PowerPoint revisited...

I found this site dedicated to the use of PowerPoint from a semi-military (hence the service patch idea) view point, Jim Placke's PowerPoint Humor. Well worth a visit if you are forced to present / endure countless PowerPoint presentations.

It would be interesting if in industry, we took the dissemination of information as seriously as they do in the services where lives depend on the timely movement of current, accurate information. If those of us in industry to a similar approach to the spread of information, I imagine that the ratio of business success to failure would increase simply because people were focused at a current situational picture. Unfortunately, if these comments are true (and most humor reflects a current mindset), it seems that the military machine is coming closer to the model of the corporate world.

Some of the comments from Jim's page are pretty telling

"Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it." - Peter Norvig

"I must say I started to see more bad plans with good slides approved over good plans with no slides." - Robert Walsh

"You can't speak with the U.S. military without knowing PowerPoint." - Margaret Hayes, National Defense University

These are links to Really Bad PowerPoint - Seth Godin, a really useful post and e-book with some interesting ideas on the use of presentations.

And finally, here are Microsoft's recommendations on the use of PowerPoint.

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