Presentations are slowly becoming more and more a part of the professional life of DMN Communications. Aaron and I have found that we enjoy presentations — both giving them and the process or creating them.

I’ll be giving a presentation next month at DocTrain East 2008. Usually, the process that Aaron and I use to develop a presentation is:

1. Create an outline
2. Write the script for the presentation
3. Build the slides

This time around, I took a different approach — I built the slides and am writing the script around the slides. In essence, I’m building the story around the images in the slides.

Strangely enough, the process has been working. Using the outlines and the slides I’ve been able to write a pretty good script. I’m still in the process of refining it, but the results are better than I expected.

The problem I had was creating the slides. I don’t like slideuments, and tend to follow the advice of presentation guru Garr Reynolds. I’m not the most visual person, and finding the right images was a bit of a challenge.

I’ll know on October 31st whether or not this process was successful. Check this space around that time for either a success story or a lament on screwing up.

Do you give presentations? If so, what’s you’re process? Feel free to leave a comment.

Related posts:

1. Freshening up your presentations
2. Presentations are a lot like the blues
3. Building presentations, from the ground up – part 2