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I’m concerned that the format of these presentations can actually draw the viewer’s attention away from their content. It’s not that presenters are trying to fool anyone, they’re just trying to present their project in the best possible light.
This is from a post by Al Kaniss on the DCMilitary site. He further adds:
An extreme illustration of how format can overshadow content is found in the book Catch Me If You Can. It’s a true story about a man named Frank Abagnale (Leonard DiCaprio played him in the movie version), who appeared so convincing in his fake airline pilot’s uniform that bank tellers and hotel clerks cashed his bad checks without hesitation. They paid too much attention to format (the looks of the airline pilot who was presenting the check), and not enough to the content (whether the check was any good or not).
Read more on how to balance format and content in a presentation.
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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Opinion
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If you use Microsoft Visio, you should take a look at Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec’s Blogging on Visio web blog. I found a great article on using Color Schemes in Visio on her blog page along with performance tips and updates. Mai-lan is an amazing resource of information on Visio – after all she is the program’s Lead Program Manager!
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In the 15 minutes a CIO is allotted to address his board of directors, a lot can go right and a lot can go wrong. Very wrong. Wrong enough to kill a valuable project. Wrong enough to cut short a promising career.
Stephanie Overby shares some tips for making the most of your 15 minutes on the CIO Magazine site
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The days of endless bullet-point slides in PowerPoint are numbered—or they should be. Adding digital video to your PowerPoint presentation can help you produce a more instructive and compelling show. To do it right, though, you need to understand the issues.
Jan Ozer explains more at the PC Magazine site
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In December 2002, Steven Brier of Practical Growth mailed me to ask for some live support for the distribution of a PowerPoint media creation. The problem was delivery. Steven wanted to create CDs of this presentation that he could give away or sell. The PowerPoint Viewer available at that time was woefully inadequate to cope up with this challenge. Both Steven and I tried different approaches——using DHTML export, Flash output and even replicating the whole presentation in other multimedia programs. The bottom line was that none of them worked——at least none of them captured the original concept anywhere close.
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