Here is the last installment (for now) in the Crimes Against Audiences series about terrible presentations. And here, dear friends, it is time to consider how to fix the horribleness of the business presentation. Why us? Why you? Why now? Because marketing. Because presentations are a form of marketing. Because every sucky presentation is another […]
Ten Signs Your Presentation Sucks
Last week we looked at the gap between presentation training and presentation technology training. The result of which seems to be terrible slides that undermine even the best speakers. I am laying the blame for most of our terrible, terrible slides at the feet of marketing. Now I know that once that pretty PowerPoint template […]
The Valley of The Shadow of PowerPoint
Next Sunday, PowerPoint will celebrate its 26th birthday. Given that it is nearly a full generation since the first tools came on the market that let us make our own slides, I want to know why we are getting worse at presentations, not better? Most marketers I know gave up trying to enforce any kind […]
Go Ahead. Shoot the Messenger
The problem is not PowerPoint. It’s the idiots who use it.