Use PowerPoint or Not

“My belief is that PowerPoint doesn’t kill meetings. People kill meetings.”

—Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.

In This Chapter

  • Will visuals add anything to the presentation?
  • Why is there a myth that PowerPoint leads to boring presentations?
  • See the differences between a few bad PowerPoint presentations.
  • Why you should still use PowerPoint.
  • The default path to effective PowerPoint presentations.

Stories about presentation snafus are common, but here’s one that focuses on what an amazing tool we have in today’s computer-generated audiovisuals: In the early 1990s, a public-speaking coach was invited to present ...

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