. Once a multipurpose slide is added to a network, it is always available and doesn’t have to be created, copied, or moved each time.