{"id":762,"date":"2010-11-25T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T09:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2010-11-25T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T09:19:41","slug":"cant-copy-presentations-well-you-can-but-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/cant-copy-presentations-well-you-can-but-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Copy Presentations! Well, you can, but don’t!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m talking here, about copying slides from one slidedeck to another, be that in PowerPoint, Keynote or anything else. \u00c2\u00a0And obviously I don’t mean that you should never, ever do it, but I’d urge you to think long and hard before you do.<\/p>\n

I read a post recently where a specialist in PowerPoint training (rather than presenting) suggested that everyone had a basic presentation and just built variations around that theme. \u00c2\u00a0To me, that just about sums up the whole mindset associated with PowerPoint, but that might just be me! \u00c2\u00a0:) \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0The idea was to use the time you saved to do other ‘more important’ stuff… such as standing by the company water cooler. \u00c2\u00a0Perhaps that last bit was a joke.<\/p>\n

Yeah, probably.<\/p>\n

Thing is, though, when you’re writing a presentation, there’s nothing more important than your audience – not the water cooler, not your boss… nothing.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m all for doing things as quickly as possible (it’s one of the reasons I use Keynote, not Powerpoint, after all) but the key words there are “as quickly as possible” because by that I mean that you can do things as quickly as possible within the standards of a good presentation<\/strong>. \u00c2\u00a0A quick-fire\/copy-&-paste mentality isn’t going to do that, I’m afraid.<\/p>\n

For all presentations you should start with the three standard questions (or another method of designing your presentation) and build from their. \u00c2\u00a0You sure as little green apples shouldn’t start from what slides you’ve got and build from that<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

My three questions, by the way are<\/p>\n

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  1. What does my audience already know?<\/li>\n
  2. What do they need to know?<\/li>\n
  3. What do I need to tell them (and how should I do that?)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    …. but they’re the basis of another post.\u00c2\u00a0 All I want to emphasise here is that using them (or your own versions of them) is different from starting from the point of<\/p>\n

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    1. What have I got lie-ing around on my hard drive?<\/li>\n
    2. How quickly can I get something assembled that looks acceptable?<\/li>\n
    3. What do I want to tell my audience about?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I’m talking here, about copying slides from one slidedeck to another, be that in PowerPoint, Keynote or anything else. \u00c2\u00a0And obviously I don’t mean that you should never, ever do it, but I’d urge you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-blog-related","category-powerpoint-and-other-packages","category-presentation-tips","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}