A quick and miscellaneous list of PowerPoint links

Matt Weston, 14 Sep

PowerPoint Is Evil by Edward R. Tufte (1): “Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn’t.”

Tufte’s 24 page pamphlet, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, presented here in the form of a .ppt presentation (2)

The Takahashi Method (3)
Basically king-size your text

A how-not-to PDF from Seth Godin (4) called Really Bad PowerPoint

and a how-to .ppt file from Tom Peters (5)

Jeffrey Veen’s 7 steps (6)
tell stories
show pictures
don’t apologize
start strong
end strong too
stand
and, er, pause

At YouTube, Guy Kawasaki and his 10:20:30 Presentation Rule (7)

and Russell Davies and his 5 things about PowerPoint (8)

O’Reilly Network compares Keynote (a Mac-only app) vs PowerPoint (9)

The PowerPoint FAQ list (10)


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