The press release for the Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint is now online! According to PrWeb statistics, it received 647 full-page reads in the first day. For more information on the campaign, and to learn how you can participate, go to www.tellnshow.com.
Archives for 2009
I have seen the worst slide in the world
I’ve see lists of bad slides, but this one takes the cake! I wouldn’t have said anything if this diagram had been called a document, but it was called a slide. I expect military documents to be complicated. But I don’t expect them to make slides of these documents. Here it is: I found this […]
Thoughts on why bad presentations don’t go away
In the Presentation Advisors blog, there’s a post called, “Audience Members are from Venus, Presenters are from Mars,” which explains some of the frustrations that presentation consultants and experts experience. Basically, if you ask the general public (audiences) what is bad about most presentations, they know. But presenters (who are obviously sometimes audience members) seem […]
Put Twitter inside PowerPoint
SAP has created a tool that displays tweets inside PowerPoint, with lots of variations and customization options. It’s a way to interact with the back channel while you’re presenting in a very cool way. For example, you can enter a search term and current tweets using that term will appear on the slide. Or show […]
New video on Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint
I created a short video explaining the Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint. Let me know what you think!