Yes and no. It’s quite possible to leave your existing materials exactly as they are and simply link them together to form an interconnected network. However, you will likely want to modify your existing shows—perhaps significantly.

A case in point is that some of your existing content might contain identical copies of slides (perhaps common introductory or conclusion slides). An effective strategy is to eliminate all the duplication and, therefore, have only one instance of any given slide, in one location. Then you simply navigate to that material when needed, regardless of which slide show you happen to be in at the moment. In general, your network never should contain duplicate slides.

You might also want to divide long shows into short segments (modules) so that individual ideas can be displayed in any order, in different contexts. These kinds of decisions are made during the network planning process.