Book: Beyond Bullet Points
posted Thursday, 17 July 2008
The corporate world is filled with endless PowerPoint presentations. Many of these are just templated slide after slide of bullet points, which can be boring. A recent book I read, Beyond Bullet Points, by Cliff Atkinson, explained an alternative technique to make PowerPoint more interesting. His idea (as best I understand it) is to mimic what other successful media do (like Hollywood) by telling a story with pictures instead of using bullet points. The end result is that it emphasizes the speaker's own words rather than endless PowerPoint text. I had the opportunity to attend the USNAF back in 2006, and several presentations used this technique, and it was indeed more lively. tags: books
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