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DBPP and Hypnotized Chickens
Power Point presentations have been identified as the next enemy the Pentagon must conquer. The folks at my old workplace were generally not competent enough to actually sew one together. At my new workplace, I'm either too far down the food chain to see one, or everyone's too busy to really mess with them. At any rate, the ones I have seen were mercifully restricted to just one or two slides.
Other folks, with other jobs, likely have a different experience. They'll probably find the article even funnier than I did.
As one who regularly creates, uses, and distributes PP presentations, I feel their pain. The key problem I see is that people use it as a crutch. Some key rules that should be followed:
-6 bullets per page
-6 words per bullet MAX - goal is to have less
-Never EVER put up something that you're going to read verbatim
-There are times when a diagram works better. Know when that time is.
-Use it as a tool for people to take notes on.
That alone would help everyone...
Posted by: Ron ap Rhys on April 27, 2010 02:54 PM