A nice rant against powerpoint

[f4f3]

This:

http://www.greg-brooks.com/000005.html

and the link to a Wired article, say a lot about what I hate most about Powerpoint. I'm in the middle of responding to a request for a FIVE HOUR presentation, and fighting to get it made into a workshop instead. The attitude seems to be that you must use PP and you must have lots and lots and lots of slides.

Comments

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

A five hour presentation - whether as presenter or attendee -would cause me to lose the will to live.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

I forgot to make this point in my other comment. Nobody needs a presentation that lasts five hours. Why not issue it as a document for people to read before they come to a two-hour workshop?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the customer has given us 5 hours - no one says we need to use them all.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm refusing to do it - either we do it as a workshop, or at 3 o'clock we tell them we're off down the pub and invite them to join us...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Excellent :)