Rage Against the Dying of the Light

20 September 2007

Rage Against the Dying of the Light

Death by PowerPoint

From: thecroaker, 1 month ago

Fighting death by PowerPoint... How to make a presentation and not to bore your audience to death.

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Sep 20, 2007 4:38:17 PM | Storytelling

3 Comments

I like that. Particularly as I've always thought PP gets bad press.

For me, it's not 'death by PowerPoint' it's death by lack of imagination.

Blaming PowerPoint just becomes the excuse for poor thinking - if only we didn't use PowerPoint, everything would be all right.

No! If only we all had great ideas worth communicating everything would be alright!

Posted by: Jon Howard (Living Brands) | 20 September 2007 at 06:02 PM

I've just read through about 15 of your posts - and am totally fascinated! I was in marketing back in the old dot com IPO days, and that has helped me tremendously build a food blog and pretty cool career in less than 9 months. People tend to think of "marketing strategy" and "branding" as something for big companies, but it applies to everyone.

Love this slideshow. But I still hate Powerpoint presentaitons.

Posted by: Steamy Kitchen | 12 October 2007 at 12:08 AM

Jon ... agree -- so much PowerPoint is lazy thinking. There is also disproportionate use of PowerPoint for documentation.

Steamy ... nice blog. Makes me hungry! Personal branding is a hot topic at the moment ... makes for interesting times!

Posted by: Gavin Heaton | 12 October 2007 at 01:27 AM

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