Visually interactive presentation works especially well on a large scale, at the corporate or organizational level. Here’s why.

If a company has a hundred salespeople, for example, it’s kind of silly for all of them to be making their own presentation materials. Most won’t have adequate graphic design skills, for one thing, and they’ll probably end up wasting time duplicating slides similar to what their colleagues are making, because of not coordinating and sharing resources. A salesperson’s time and expertise is better spent selling, not designing slides.

A much more cost-effective and time-efficient approach is have a group of developers analyze the company’s communication needs, plan a high-quality, multi-user presentation platform, and then build it for flexible use by all—the sales team, trainers, managers, and executives. That way, core value slides are created only once, with superior quality, and made available as part of a comprehensive interactive content management collection, useable by potentially hundreds of people. The savings of resources can be substantial, and all presentation materials display agreed-upon quality control standards and branding requirements. Such a platform is like a very large template that speakers move around within at will to deliver customized messages.

We call this level of visual interactivity Relational Presentation because you end up with a powerfully organized collection of individual, related slide shows similar to a relational database. A presenter accesses any slide, in any show, and very quickly moves to any other slide in any other show. Relational Presentation takes visually interactive communication to its highest plateau. Contact an Aspire representative for more details on developing such a platform.

While working with corporate clients, we use a process called the Seven Phases to systematically plan, construct, and test large-scale platform development. Find a more detailed discussion of the seven phases process in the Products and Services section in this Web site in the Development Projects link.

Keep in mind, also, that individual presenters benefit similarly from organizing materials into a comprehensive content management system. For example, you might create a video area containing all clips needed for any given performance, organized by category, or a documents section to hold all presentation-related PDF, Word or Excel files, or a picture library. In all cases, anything needed is usually available within one to three clicks.

A finishing, professional touch is to add animated navigation to slide shows, so that menu options fade in as needed and otherwise disappear. Advanced tutorials in the workshops area show you how to build Video switchboards, PDF switchboards, Animated navigation, and more.

Believe it or not, everything discussed in the video clips you have been watching has been possible in PowerPoint for many years. You just have to know the necessary design tricks.

We wish you the best in your journey to becoming visually fluent with interactive presentation. Thanks for watching and contact us here if we can be of further assistance.