Social Media in Presentations

Social media is not just for sharing cat videos anymore. Businesses are taking to social media for advertising, connecting to customers and branding their company. Why shouldn’t educators and speakers use social media to help expand their presentation skills? Let us walk through some simple steps to connect social media to your presentation. First, we need to market your presentation beforehand and find out target audience. A simple way to achieve this is to create a Facebook event listing the time date, and summary of your presentation. Invite people that are going to actually be interested. No one likes to be spammed for every event under the sun. Keep it relevant and local. Secondly, we need to connect to our audience. Now during the presentation encourage the audience to ask live questions on the Facebook event page. Everyone invited will see this. So even individuals that were unable to attend can still gain information. Creating this open dialogue can enrich your presentation, but it is an extra ball to juggle. Ask a colleague to monitor the feeds during your presentation. Let them know what type of feedback they should pass on to you. Assign a second colleague to answer questions and add links to additional resources. Now to make your presentation trend and keep feeds rolling. You can achieve this by creating an additional hashtag to isolate it. This can clarify which direction information flows between the presenter and audience. Simple site software’s can create polls that can be dropped into the even or twitter conversation asking audience members to share their opinion. Now walking off the stage is no longer the end of your work. There is still time to connect to your audience, to Tweet relevant quotes from your speech so that again people can engage and share your message. To clarify points that may have accidentally gotten muddled through the course of the presentation. This is where we receive criticism and learn how to modify our presentation for future audiences. All feedback is important when looking at the larger scale. Anyone can use these simple steps to add social media to their future presentations. Let us get our message out and change the world one presentation at a time.