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My better half did a good thing. Fed up with the uncertainties of getting Power Point to work for an important presentation, she had her print shop across the road print it. She said she hated when something didn't work and you had to get someone from IT to come up and spend 20 mins unplugging and restarting stuff. 

I have to say it was a rather extravagant piece of print, for a pretty simple presentation. Extravagant in being a pretty hefty card stock, with a nice bit of spot varnish. Looked the bees knees, really, and at £10 a copy it should (the pages were barely into double figures).

I await the response about how effective that was - one positive thing over Power Point has to be that the delegates at the end of it will have a physical product to take away and remind them of the presentation.

Maybe I could start a "Kill PowerPoint" campaign.

 

Comments

 

Mick Hart said:

In the good old days of overhead projection, a printed black and white photocopy  handout seemed to be the norm, so what has changed? Is Powerpoint so good that people leave the lecture/meeting having memorised the whole document? It seems to me a sad thing that people have become too lazy to read text, and rely upon brightly coloured pictures for communication.

July 6, 2009 12:39 PM
 

The Mighty Wind said:

Presentations are often about immediate communication of ideas, power point is an excellent tool for summarising verbal communication, but I prefer using PDFs. Still a combination of printed format to take away and powerpoint/PDF @ the presentation is often the best way for short and long term impact. The very worst presentation is where rafts of words are read directly from powerpoint  presentations, these types of presenters should be shot and I have often wished to go into "john cleese" mode when I have to sit through them

July 6, 2009 6:10 PM

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