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A new episode of The Presentation Podcast is available today! Troy, Nolan and Sandy share their learnings of working on a co-authored presentation, hosted on Microsoft Teams. 

…if I’m going to get dragged kicking and screaming into the world of (Microsoft) Teams, I’m happy to have you do it.
– Nolan Haims in an email to Troy Chollar

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify and Soundcloud – just search for The Presentation Podcast for “Being a Remote Presenter (with Ken Molay)” or go direct to the episode page here: https://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/102

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast is available today! Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by Richard Goring of BrightCarbon, Mike Parkinson of Billion Dollar Graphics, and Cliff Kennedy of Kennedy Speech Communications for a great episode! This conversation is about slide design and presenting techniques of remote presenting.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify and Soundcloud – just search for The Presentation Podcast for “Being a Remote Presenter (with Ken Molay)” or go direct to the episode page here: https://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/101

With this challenge, not only did our design team have to put together some amazing design, but they had to do it all working in Microsoft Teams! So part of this design challenge was our design team all being forced into the world of Microsoft Teams for file management (we have been using Teams for calls, meetings and presenting, but now transitioning to incorporating it file management, editing and communication). 

For our design challenge #4 a master slide deck was uploaded to the Teams project “channel”. Slide 1 was the base boring bullet list of black text on a white background. Each designer had an assigned slide, with zero design applied.

Each designer was challenged to develop their own slide with the same base content, but any layout and visuals they envisioned. Again, based on a Microsoft Teams workflow, the catch was all design had to be done from the shared presentation. No downloading, and not keeping the file connected to the Teams version!

Work from the master slide deck on Microsoft Teams. Slide 1 is the content, and everyone has a slide for design assigned. Develop your version of an original (boring) slide with images, graphics, and visual layout. Use any color scheme and font options, but no animation needed. You cannot download the PowerPoint file to your computer, you can work directly in Teams version of PowerPoint, PowerPoint online or PowerPoint on your computer – but it must always be worked on as a shared file.

Check back later this week to see what each design did to turn the boring slide content to a WOW slide!

I am very proud of the creativity on our design team. Our internal COVID-19 design challenge put that creativity to the test. The design team was presented with a few design parameters, a simple and very vague slide animation request, and given 2 hours to create amazing. See you Monday with the results!

Here is COVID Design Challenge #3, “40 Lines”. The full name should be “40 lines and 5 slides”. Creating a dynamic animation with 40 lines across the 5 slides. The lines can be any color, any length, any position, any arrangement, any width. Additional content or accent graphics can be added to the slides, but the 40 lines need to be the star.

Remember back as a kid and the teacher had all the kids sit in a circle, whispered a sentence to the student sitting next them, then that student whispered the sentence to the next kid and the next, next, next. Finally the teacher announced what they had said, and the heard and the last student announced what they heard – which was very different. It was “The Telephone Game”!

For the TLC Creative presentation design we created the PowerPoint version of The Telephone Game. Everyone is designing this quote, starting with this very boring bullet list slide:

We then drew names for a random order. The first designer was able to create any slide design they wanted. The next designer created their own version of the slide BUT had to incorporate at least 1 element from the previous designers version! The results are amazing and show that there is no limit to creativity!

See you Monday when the TLC Creative COVID-19 Design Challenge #2 results are revealed!

Troy @ TLC 

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast is available today! Troy, Nolan, and Sandy are joined by Ken Molay of Webinar Success. They talk about how to create and deliver remote presentations, hardware and software platforms, and tips, tips and more tips!

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify and Soundcloud – just search for The Presentation Podcast for “Being a Remote Presenter (with Ken Molay)” or go direct to the episode page here: https://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/99

The TLC Creative Services Presentation Design Team was given this simple/vague/be creative challenge: 

Design a slide, or set of slides (up to 3 max), that integrates an amazing animation based on 6 circles. A “circle” is open to you to decide what that is. They can be small to large, any thickness, format, colors and styling effects. Your slide can be colorful, dark, monochrome – again, your design choice. Create an fantastic visual design, with even better animation.

See you tomorrow with the results!

Like the rest of the world, the TLC Creative Services studio has transitioned. 3 weeks ago it was a lively design studio with everyone together. Today, we have everyone working remote from their homes. Because we have had a number of design projects cancel, or postpone to the Fall, we have started our own internal presentation design challenges to keep us all from going stir crazy! So, welcome to the TLC Creative Services COVID-19 Design Challenge!

Check back tomorrow for details on Challenge #1!