The best and most lasting growth comes when we move from our comfort zones. This presentation project was miles from mine. It made me understand how my mother felt when I gave her her first computer. I started the assignment excited because the project I chose was one that I wanted to do for a long time. The discomfort came from using tools that were very unfamiliar to me.
It my professional life, I spend all day long staring at a computer screen, but the time is spent writing queries or ddl or in ERwin designing databases. Even though I had designed hundreds of powerpoint presentations, I never used any of the fun frills like narration and slide timing or custom animation. With this assignment I used all of those and also stretched my creativity by learning a wireframe tool called MockFlow. The final step of the project, loading the presentation to the internet was a complete mystery to me. I am eternally grateful to the blog posters as I would never have figured it out without reading the posts.
I was reluctant to post my presentation for critique as it is a venture capital idea that I am actively pursuing (and you cannot copyright or patent an “idea”) however, self critiquing my presentation, I felt it had a very logical flow from idea to idea but that my transitions could have been smoother (both with my script and my narration tool). I shared information at a “30,000 foot” level as we say in IT. I felt that getting too technical would not hold the interest of venture capitalists.
As for anticipating questions, I did a high level idea presentation. It is my hope that there were unanswered process questions as I would hope to get to another meeting. The Purpose of the initial presentation was to spark interest in the idea. I also deliberately used minimal text and relied on narration. I felt that the photographs were the best way to get my point across about the diversity of choices and the need to be able to pare them down in a methodical manner.
While there are many things I will do differently in version 2 of this presentation, I feel I did a decent job of getting to the heart of my goal quickly and concisely. I am looking forward to refining this presentation and one day very soon presenting it to actual venture capitalists in a personal setting. I have a great deal of faith in this idea and I am fortunate to work with very talented developers and designers. I am going to bring this idea and this presentation to them and see if we can form the team to make this project a reality.
To view my Florida Staycation presentation, use the link :
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/tfortnash-874632-weekend-staycation/
It my professional life, I spend all day long staring at a computer screen, but the time is spent writing queries or ddl or in ERwin designing databases. Even though I had designed hundreds of powerpoint presentations, I never used any of the fun frills like narration and slide timing or custom animation. With this assignment I used all of those and also stretched my creativity by learning a wireframe tool called MockFlow. The final step of the project, loading the presentation to the internet was a complete mystery to me. I am eternally grateful to the blog posters as I would never have figured it out without reading the posts.
I was reluctant to post my presentation for critique as it is a venture capital idea that I am actively pursuing (and you cannot copyright or patent an “idea”) however, self critiquing my presentation, I felt it had a very logical flow from idea to idea but that my transitions could have been smoother (both with my script and my narration tool). I shared information at a “30,000 foot” level as we say in IT. I felt that getting too technical would not hold the interest of venture capitalists.
As for anticipating questions, I did a high level idea presentation. It is my hope that there were unanswered process questions as I would hope to get to another meeting. The Purpose of the initial presentation was to spark interest in the idea. I also deliberately used minimal text and relied on narration. I felt that the photographs were the best way to get my point across about the diversity of choices and the need to be able to pare them down in a methodical manner.
While there are many things I will do differently in version 2 of this presentation, I feel I did a decent job of getting to the heart of my goal quickly and concisely. I am looking forward to refining this presentation and one day very soon presenting it to actual venture capitalists in a personal setting. I have a great deal of faith in this idea and I am fortunate to work with very talented developers and designers. I am going to bring this idea and this presentation to them and see if we can form the team to make this project a reality.
To view my Florida Staycation presentation, use the link :
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/tfortnash-874632-weekend-staycation/
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