Lets assume a typical meeting scenario at office. Senior executives in India have a presentation to deliver to UK clients and to save costs it is happening over a call! Assuming that you have a powerpoint presentation to share with your clients, which can be done in many ways
- You email it to your clients
- You upload it to teamviewer or a software
PowerPoint brings you a pretty awesome Broadcast Presentation feature. It runs the presentation online just as you were delivering the presentation live! minus the PHYSICAL YOU! Lets take a dive..
Let’s say we have a Presentation
Download this Presentation Assume this presentation is to be shared with the UK Client. By the way this presentation is a part of one of my consulting projects for a client who wanted to raise venture capital for his company. Free free to take ideas from it!
Broadcasting Presentation
- Go to the Slide Show Tab and click on Present Online (in PowerPoint 2013) or Broadcast Slide Show (in PowerPoint 2010)
- It will run a small setup and give you a link to share with your audience. Send that link to as many people as you want to invite to view the presentation
- The audience just need a simple web-browser (Chome / Internet Explorer) to view the Presentation
- Click on START PRESENTATION. As you advance the slides on your computer the slides transitions online (with animation)
A separate tab PRESENT ONLINE appears with this option. When you are done presenting online you can simply click on End Online Presentation
Prerequisites for Broadcasting
- This feature is only available in PowerPoint 2010 and above !
- You need to have a Microsoft account (i.e. Hotmail, Msn, Outlook, Live etc).
- If you are not logged in, Present Online option will ask you log-in, before you can present the slide show online
- And of course, you need to be connected to the internet!
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- Using a Slide Master in Presentations – For speed and consistency
- The 3 Musketeers in PowerPoint – Awesome shortcuts
- 10 Rookie Mistakes to avoid while making Presentations – Video