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Cliff Atkinson published a book last year called Beyond Bullet Points about how to combat PowerPoint fatigue: the deadening sameness of Microsoft Corp.’s commonly used presentation software.
The book caught the eye of W. Mark Lanier, a Houston-based trial lawyer. What happened next sounds like an episode of a ripped-from-the-headlines TV crime drama. Lanier, who was suing Merck & Co. on behalf of a man who died while taking the painkiller Vioxx, hired Atkinson as a consultant to help with his opening argument. The resulting 253-slide presentation was so mold-breaking — so the opposite of boring — that it was dubbed “CSI: PowerPoint.”
Read more on the Los Angeles Times site.
You can also read an earlier interview with Cliff Atkinson on the Indezine.com site.
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