Comments on: There’s Something About PowerPoint

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:30:04 +0000

Not really my area of expertise…
But in my experience I can honestly say that I have got at least as much out of presentations that did not have a PowerPoint presentation.
Though I guess if you were giving a presentation to a TV advertising agency, then a whiteboard and pen would not be appropriate..

By: Allen Baird

Allen Baird — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:36 +0000

Thanks for the comment Jordan. Do you think someone speaking without ANY visual aids is best, or is some alternative to PPT necessary? Or maybe a mixture?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:55 +0000

Sorry I meant good not goog (Freudian slip maybe)

PS. If you don’t want to pay for PowerPoint software, openiffice.org does the job 99% as good for most people…

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:23:30 +0000

I read somewhere a goog while ago that Scott McNealy of Sun banned his employees from using PowerPoint… And the results were pretty good.
I can see his point.
Recently, Julie from survival solutions gave a presentation without PowerPoint and I got more out of it than her last presentation where she had a very slick PowerPoint presentation with soundtrack etc…