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Share I’ve been writing this week on demos and presentations. Monday I wrote about Joel Spolsky’s wonderful demo of Fog Creek’s new products. Joel did one other thing at his presentation that I found very interesting. He didn’t introduce himself (nor was he introduced by anyone else). Pretty much everyone in the [...] Share I’m writing this week about presentations and demos. I wrote Monday about Joel Spolsky demoing his product “in passing,” without overtly appearing to demo it. It was a terrific idea, brilliantly carried off. However, few of us demo products whose use can be woven into the presentation itself. (Think of demoing PowerPoint itself for the [...] Share I’ll write this week about demos and presentations, based on a terrific software demo I saw Thursday. It was delivered by Joel Spolsky, the brains behind Fog Creek Software and a brilliant thinker about various computer issues. To set the scene, he and his team were doing a roadshow tour of Fog Creek’s new releases, the unfortunately [...] Share This article from Harvard Business Review attacking PowerPoint is one of the least sensible ones I’ve seen. Somehow, I assume that folks at HBR have some real-world and not just B-school “B” experience (as in the “B” in HBR). Indeed, David Silverman has written some very good posts in the past, so this one just [...] Share Yesterday, I shared a slide from a New York Times article about the use and misuse of presentation software. I railed about the misuse of PowerPoint, offering four real issues instead of the shibboleth put forth in the Times article: Bad presentation design is making us stupid. Share There’s a lot of brouhaha today stemming from a report in the New York Times about PowerPoint negatively affecting the US military apparatus. Super-smart graphics maven Nancy Duarte, for example, chimes in here. A lot of discussion centers on the complex chart topping the NY Times article. Ex-McKinsey consultant and PowerPoint guru explains (and partly defends) [...] |
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