Create Professional Presentations in 10 Minutes with ConceptDraw MINDMAP
Product Manager of ConceptDraw PRO at CS Odessa.
It is most beneficial if you start creating presentations by building a scenario. This helps to keep you focused on your presentation idea, while mapping out all the details. ConceptDraw MINDMAP and Microsoft PowerPoint are the perfect power duo to help you create a professional presentation in just minutes.
You can use the Brainstorming mode in ConceptDraw MINDMAP to generate ideas, tasks, and questions. Use them for developing structure of your presentation. This is important for identifying your scope and vision, so you can then create each individual slide.
Once the brainstorming session is finished, it is time to develop presentation structure — you can select the slides that are most appropriate for your purpose, and organize them into mind maps following these simple rules:
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- Main Idea = Presentation Title.
- Main topics should be the first level slides.
- Subtopics are secondary level slides.
- If you need to drill down to more detail, use additional levels of sub-topics.
- Presentations should consist of 5 to10 slides.
Figure 1. Presentation Structure Shown in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.
Once your slides are mapped out, you can export your mind maps into a PowerPoint presentation with the ConceptDraw MINDMAP to MS PowerPoint feature. You can make further edits, add more details, and insert clip art while working in PowerPoint.
Summary
Public presentations are a power tool for project communications. ConceptDraw MINDMAP saves you time when preparing presentations. You can create a brief, high-impact PowerPoint presentation in 10 minutes or less using ConceptDraw MINDMAP.
| Do’s | Don’ts |
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| Try to use the same steps to create all of your presentations. | Use multi-page mind maps when developing presentation structure. |
| Develop presentation structure in mind map format. Three levels of topic are enough: main topics, subtopics and sub-sub topics. | Utilize Symbols, Clipart, etc. |
| Write slide content in ConceptDraw MINDMAP. | Export your mind maps to Microsoft PowerPoint in a map view. |
| Use default settings in the Export to PowerPoint dialog window. | Edit text directly in PowerPoint. |
| Use presentation short-cuts |
Related Resources
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Download Presentation Structure Sample used in this article (use ConceptDraw MINDMAP to open it).
Download Presentation Plan Template used in this article (use ConceptDraw MINDMAP to open it).
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