Animated Reenactment [of the Tiger Woods Crash] TJ Walker discusses this trend and the future implications.
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PowerPoint has increasingly gained a bad reputation as a speaker tool. However, I believe this is unjust. It's sort of like saying all television is awful, only it's not awful, it's just that your set has been upside down in your living room for the past 10 years. The fact that you didn't use your TV effectively doesn't mean that all TV is lousy.
PowerPoint slides can be quite effective when used properly, as an enhancement to a speaker's presentation. The key word here is "enhancement." There is actually no such thing as a "PowerPoint Presentation." There are people who give presentations and use PowerPoint slides to make a better and more memorable impression on audiences (this is an extremely rare phenomenon). And then there are people who use PowerPoint slides to make a bad or unmemorable impression on their audiences (is this you?).
If you want to become effective at using PowerPoint in your presentations, the first thing you have to do throw out every thing you think you know about it. This will likely mean upsetting the people in your corporate communications department who are used to whipping up a quick PowerPoint presentation for you that consists of taking your speech, breaking it down to 999 bullet points, and then sticking it on slides with your corporate logo and fine print legal disclaimers.
For many people, the current PowerPoint slide system "works" in the sense that they get paid to create or deliver them, no one complains, and everything sort of fits in with what everyone else does. However, the current PowerPoint slide system does not "work" in the sense that any actual ideas were communicated to the audience.
Why didn't communication occur?
Because the slides were so complex, detailed, abstract, data-filled, and word-packed that your audience fell asleep.
~ TJ Walker
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