We recently started working on a project with many components. One of the items that was discussed at the meeting was whether we create Powerpoint presentations or know someone that does. I have been looking around for a soup-to-nuts presentation guru or the like who shares my outlook on Powerpoint.
To most people, a PP presentation is a series of slides with the bullet points of what you are discussing. Maybe it is also peppered with some noxious clip-art or worse
dazzling cheesy effects. This is a recipe for unimpressed viewers who tune out quite quickly. The slides should augment the presentation instead of sending more redundant noise at their other senses.
In the meantime, I found some very useful (and entertaining) resources which are totally straight on. Guy Kawasaki talks about the
10/20/30 rule to keep people from being bored to tears.
Really Bad Powerpoint, a paper by
Seth Godin, speaks for itself. Read it.
