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Dec 11, 2007View in Crawl 4
The points are very valid. I've seen too many presentations with long long descriptions where the presenter simply reads off the slide. It drives me crazy every time. Keep it simple, short and concise!
My company (consulting firm) completely abuses powerpoint presentation. Most of the big consulting firms do, but differently and you can usually tell who submitted the deck, by the different kinds of ugliness. They treat MS PP like a word document. So instead of memorizing what points you want to get across, they write them all down and the result is usually horribly complicated, dense slides. When I was in graduate school updating my research committee, if I had shown them slides like this, I would have been laughed out of the room.
illustrating program??i think you have it backwards: pp is a slide-show program, that /tries/ to have illustration tools, oh and it's easy to integrate those pie charts and line graphs from excel.
not the design world, the name PowerPoint is forbidden where I work and go to school, you just don't even think about it... not that you'd ever want to.It is easier (and looks better) to just whip up a couple page PDF... grab some stock photography (if any) and KISS.
"One thing that I have learned is however that a great presentation usually involves a good communication skills and a kick ass PowerPoint." Good grief, this fool can't even put together a coherent sentence in his opening paragraph. This is how that sentence should have been written:"However, one thing that I have learned is a great presentation usually involves good communication skills and a kick ass PowerPoint [slide]."Here's another one: "but I did not really touch on creating how you should create your PowerPoint presentation." Should be: "but I did not really touch on how you should create your PowerPoint presentation." Say it with me now, CLEAR, CONCISE AND COHERENT!BURIED!
guyroDec 12, 2007
The points are very valid. I've seen too many presentations with long long descriptions where the presenter simply reads off the slide. It drives me crazy every time. Keep it simple, short and concise!
Closed AccountDec 12, 2007
My company (consulting firm) completely abuses powerpoint presentation. Most of the big consulting firms do, but differently and you can usually tell who submitted the deck, by the different kinds of ugliness. They treat MS PP like a word document. So instead of memorizing what points you want to get across, they write them all down and the result is usually horribly complicated, dense slides. When I was in graduate school updating my research committee, if I had shown them slides like this, I would have been laughed out of the room.
pyro789xDec 12, 2007
dugg for saying the exact same thing I was about to.
zip000Dec 12, 2007
Hmm, I'm in the middle of making a PowerPoint presentation right now.
tybrisDec 12, 2007
You can screw up with LaTeX just as badly.
zammitDec 12, 2007
illustrating program??i think you have it backwards: pp is a slide-show program, that /tries/ to have illustration tools, oh and it's easy to integrate those pie charts and line graphs from excel.
zammitDec 12, 2007
not the design world, the name PowerPoint is forbidden where I work and go to school, you just don't even think about it... not that you'd ever want to.It is easier (and looks better) to just whip up a couple page PDF... grab some stock photography (if any) and KISS.
encognitoDec 13, 2007
"One thing that I have learned is however that a great presentation usually involves a good communication skills and a kick ass PowerPoint." Good grief, this fool can't even put together a coherent sentence in his opening paragraph. This is how that sentence should have been written:"However, one thing that I have learned is a great presentation usually involves good communication skills and a kick ass PowerPoint [slide]."Here's another one: "but I did not really touch on creating how you should create your PowerPoint presentation." Should be: "but I did not really touch on how you should create your PowerPoint presentation." Say it with me now, CLEAR, CONCISE AND COHERENT!BURIED!