Don't Blame PowerPoint: It's just a vehicle

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1. Don’t Blame PowerPoint It’s just a vehicle
2. Don’t Blame PowerPoint It’s just a vehicle …That is often driven poorly
3. In a car crash it is nearly always the driver who is to blame
4. NOT the vehicle itself
5. But when it comes to bad presentations people are quick to blame PowerPoint
6. Some misguided people even start political parties against it
7. This is stupid.
8. This is stupid. Really Stupid.
9. A PowerPoint deck is not the presentation
10. A PowerPoint deck is not the presentation PowerPoint is a vehicle for your visual aids
11. Your presentation is your message and your information. It takes hours of careful craft and consideration
12. Your PowerPoint is your vehicle to communicate well thought out and complementary visual aids.
13. PowerPoint isn’t “evil”
14. PowerPoint isn’t “evil” It’s neutral
15. We don’t think of other content vehicles in the same way…
16. For Example…
17. Outlook & Gmail are not to blame for crappy emails
18. It’s your annoying Boss and his inability to be concise I write a damn fine email :-)
19. It wasn’t the physical vinyl records that made the Beatles awesome
20. It was their music, creativity & the hard work that went with it
21. George Orwell wasn’t famous because he chose to write on paper…
22. It was his stories, writing style & insights
23. It isn’t your phone’s fault that your conversation sucks
24. It’s just that your friend is a really boring guy!
25. Blaming the vehicle/ medium in any of these cases would be
26. Absurd
27. It is the content & how it is delivered that is important
28. NOT the vehicle used to do it
29. As a presenter you need to bring your audience from
30. As a presenter you need to bring your audience from Mental Point A
31. As a presenter you need to bring your audience from Mental Point A Mental Point B To
32. You should use whatever vehicle works for you
33. The audience don’t see…
34. The audience don’t see…
35. The audience don’t see…
36. The audience don’t see…
37. They see a screen…
38. Tell a good story and make effective, thoughtful visuals and they won’t know or care what software you used
39. Concentrating on the vehicle, rather than the route can go badly…
40. What’s more…
41. It’s a freaking LAZY excuse
42. The worst thing about the PowerPoint blame game is that it distracts from the real issue
43. Laziness
44. By blaming the presentation software we take focus off the real problem
45. Lazy Users
46. We absolve users of any real responsibility
47. We absolve users of any real responsibility Are you calling me LAZY!
48. We absolve users of any real responsibility Are you calling me LAZY! Hell YEH!
49. The reality is that making bad presentations is a user-choice
50. Making bulletpoint filled slides is a choice
51. This…
53. Was a choice
55. This was a choice
57. Yep…
58. A choice
59. You can use PowerPoint as an autocue, but again that is a choice
60. You can choose to ignore great books like
61. Poor usage of the vehicle is a choice.
62. Like with a car, you can choose to drive recklessly
63. You can choose to drive to the wrong place
64. And you can choose to ignore the maps…
65. But that isn’t the car s fault ’
66. So…
67. Let’s focus on what really matters
68. Let’s focus on what really matters the Presentation
69. And send the vehicle blame game to the scrapheap
70. If you agree then why not spread the word
71. Check out my site @ www.clearpreso.com Or click here to send me a tweet! @clearpreso