Which powerpoint is better?

Oh lord. I go to sleep hoping that some combination of technology and ingenuity will result in a presentation tool that outstrips powerpoint.

But that would likely mean a thorough and fundamental failure of the MS Office franchise.

But one can hope.

I present to you three powerpoints. All delivered recently. One is twelve pages long. Another is 162 pages long. And this is one is called “Death by Powerpoint,” and is 61 pages long.

I argue that the shortest presentation is the worst - and probably would take the longest to present as well.

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Comments (2) left to “Which powerpoint is better?”

  1. Sarah wrote:

    I completely agree.

    The shorthand versions of trying to explain how not to write a boring, verbose disaster of a PowerPoint result in some of the worst ones.

    You can’t rely on formulas, you just have to tell a story.

    A good rule for most things, no?

    Posted on 16-Apr-08 at 4:43 pm | Permalink

  2. Peter wrote:

    hey cool now I don’t have to read Neumeier’s book!

    Love that Death by Powerpoint thingy.

    BTW, here is a *real* example of death by Powerpoint - how bad presentations contributed to the Columbia shuttle disaster: http://is.gd/6Go

    Posted on 16-Apr-08 at 5:25 pm | Permalink

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