Presenting Designs Online
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- RustyStew
My client is in another state and I am needing to present designs. I was wondering what methods people here use to do such things. Flying out is unreasonable in this case. I can send a PDF and talk them through it on the phone, but it would be nice if I could lead/control the presentation more than that.
What I think exists:
An online service that Is a bit like a voice/video chat only instead of looking at someones goofy face on screen, I am sharing a PDF or slideshow of some sort. Ideally it has tools integrated that will allow me and the client to point certain things out or otherwise indicate things on the slides while discussing them.
- vaxorcist0
I once did something like this, my goal was to AVOID showing the end product before showing the steps to get there, so I did the following:
1. save each page as it's own PDF, files named by idea, not numbers (non-guessable that way)
2. FTP upload to a directory on my server, then password protect the directory using cpanel and turn OFF directory listing so client couldn't see file list.
3. Talk on Phone while client and I have a google chat window running, as I introduce a page or concept, I copy-paste the URL of that particular PDF page into the google chat window and ask client to click on it.
so we had phone + google chat + PDF + FTP with some tweeking of webhosts's Cpanel.... low-tech, but it worked well, as it controlled the flow, which was all-important in this case, as some clients would jump the gun and ask questions about the last page before even looking at the first pages.... and this approach seemed almost as good as being in person, able to control the flow... and justifications for aesthetic decisions, a HUGE issue for me to make sure client knows it's not "just a matter of your taste vs mine"
- e-wo0
For situations where meeting in realtime doesn't work, I use:
1. Screenflow (http://www.telestream.net/scree... to capture video of myself walking through the deliverables, process, message, etc,
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2. Cloudapp (http://getcloudapp.com/) to upload the video and related files easily.
- RustyStew0
Thanks guys, that should give me enough to think about/play with.