Army Colonel Fired for Speaking Out Against PowerPoint

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Army Colonel Fired for Speaking Out Against PowerPoint

All industries are sick of ineffective and boring presentations. Some are so frustrated by the tool, they’re willing to speak up and risk their job. Check out the article in the CNN.com opinion section on what we can do to end PowerPoint fatigue.

10.15.2010 / Nancy Duarte

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http://advanceyourslides.com Nick Smith

Great article. A colleague found it earlier today and sent it to me. Very, very good analysis of the state of presentations and the need to make things better.

Thanks for all the awesomeness you keep sending out. Much appreciated.
Chris Santos

Read the article. Yikes! To be fired because you criticized PowerPoint. Well, I guess we know where this war is headed! I actually used the above slide to demonstrate information overload while teaching about presentation design and delivery to my 8th graders – using your very own Slideology and Garr Reynolds’s Presentation Zen. My kids love it. They now call other students’s presentations “robotic.” : ) . Haven’t picked up Resonate yet…but will soon!
http://ernestozgutierrez.wordpress.com Ernesto Z. Gutierrez

The infamous “spaghetti presentation” makes it’s way back into our minds. It is scary how many presentations I sit through now that necrosis has taken hold of… completely lifeless! Neither the other participants watching or the actual presenter is paying any attention to the screen. As you said in slideology , people use it mainly as a prompter and it is always entertaining watching someone start their presentation facing the audience with confidence but as time ticks away the person slowly starts shifting and eventually has turned their backs.

Thanks Nancy and Duarte for the resources!
http://www.jiegoublog.cn/ xuke

Aw, this was a really quality post. In theory I’d like to write like this too -
Bruce Couch

awesome article Nancy. Thanks.
http://www.offsitesecretary.com Melissa Rahko

What an informative article! It is information I plan on using when crafting my presentations. I hope to make my narratives compelling and convincing
http://www.tjwalker.com TJ Walker

PowerPoint is like TV, there’s lot’s of good and bad. following the TV analogy, it’s as if everyone decided the only TV they could emulate and try to use is the stuff on Cable Access on channel 103–wrong role model!
http://jefmenguin.com Jef Menguin

Thank you for sharing. I hope to buy your book this week.

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Army Colonel Fired for Speaking Out Against PowerPoint

10.15.2010 / Nancy Duarte

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