In the near future, I have to give a pair of presentations on
similar topics, mostly related to online writing, mostly focused
on methods for earning money at it and building an audience. As
with any presentation that I give, I want this to be an
excellent presentation, and I’m willing to put in the time and
effort to make it so. Given that, I thought it might be
worthwhile to walk through the steps that I use to develop a
presentation. No, this isn’t going to be some kind of PowerPoint
tutorial. Instead, my focus is simply on gathering your thoughts
and turning them into something cohesive and presentable. Step
1: Brainstorming The first step is to simply get all of the
disjointed ideas you have about the presentation out of your
head. Use index cards For each discrete idea you have, put it on
its own card. I give each card a number identifier, which I
write in the lower right corner and circle. So, I might write
something like “Audience is THE key” and write 1 in the lower
right corner and circle it. If I h