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> If you're presenting slides, you want your audience to see which slide you are on - you don't want to hope that they manage to navigate to the right place in
by JadeNB 7y ago
> If you're presenting slides, you want your audience to see which slide you are on - you don't want to hope that they manage to navigate to the right place in their copy of your slides.
Isn't this addressed by the following?
> Some co-workers suggested the drawback that it might be annoying to try to stay synchronized with the speaker. It didn't take me long to get in the habit of saying “Next slide, #18” or whatever as I moved through the talk. If you try this, be sure to put numbers on the slides! (This is a good practice anyway, I have found.) I don't know if my audience found it annoying.
- pwinnski 7y agoIt is mitigated, but still an issue, IMO.
- blunte 7y agoIt may depend somewhat on the speaker as well as the audience, but in my experience audience members zone in and out during meetings. The mostly-passive attendee may have little interest, but if the slides are changing automatically (by your action), then it's possible a new slide my grab their attention. If you leave it up to them, some of them will never flip past the first slide on their own.