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Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 01 (Screencast)

Original Publication Date: Friday, September 4, 2009
Filed Under: Mark Miller, Workshops
SharePoint User Level: General Interest

 

Delivering SharePoint presentations to End Users, whether Information Workers, Power Users or Site Administrators, can be dry and boring as hell. Not only that, with the amount of information that most people try to transfer to the participants, it’s a wonder they can absorb anything.

I’ve been at conferences with 3500 people in one room and have not been able to read the slide deck from the sixth row because the font was set small enough to accommodate 16 bullet points. You’ve seen it… I know you have.

I’m putting together a set of screencasts based upon the EndUserSharePoint.com Train the Trainer Series that talks about things to consider when developing a slide deck. The first screencast below is an example of how a template can be used to chunk out information so that the content can be easily absorbed without getting brain overload.

I hope you’ll find these screencasts thought provoking and will add to the discussion as the series continues. The next screencast in this series will show a complete slide deck for presenting “Lists and Libraries” to SharePoint Information Workers, using the proposed template.

If you are responsible for providing in-house training to your SharePoint End Users, I am delivering a live online workshop series, EndUserSharePoint.com: Train the Trainer, starting on September 28th. This set of five workshops will provide you will all the material you need for getting your in-house Information Workers up to speed on SharePoint.

Mark Miller, Founder and Editor
EndUserSharePoint.com

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5 Responses to “Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 01 (Screencast)”

  1. Frank on September 4th, 2009 2:48 pm

    Mark,
    This is almost the same as we learn in the Army.
    1. Tell them what you are going to tell them.
    2. Tell them.
    3. Tell them what you just told them.
    Our ‘Rule of thumb’ for PowerPoint is 7 and 7.
    7 bullets or 7 lines to equal 49 words per slide.
    Some people forget that PowerPoint is an ‘Outline’ of the what you are talking about.

  2. Colleen Parker on September 5th, 2009 10:53 am

    Mark,
    This is a nice simple way to explain a concept that so many overlook.

    Thank you

  3. EndUserSharePoint on September 5th, 2009 7:44 pm

    Frank – Have to disagree with the Army on that one, and you’ll see why in the next couple screencasts. The use of bullets points is a detriment to good presentations. My theory, and practice, is that combining bullets points with spoken text falls flat on several counts. Stay tuned… — Mark

  4. Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 02 (Screencast) | End User SharePoint on September 9th, 2009 1:44 pm

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