Dont Blame PPT

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Don’t Blame PowerPoint It’s just a vehicle

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So good I had to share!Great Slide deck by ClearPreso, putting the blame for bad presentations where it belongs.

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Don’t Blame PowerPoint It’s just a vehicle

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Don’t Blame PowerPoint It’s just a vehicle

…That is often driven poorly

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In a car crash it is nearly always the driver who is to blame

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NOT the vehicle itself

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But when it comes to bad presentations people are quick to blame PowerPoint

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Some misguided people even start political parties against it

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This is stupid.

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This is stupid. Really Stupid.

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A PowerPoint deck is not the presentation

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A PowerPoint deck is not the presentation

PowerPoint is a vehicle for your visual aids

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Your presentation is your message and your information. It takes hours of careful craft and consideration

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Your PowerPoint is your vehicle to communicate well thought out and complementary visual aids.

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PowerPoint isn’t “evil”

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PowerPoint isn’t “evil” It’s neutral

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We don’t think of other content vehicles in the same way…

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For Example…

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Outlook & Gmail are not to blame for crappy emails

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It’s your annoying Boss and his inability to

be concise

I write a damn fine email :-)

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It wasn’t the physical vinyl records that made the Beatles awesome

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It was their music, creativity & the hard work that

went with it

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George Orwell wasn’t famous because he chose to write on paper…

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It was his stories, writing style

& insights

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It isn’t your phone’s fault that your conversation sucks

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It’s just that your friend is a really boring guy!

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Blaming the vehicle/ medium in any of these cases would be

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Absurd

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It is the content & how it is delivered that is important

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NOT the vehicle used to do it

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As a presenter you need to bring your audience from

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As a presenter you need to bring your audience from

Mental Point

A

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As a presenter you need to bring your audience from

Mental Point

A Mental Point

B To

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You should use whatever vehicle works for you

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The audience don’t see…

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The audience don’t see…

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The audience don’t see…

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The audience don’t see…

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They see a

screen…

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Tell a good story and make effective, thoughtful visuals and they won’t know or care what software you used

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Concentrating on the vehicle, rather than the route can go badly…

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What’s more…

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It’s a freaking LAZY excuse

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The worst thing about the PowerPoint blame game is that it distracts from the real issue

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Laziness

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By blaming the presentation software we take focus off the real problem

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Lazy Users

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We absolve users of any real responsibility

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We absolve users of any real responsibility

Are you calling me

LAZY!

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We absolve users of any real responsibility

Are you calling me

LAZY!

Hell YEH!

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The reality is that making bad presentations is a user-choice

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Making bulletpoint filled slides is a choice

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This…

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Was a choice

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This was a choice

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Yep…

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A choice

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You can use PowerPoint as an autocue, but again that is a choice

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You can choose to ignore great books like

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Poor usage of the vehicle is a choice.

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Like with a car, you can choose to drive recklessly

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You can choose to drive to the wrong place

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And you can choose to ignore the maps…

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But that isn’t the

car s fault ’

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So…

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Let’s focus on what really matters

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Let’s focus on what really matters the Presentation

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And send the vehicle blame game to the scrapheap

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If you agree

then why

not spread

the word

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