Death By Powerpoint

I’ve started a taskforce.
A taskforce of one, but still a taskforce. Our (my) mission will be to attend presentations and heckle the bad ones. This was inspired by a fairly awful presentation I attended recently. It had:
  • Too many slides
  • Too much information per slide
  • All the spoken information written in full
  • So much content it resulted in information overload, and went over its time
In short, it was textbook ‘death by Powerpoint’, a casebook study on how not to do it.
I thought this stuff was elementary, and that everyone knew what to avoid. But now I feel differently; now I realise that if we’re going to have presentations that don’t bore, confuse and frustrate everyone, there needs to be something of a revolution. Are you with me?
If you’re not, then:
  1. Please don’t waste your audience’s time in the ways above; instead show some consideration and thought in what you’ve prepared.
  2. Watch out for the taskforce.
(Final note on images: Using an image like the one at the top and talking about something like ‘fitting together’ is tedious. Don’t  do it.)

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