We’ve discussed the potential that whiteboard scribing videos hold in terms of educating and persuading consumers to purchase your products or services several times already on this blog – but don’t think that’s the only place they have value!
In fact, whiteboarding videos can be used anywhere that traditional Power Point presentations can be found, whether that includes internal sales enablement trainings, conference seminars and other demonstrations.
However, if you’re used to delivering your materials via Power Point, your biggest concern with the process will likely be how to integrate the two in a way that complements your message. The last thing you want is to find yourself standing at the podium, fiddling with your laptop and trying to get these two different technologies to play nice together.
Fortunately, you have a number of different options for integrating whiteboard scribing videos with Power Point presentations. The solution that’s right for you will depend on your presentation style, your technological savvy and the audience you’re delivering your message to.
The following are a few of the solutions you’ll want to consider:
Option #1 – Get rid of Power Point entirely
This option might sound scary (I almost didn’t lead with it), it’s only because business people today have been conditioned to use Power Point like a crutch. Instead of familiarizing ourselves with the message being delivered, we rely on boring slides filled with uninspired text, which we can click through and read out loud – rather than truly engage with our audience members.
The result of this standard presentation style isn’t surprising. Instead of an attentive, focused audience, you’ll wind up facing a room full of attendees who are either daydreaming about what they’ll do after your session or trying to sneakily check their mobile devices for any possible distraction! Either way, it’s not an ideal system for message understanding and retention.
If this scenario sounds all too familiar, you may benefit from eliminating Power Point entirely. Instead of throwing together yet another set of slides, set your message free with a whiteboard scribing video that conveys all the same information in a much more fun and exciting way.
Option #2 – Switch back and forth between the two
If you aren’t able to get away from Power Point entirely (either because you aren’t comfortable with this change or because the length/scope of your message makes whiteboarding the entire thing impractical), you can always alternate between both technologies.
For example, you could record an introductory message via whiteboarding video that will be played before the bulk of your Power Point presentation, as well as a video closing that’s played afterwards. Giving your presentation in this way will capture your audience’s attention initially, and then provide a compelling recap of your main points that’s more likely to stick with attendees than a traditional Power Point wrap-up.
Option #3 – Embed whiteboard videos within your Power Point presentation
Alternatively, if you’d like to break things up even further, consider embedding short whiteboarding presentations inside of your Power Point. If your presentation has several different objectives or sections, producing a short whiteboard video to complement each part of your speech may help to keep audiences attentive through the entire thing.
To do this, you’ll need to host your whiteboard videos online – either on your own website or on a separate video hosting account. Then, you’ll take a screen capture of each of your videos, embed it into the Power Point presentation and link out from the slide to the video. You’ll need to have an active internet connection to present in this way, but as long as this is the case, you’ll be able to switch between the two technologies without the hassle of loading separate video files every time.
If you’re interested in exploring which of these options is right for your unique situation, give us a call at 888-684-4944. We’ll walk you through the process of whiteboard video creation and show you exactly how this fascinating technology can be effectively integrated into your existing presentations.
PPT presentations exist for what…15 or 17 years now? They’re so expected (=boring). Not to mention that they’re distractive – if you do finally watch it as an audience you can’t read the presentation’s text and listen to the presenter at the same time.
It becomes ineffective. Most of those asking me to create Whiteboard videos usually use it for online viewers.
Combining short Whiteboard videos inside PPT presentations can definitely grab the attention of the audience.
So if I were a presenter I’d play the Whiteboard video in the beginning of my presentation just to grab everyone’s attention, and towards the end of my presentation.