PowerPoint Online

Tips for Creating and Presenting a Great Online PowerPoint Presentation

Here are five more tips that you should consider when creating and presenting your online PowerPoint presentation. Presenting PowerPoint slides online present different challenges than presenting in person.

Organization

Keep your presentation organized and in a logical order. You want to start with a main topic and then become more specific as you go on. If your topics and chronological order jump back and forth, you will confuse your audience.

Keep Your Slides to a Minimum

Your slides are only there to help illustrate the point or message that you are trying to convey. If you have too many slides or too much information, your audience is going to become uninterested. Unlike presentations that occur in person, online PowerPoint presentations mean that the audience can stop paying attention altogether without being rude to the presenter. You need to keep you audience interested and engaged throughout the presentation.

Speak clearly

When presenting online, voice quality may vary, so it is important to speak loud and clearly so that your audience can hear you. Try to be enthusiastic about your topic and use inflection where appropriate. If you seem disinterested in your material, so will your audience.

Allow time for questions

Make sure that you allow time at the end of your presentation to field questions from your online audience. Many web conferencing tools like InstantPresenter allow audience members to send in questions during the presentation that you can field immediately, or save until the end of the presentation.

Handouts at the end of the presentation

Depending on the material or audience you are presenting to, you may want to send out additional material to you audience for them to review after your presentation. If you do plan to send handouts or pamphlets, let your audience know at the beginning that they will receive material at the end. This will help keep them connected to your presentation. Also be careful not to give them the material before the presentation, because they may feel that they then don’t need to participate in the actual presentation.