“Death by PowerPoint” is alive and healthy in corporate meetings around the world. The bad news is that we will have to sit through insufferably long and boring presentations for a long, long time.
IT departments today have many well-defined responsibilities. But what about helping business users with not just the technical side but also the creative elements of their PowerPoint decks and ...
Five tips from a pro for getting your message across in a way that’s clear, comprehensible—and maybe even enjoyable. I never expected to make a career out of building executive presentations. When I ...
Death by PowerPoint is a term used to describe a shoddy presentation that bores people to sleep. It’s brought about by text-heavy slides, bothersome graphics, and a presenter who’s just reading data ...
Prezi, which sells a presentation app that competes with Microsoft PowerPoint, is angling for more business customers. Although it has managed to build a following 75 million individual registered ...
The New York Times has an article called We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint which reports on the extensive use of Microsoft’s PowerPoint in the military and how some are complaining that (in ...
In modern business, if there’s a presentation, there’s a PowerPoint with it. (Or, one of the programs that resemble it.) It’s almost as if we’ve forgotten how to present without one. Unfortunately, ...
We’ve all been there at one time or another. It’s Friday afternoon after a big lunch. As the lights dim and the laptop begins to purr, we are suddenly lulled into a semi-comatose state. The presenter ...
Ever been stuck in an interminable meeting in which a speaker slogged through 101 frustrating PowerPoint slides? Ever finish sitting through a presentation and wonder, well, what the point was? It ...