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so.
A friend and I have been working on a prototype for a product that we think is kind of interesting and as someone who gives a lot of presentations,
does a lot of speaking engagements I thought you might be interested in it.
And just in general,
be interested in it.
So I'll walk you through it quickly.
So think about the last presentation you gave.
Maybe it was at an event recently or a conference,
just anything in front of a live audience.
Once it was over and people asked you ya know,
"Hey!
Can you share it?
" or "I missed the talk",
ya know...
"what can you give me?
" what did you have to share?
For most people it just ends up being their slides,
just their presentation which kind of sucks because they're really hard to get right.
Ya know...
it's either they're really good in the moment and they're just a [unintelligible] for your speaking or if you know that you're going to leave them behind you overload them with notes and then they become really confusing as you're presenting,
ya know....
who's someone paying attention to?
So video is the other really common option
,
and often seen as the premium experience for presentations.
You've got this great capture,
the experience...
you have you plus your slides,
like,
what could go wrong?
But the challenge there is that you kind of,
like,
lose focus do I pay attention to the person or the slides in the video.
You're not getting a great view of either one,
so if you want to download a slide or ya know,
really dive into it...
you can't or you're hunting around the video for specific points for the content you're interested in.
So it's not the best format for an active viewing experience.
So slides kind of on their own lack timing and context when you're not around to provide it and video can be hard to focus or navigate when used to record live events.
Also not to mention that video requires video setup and editing and all that.
Right,
right.
There's all this overhead associated with doing it.
So what would be better.
So hopefully something that's more contextual than slides,
more focused than video and no extra work for you...
no extra equipment or time or anything like that.
So...
we've been working on something,
name is kind of up in the air,
the basic idea is that we wanted to create something that was really easy and effective for sharing live presentations.
And the way it works is that we found a way to take your slides and the commentary from your live presentation and kind of splice them together so it gives your slides kind of their own voice and we kind of put it inside this easy-to-use player that you can access from the web.
So...
what this lets you do is that you can decide to be really active and flip through slides as you want and just listen to the ones that you really care about or just sit back and kind of listen to the presentation some more and seek like you would a video player.
Or kind of do a little of both!
So you can disconnect the audio from the slides unlike video so you can kind of skip ahead and when you find something you like,
bring the audio back to that point or jump back in time to whatever you're looking for.
So what do you need to actually make this happen for your presentations?
Not really much.
So just upload your slides to our website like I did for this presentation,
deliver your presentation from our web player which I'm doing right now and what you end up with is a link to a web-based recording that you could view on your laptop or phone or anything - it'll be fully responsive.
So it's what you're doing already.
You give your presentation,
you upload the slides to some service and then share out that link or embed it somewhere.
All we're doing is changing the order!
You upload the slides first,
present through our player and you're getting the same link to share after that.
Who do we think it'll help?
We kind of identified some early audiences that we thought it could be a good fit for.
One being teachers - to provide some more context forthe lessons they have for students and hopefully cut down on some of the office hour time and questions that people get.
Presenters to make sure that if you're sharing something after a big talk that your message is getting across,
that things aren't being lost in translation.
And for novice speakers to improve their abilities by recording test runs...
and to be able to listen to themselves and figure out the pacing.
Because one thing I see all the time,
and this is something I was guilty of when I was younger,
was not doing run-throughs beforehand and running out of time.
Ya know,
it's like "Aww I still have half the presentation left!
" when the time was up.
So how can you help?
Ya know in your case,
if you think that it would be something that you wouldn't mind trying out for an event you're doing here or a presentation here - that would be awesome.
Otherwise if you know other people it could be a good fit for...
have an in,
ya know I'm happy to show it off to more people.
Ya,
that's very cool!
So...