Wow - great advice. Jason's emails have been awesome so far.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't even understand the purpose of using PowerPoint. To me it just screams: "I'm a suit". If you have any semblance of a working product, why aren't you spending your time showing it off? Also, when I'm talking I want the audience focused on what I'm saying not the slide animations and colors.
I guess I could understand if you don't have any sort of working product or if you just have a few _concisely_ worded slides to reinforce certain points. However, the vast majority of presentations I've seen aren't like that at all.
I think of the ~1000 or so Powerpoint presentations I've been exposed to, only a handful have added significant value to what the speaker is saying (the Nike VP of marketing had the best one I've ever seen - surprise).
Maybe it's just me, but I don't even understand the purpose of using PowerPoint. To me it just screams: "I'm a suit". If you have any semblance of a working product, why aren't you spending your time showing it off? Also, when I'm talking I want the audience focused on what I'm saying not the slide animations and colors.
I guess I could understand if you don't have any sort of working product or if you just have a few _concisely_ worded slides to reinforce certain points. However, the vast majority of presentations I've seen aren't like that at all.
I think of the ~1000 or so Powerpoint presentations I've been exposed to, only a handful have added significant value to what the speaker is saying (the Nike VP of marketing had the best one I've ever seen - surprise).