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- atomica0
I understand where you're coming from, but if you read enough you would have picked up his presentation tips. This is what he said works best at the seminar:
1. Use hand outs because: their tangible, you can fit way more info on a 11x17 bifold then on a 100 power point slides (he considers this high resolution versus low resolution 640x480 versus a 11x17 front and back at 300dpi+). It gives the person something to take home, something to think about, and something to doodle on if thats their case, regardless its there and its handy (and in the case of 50+ slides no one's going to remember the first handful anyhow, if its on paper its always there). Oh and add 8.5x11 insert pages if you have to, it can be amazingly worthwhile to the user. He handed out a nice one, that couldn't have taken more than a couple hours to make and was heavily informative, had some room for me to take notes, etc.
2. use conversation, it works better than six lines of six word sentences that work as pitches.
3. Use power point to display only images that reinforce your presentation - not your presentation facts themselves. (i think this is a great idea personally)
4. Use humor if you have to, it helps relate to people - clip art and chartoons do not.
5. Be a teacher, not a sales person. Power point gets you into the sales pitch attitude automatically - when your giving facts ..... that an awful thing. No ones going to trust it or put effort into it.
That was the main jist of it... I'm not saying change your billion dollar corporation completely, get the cognitive thinking on power point booklet, or present a similar idea to the above and with the least bit of intelligence they'll at least see some of that as being intelligent. NASA was is a billion dollar corporation and as part of power point was some of the fault of the Columbia crash last year and tufte proved that and they included it as a key part of the reports while figuring out what went wrong.