??PLEASE let speakers run slides on their own machines! 5 reasons why
Whether it's online or in-room, here're 5 reasons why doing otherwise is a bad idea.
1. You're forcing your speakers to annoy the audience!
"Next slide please," is extremely annoying to hear!
Every few seconds, presentation after presentation.
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2. You're making presenters powerless!
Every audience prefers to hear speakers who're in control, in power. By taking their slides away, you're taking their power away.
With each and every slide you're making them signal that they're your b**ch, that you're the one running the show! Is that what you want?
3. You're breaking the listener's flow!
The "next slide" commands followed by pauses create a wonderful opportunity for distractions.
The audience is nudged to do something else, to check that email that's waiting for them.
4. You're making presenters nervous!
Telling the right thing under the spotlight is hard enough.
On top of that, they now need to worry
- if you'll bring up the right slide at the right time,
- what their next slide is because they can't see their presenter view and
- they can't fall back on those few words they've put in their speaker notes just in case.
And imagine that Q&A where the speaker needs to go back to a certain slide but has no control over it!
5. You're forcing presenters to make slides busier!
Speakers will use fewer slides (to decrease clicking) but they'll likely put more stuff on them.
Busy slides that appear in one click are a nightmare!
The audience will read them at their own pace, losing the presenter's narrative.
Conclusion
Those are my 5 reasons to keep speakers in control of their own slides.
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3 年They can take our lives but they will never take our slides! ??
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3 年This is a tricky one. Your points are valid when there is only one presenter presenting (online or offline). But what do you suggest for one single online presentation that is being presented by three or more different people? To switch who is sharing their own screen two or more times? Going through the process of finding that button one needs to click in order to start presenting from the current slide on and making this process visible to the audience?
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3 年fully agree ;)