Nonprofit Management All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 3

Using Visual Aids

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using slide shows to augment your speech

Showing pictures and bullet points effectively

Knowing when — and when not — to use audio and video

Venturing into other visual aids

Many people probably still think of slide presentations as all being “PowerPoint” (from Microsoft; https://products.office.com/en-us/powerpoint). It’s sort of the Kleenex or Xerox of its field. But there are other presentation software options:

• Prezi (www.prezi.com)
• Google Slides (https://gsuite.google.com/products/slides/)
• LibreOffice Impress (www.libreoffice.org)
• Apache OpenOffice Impress (www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html)

The variety of options doesn’t change the age-old question of presentations: Do you need a visual aid? Generally, the thinking goes like this: Some people feel that just standing in front of an audience and delivering their message is not enough. They need something more to entice and captivate the audience.

Sometimes that’s true. It’s hard to describe a picture. Plus it’s worth a thousand words, right? Why not just show it? But other ...