6 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL PRESENTATIONS - TECHNOLOGY - 2025

The digital or electronic presentations have their advantages and disadvantages, but, today, one of the elaborations most commonly used in conferences, meetings or academic exhibitions for the sample project.

Electronic presentations allow the insertion of text, photographs, tables and even videos or sound clips, which facilitates the emission of information through visual, auditory and even kinesthetic resources.

Additionally, the use of pre-designed slides or templates simplifies the demonstration of information to the audience. It is always easier to present a dense content through diagrams or summary tables, which help to synthesize the fundamental precepts of the subject at hand.

However, electronic presentations are not exempt from presenting some weaknesses from the point of view of security in the protection of information and originality in the content of the presentations.

Advantages and disadvantages of making electronic presentations today

Advantage

1- Flexibility in design

The tools used for the development of electronic presentations usually offer templates with the essential skeleton according to the type of slide: presentation, beginning of a section, comparison sheets, content slides, etc.

The pre-loaded templates have a variety of designs (colors, shapes, distribution) that are attractive enough to appeal to all tastes.

Electronic design also supports quick and easy content editing, as information, images, or graphics can be added or removed from a slide with just one click.

It is also extremely easy to delete slides, or reorder them according to the presenter's taste.

2- Use of multimedia resources

Electronic presentations allow the embedding of audiovisual resources such as audio or video clips, as a dynamic part of the slides.

Likewise, these types of tools also usually include transition functions between the slides, and there is even the possibility of adding special animations for each text or image that is part of the presentation.

3- They can be screened in front of large audiences

Given the practicality of the final presentation, this type of resource can be projected in front of a massive audience, without the speaker losing eye contact with the audience.

In addition, the easy transition between slides, facilitates the development of the presentations remarkably.

Disadvantages

4- Dependence on technological resources

There is a minimum of technological requirements to successfully reproduce these types of presentations. At least one computer, a projector, a reflection screen and a nearby electrical point to power the equipment to be used.

However, once the initial investment in the necessary software and hardware is made, the cost of making electronic presentations is practically nil.

5- Danger of information loss

The electronic file can be damaged or erased from the computer, as a result of a computer virus, or by an inadvertent mistake of the person handling the device.

That is why it is extremely important to save backup versions of the digital presentation, to avoid these types of contingencies.

6- Risk of occurrence of technical damage

There is always a risk of electrical or sound failure, the occurrence of errors in the computer terminals, or a reproduction problem in the presentation due to incompatibility between the program installed on the computer and the document version.

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