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No matter how bad you think your presentation has been, take some comfort from the fact that at least it wasn’t as bad as these stories.
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Tagged as: Case Studies, Opinion, PowerPoint
It has happened to us all. You are sitting in a PowerPoint presentation trying – and probably failing – not to yawn as slide after slide flashes across the screen. You may blame your boredom on the speaker, but Edward Tufte has another explanation. Microsoft PowerPoint, he believes, is a badly designed medium for communicating the information people need to make informed decisions. That is why it is so dull.
Tufte reckons that the bottom 10 percent of speakers probably benefit from using PowerPoint because it at least “forces them to have points,” and that the top 10 percent are able to overcome its limitations. As for the remaining 80 percent, he suggests that these speakers print their thoughts on paper handouts instead.
Alice Rawsthorn discusses more on the International Herald Tribune site.
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Tagged as: Case Studies, Death by PowerPoint, Edward Tufte, Opinion, PowerPoint
Baltimore County prosecutor James O’C. Gentry Jr. had photographs, medical records and three weeks of trial testimony about a 9-year-old girl who was starved and beaten to death, but no idea how to pull it all together into a compelling closing argument for jurors. He found the answer from an unexpected source: his sister, who worked at the time as a consultant making PowerPoint presentations to private companies.
Read more on the Baltimore Sun site.
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Tagged as: Case Studies, Legal, PowerPoint
Each time there’s a security incident affecting air travel, it becomes harder to get electronics through airport security. Last week’s terrorism alert, for instance, raises the possibility that laptops, video projectors, and DVD players — devices big enough to conceal a couple pounds of explosives — will soon be banned from carry-on luggage. There’s further speculation that any computing device capable of serving as a timer or detonator — which includes cell phones, iPods, basically anything with a battery — may eventually be excluded as well.
So how do you carry your presentation? David DeJean discusses this on the InformationWeek site.
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Thoughts
Tagged as: BlackBerry, Laptop, PDA, PowerPoint, Projector
OutlookPoint is a product that lets you use your Outlook content such as messages, calendar, contacts, notes, tasks, etc. as a database source. Using DataPoint as an interfacing product that links PowerPoint to database sources, OutlookPoint lets you send an email that converts itself to a presentation slide in an instant! How more dynamic can you get with PowerPoint?
And in this Indezine exclusive, we have Kurt Dupont who heads PresentationPOINT, creators of OutlookPoint, DataPoint, and other amazing PowerPoint add-ins.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, Kurt Dupont, PowerPoint, PresentationPoint
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