Life After PowerPoint

Life after PowerPoint

Cleve Callison, The Callison GroupGCASTD Conference: Ignite your Mojo!October 8, 2010

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Life after PowerPoint • GCASTD Conference • October 8, 2010

PowerPoint fatigue: Afghanistan


PowerPoint fatigue: Afghanistan

“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war.”

--Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan

“PowerPoint makes us stupid.”--Marine Gen. James N. Mattis

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.htm

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Death by PowerPoint: Columbia


Death by PowerPoint: Columbia

“...6 different levels of hierarchy are used to display, classify and arrange 11 phrases.”

“... a conclusion presented as a headline: ‘Test Data Indicates Conservatism for Tile Penetration.’ ... Executives, at least those who don't want to get fooled, had better read far beyond the title.”

“PP demands the shorthand of acronyms, phrase fragments, and clipped jargon in order to get at least some information into the tight format.”

--Edward Tufte, author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-m

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Using graphics


Using graphics: Infographics Fix


Using graphics: Infographics Fix

http://www.parseerror.com/vis/


Using graphics: Southern identity


Using graphics: Southern identity

http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/release.htm


Using graphics: Napoleon’s march

“may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn.”

--Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters


Presentation Zen: Garr Reynolds


Presentation Zen: Garr Reynolds

http://www.presentationzen.com/


TED

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/

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Prezi.com

http://prezi.com/aww2hjfyil0u/m

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Pecha Kucha

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/


ReThinking presentations: Benjamin McCall

ReThink HR

http://rethinkhr.org/


Goodbye.


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