Let Your Google Slides Shine! Present Like a Pro!

The success of your presentation hinges not just on what is in the presentation but also on your confidence in handling the tech behind your slides. I see so many beautifully crafted Google Slides that are presented in a way that detract from the overall effect of the presentation. If it takes a while to dial in the tech, your audience will lose interest.

How you want to present your Google Slides depends somewhat on the circumstances of how you will be presenting and what you will be presenting:

💎 Unless you need to jump between windows, you will likely use the Present option in your Google Slides. It shows a full-screen view and allows the audience to fully focus on your slides.

💎 If you need to jump between tabs in your browser or jump between windows, you can consider exiting the full screen (lower left). Try it! It will become one of your favorite features!

💎 Extra KloudGems:

• Hide your Bookmarks bar! 

3 dots > Bookmarks > uncheck Show Bookmarks bar.

• Do not present from the edit view! It may not render your slides big enough, may have editing marking, and does not show your slides in their full glory.

• Consider whether you will be presenting in person or through a video conference. Knowing your tools can help you predict the best way to present.

• If you are going to play a video, make sure that the sound is getting picked up in Zoom and that in Google Meet you choose to present A tab.

• If you have the opportunity to only present A window or you have a secondary screen, you can also make sure to utilize the Presenter view tools in Google Slides:

• Timer

• Speaker notes

• Q&A functionality

• Practice, practice, practice!

❓ Which presentation format do you use when presenting Google Slides?

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Insights From Your Website's Visitors

Continuing on the website track… Whether you are into collecting and looking at data or not, you will find it useful to implement analytics on your website. Disclaimer: this is not going to be your in-depth Google Analytics know-everything training. The intent of this post is to raise awareness to the few pieces of data that you definitely want to look at with regards to your website (or blog) to understand whether or not it is resonating with your visitors. This is just to get your feet wet; later you can choose to explore more of the data and become an Analytics guru, or just find the nuggets that make the biggest difference for your business.

💎 Your website can be internal to your company or external for the world

• Whether you built a Google Site for external use or for internal company consumption (project or team), data will help you make sure it stays useful for the visitors who are looking at it.

• Ensure that your website and its visitors are clear and okay with the tracking on your website. Google deploys some notices, but you may want to get legal advice to understand what works for your use case.

💎 How can you get data about your Google Sites?

1. First, you will need to create a Google Analytics account. Google Analytics is not part of Google Workspace, but it is a Google tool that is free and connects seamlessly with single sign-on.

2. Then you will need to create a tracking ID.

3. When you have that, you will need to paste it into the Settings of your Google Site.

💎 Time to find out what pages resonate with visitors!

• Give Analytics some time to run so there will be enough visits to have meaningful data.

• In Google Analytics, even the Home section is going to show you some interesting insights. 

• At the very minimum, you will want to see which pages of your website your visitors find useful.

Which are the pages that are visited the most?

Which are the pages that no one ever looks at?

Knowing this overtime will help you structure and restructure your website's pages and content to ensure that people can get to the relevant information easily.

❓ Did you find the top most visited pages on your site? Did you expect that or was it a surprise?

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More Website Flavors

Continuing form last week… As you build your website and decide on the layout, here are a few things to consider:

💎 Don't overcomplicate

• The navigation should have items that your audience will be looking for. 

• The number and nature of pages and navigation menu items depend on what you want on your site, but generally speaking, don't have more than 6 top-level navigation items if you can help it. 

These are typically:

• Home

• Services or Products

• Freebies or Resources

• Contact

• About

• Newsletter signup (optional -- if you have a newsletter)

• Consider whether all of the pages need to be reachable from the navigation, or can you link to some of them from other pages.

💎 Add pictures -- the correct way

• Have enough pictures to make each page interesting. At least 1 picture per page (they don't need to be print-quality high resolution: they should be optimized to the web, so they load fast).

• Include at least one picture of you so your audience can connect with you, perhaps on the About page or the Home page -- or both.

• Make sure you own the copyright to all the pictures or make sure they are free. Don't assume that just because you found them on the web that they are free.

• Write an alt text (alternate text description) for each picture to help with accessibility (screen readers) -- and also generally with search engines (SEO).

💎 The overall look and feel

• It's not a bad thing if the colors in your images echo your website's color scheme or complement it; that will lend your website a put-together, cohesive look.

❓ What colors did you decide on for your website?

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