A picture still paints a thousand words, even if the medium and tools we use to create them are changing at lightning fast speed. Maybe you are relying on AI generated images, funny memes, or even AI generated slides. (See MS Designer in PowerPoint).
There’s a dizzying variety of tools at your fingertips. Anyone is a graphic designer… until they are not. That is until the marketing director and brand police see the slides that anyone created.
Keeping control of your company’s brand and message gets harder everyday. With today’s tools, it’s easier to create a new slide, regardless of the quality, than it is to go searching for the one your sales enablement content manager made and posted somewhere.
Put your slides in PowerPoint – in everyone’s PowerPoint. When they are thinking about presentations, working on them. That’s where they need to be. Right where they are working.
Here’s how to set up a slide library using SharePoint and PowerPoint.
Start in SharePoint.
1.Dedicate a Documents library for your presentation library
2. Create a folder for each category that your team uses. You might even already something like this on SharePoint. Here are some examples of you could structure your library. Think of each category as chapter in your company story and a folder in SharePoint:
3. Upload corresponding files to each folder. Start with PowerPoint presentations. Then add PDFs, Word, Excel, images and videos. Essentially, all the file types that regular sales and marketing folks use everyday.
Learn how building a structured slide library can save you time and money, and discover how to do it by reading Presentation Management: The New Strategy for Enterprise Content
Now that you have the Files organized in SharePoint, get them in PowerPoint. Connect this SharePoint library to PowerPoint via Shufflrr for O365 Add-in. See how it work
Now anyone with permissions, can get the “right” slide, text and file right inside PowerPoint. They stay focused on their subject, while in PowerPoint. Work in PowerPoint.
