Comments on: Powerpoint is evil

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 11:03:31 +0000

Good ideas (especially the sunshine and kitties), but won’t work in this case – it is for a conference where I have to prepare a presentation. I don’t think they’d be happy with a URL

I actually worked in reverse anyway – I prepared a full paper, then trimmed it into slides.

Anyway – finished now…

By: Dennis Reed

Dennis Reed — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:02:28 +0000

How about this:
Record the presentation and type up a transcript later. Make only one slide, consisting of a URL where the transcript will be available within N days, where N is some acceptable integer. Unfortunately, this is quite a bit of work.

Alternatively, use Powerpoint only for graphical things: flowcharts, tables, diagrams, pretty pictures of sunshine and kitties, keeping your outline/notes on index cards where they belong.

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:26:09 +0000

Hmmm…just doesn’t work for me. My creativity is in the words, not the slides.

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:17:15 +0000

Who’s to say it has to be distiled into a few dot points? Presentations are whatever you make them to be and it’s much more about the presenter (you) than what’s on the slides. Get creative and stop limiting yourself to templates!