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SPEAKER: Creating ideas from the ether
and then manifesting them into language
and images is quite an amazing journey, if I may say.
First, there's a process of translation
of thoughts and data, and then there's
consolidating all that raw expression,
until it's finally time to share that same mental model
with others.
Welcome to the third episode of this "Working From Home" series
where I would like to chat about how Google Sites and Slides can
help curate informational journeys for your audiences
in a succinct and rich manner.
Let's start with Google Slides.
Digital presentations have been around for a while.
And what makes Slides extremely helpful
is being able to curate information with more people,
even up to the last minute of sharing
it live, without having to email or download multiple versions.
You can revert to a prior version in a few clicks,
or assign people different parts via Comments.
And everything is auto-saved as you go, so
no more losing hours of work due to computer crashes.
The process of building a message
so that it can be consumed by others
is an energy and time-intensive process.
This is because you spend a great deal of time
narrowing a large body of information
down into simple and consumable concepts.
This also requires a great deal of empathy for the users
that will absorb that output.
For this reason, when building your slides,
it's great to think of it as a user journey,
and try to optimize the experiences people will
be left with and what call to action
you would like to inspire.
I am personally using Slides in this series, for example.
And I use speaker notes when I present
in other meetings or webinars.
I also design my slides as artifacts for others to reuse,
by making it shareable to anyone in my domain as a link.
And they can read the same notes.
One can also view history analytics
that are built into Slides to learn
more about how many people viewed your slide deck,
and then report that impact to your team.
So if it's brainstorming, presenting in meetings
or webinars, or creating self-service content alone
or with others, you can use Google Slides.
Now, if we continue to focus on the importance of a user's
experience with your content, it's
also key to think about how to centralize
multiple pieces of your project's content in one place,
as well as give people alternate ways
to consume your information.
This is where Google Sites comes in.
Sites is a drag-and-drop website that you can control access to,
like a Google Doc.
You insert things, like documents,
or images, videos, PDFs, supportive links,
or event calendars.
You focus on the content, and it focuses on the design
and optimizing the layout for you
so that it's viewed on mobile and tablets.
You can aggregate content in a one-stop fashion
for your project, your team, or for your entire organization.
You can even use it to build external campaigns, custom
sites with customers, project sites with volunteers,
or a public website for your organization
with a custom domain.
Additionally, what's nice about Sites
and Slides is that they're both searchable in Google
Drive and Cloud Search.
And you can also create shortened URLs for people
to remember how to access them faster.
If you're interested in learning more,
I have linked several resources in the description
of this video.
And community, if you've found this episode helpful,
please click Like and Subscribe for future episodes.
Cheers.
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