If you’ll forgive me for a moment, I thought I’d indulge in broadcasting what I consider to be a fairly cool thing:
Soldier’s Diary: The Importance of PowerPoint Slides in Iraq
To those of you who express scorn over the presentation tool we know as Powerpoint, it should recognized that there is really a massive following for Powerpoint – and I’m not just talking about folks that use it on a day-to-day basis: I’m talking about actual fandom – folks that really, really, really like the tool.
Here’s an excerpt of something I wrote about the "Love of Powerpoint".
POWERPOINT IN COURT
There’s an article today about Microsoft Powerpoint in the LA Times. Apparently, the guy won a $13M law suit again Merck using an extremely compelling 235 slide Powerpoint deck that the jury didn’t find boring at all. Wow.
LA Times: Making a (Power)Point of Not Being Tiresome
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-powerpoint19apr19,1,7569014.story?coll=la-headlines-business
There’s an article today about Microsoft Powerpoint in the LA Times. Apparently, the guy won a $13M law suit again Merck using an extremely compelling 235 slide Powerpoint deck that the jury didn’t find boring at all. Wow.
LA Times: Making a (Power)Point of Not Being Tiresome
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-powerpoint19apr19,1,7569014.story?coll=la-headlines-business
POWERPOINT BOOK
Cliff Atkinson, the focus of the article, wrote a book on Powerpoint published this past February 2006 by Microsoft Press:
MS Press: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/7125.asp
Cliff Atkinson, the focus of the article, wrote a book on Powerpoint published this past February 2006 by Microsoft Press:
MS Press: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/7125.asp
POWERPOINT CONFERENCE
Powerpoint Live! is a conference given every year in San Diego. This year it’s on Sept 17th-20th, 2006 and it’s ALL about presentations. It’s amazing that a product like Powerpoint could engender a FOUR DAY conference about presentation techniques, styles, and other Powerpoint stuff… with a full blown expo and labs.
https://www.altman.com/powerpoint/pptlive/
Powerpoint Live! is a conference given every year in San Diego. This year it’s on Sept 17th-20th, 2006 and it’s ALL about presentations. It’s amazing that a product like Powerpoint could engender a FOUR DAY conference about presentation techniques, styles, and other Powerpoint stuff… with a full blown expo and labs.
https://www.altman.com/powerpoint/pptlive/
POWERPOINT COMEDY
Incidentally, for those of you who haven’t seen his act, Don McMillan, author of "Technically Funny" and reknown as the "Powerpoint Comedian" for using Powerpoint throughout his show. He puts on a great show if you can catch him at the Laugh Factory or the Improv. He was the Star Search comedian of the year and was a former PhD at VLSI logic where he designed a dozen or so chips in use today. I’ve seen him several times most recently in Downtown San Jose and he brought the house down – especially with his corporate humor about the differences between "Sales folk, Marketing folk, and Engineers".
http://www.donmcmillan.com/
Incidentally, for those of you who haven’t seen his act, Don McMillan, author of "Technically Funny" and reknown as the "Powerpoint Comedian" for using Powerpoint throughout his show. He puts on a great show if you can catch him at the Laugh Factory or the Improv. He was the Star Search comedian of the year and was a former PhD at VLSI logic where he designed a dozen or so chips in use today. I’ve seen him several times most recently in Downtown San Jose and he brought the house down – especially with his corporate humor about the differences between "Sales folk, Marketing folk, and Engineers".
http://www.donmcmillan.com/
(…the irony is that he’s done gigs at Motorola, HP, Cisco, Dell, Sony, Veritas, (here’s some clips he did at Sun & IBM – http://www.donmcmillan.com/video_demos.htm) Apple, Oracle, Toshiba, Intel, Symantec, Gateway, Intuit, TIBCO, Ariba, Unisys, SGI, Lucent, Philips, Hitachi, Adaptec, Seagate, Novell…but never at Microsoft.)
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