Nickname: honeysha

Review: hey....thanks a lot for the information provided on this page.... i hope my final year presentation will be better than i expected after go through this page....thanks again

Date reviewed: Feb 6, 2009 6:56 PM

Nickname: hatfield

Review: hey is there away that you can only time one slide at a time, and still have it play well. like you add a slide but you wouldnt have to retime the whole thing

Date reviewed: Nov 6, 2007 4:33 PM

Nickname: AJ

Review: I'm one of those people whose slides have a title and nothing else but bullet points. This article has made me allergic to bullet points. My next presentation will have none of them... I hope!

Date reviewed: Feb 15, 2007 8:35 AM

Nickname: Tim

Review: I take your point in relation to non-technical presentations. But if you are dealing with a technical topic you are faced with the law of requisite variety. For example, if you are describing how to remove an engine block from a car and there are 60 connections to be undone surely you need 60 slides with photos.

Date reviewed: Aug 30, 2006 1:26 AM

Nickname: Acerbic Man

Review: I just read your article on presentations and found it spot on. So many people have learned to master the software without considering how to weave a compelling story. It's important to design the plot (and the moral, or desired end result) before adding the illustrations. I never thought much about how the audience should focus on the presenter vs. the slide, but it is true. It is the presenter that brings the story to life, not the slides. If the presenter can't do that, it's highly unlikely the slides will.

Date reviewed: Jun 13, 2006 11:47 PM

Nickname: cris

Review: Thanks! This is great for college and grad students! Now I realize what I need to do and here I was trying to model after fellow students and wondering why it was so boring! I need to use my extroverted, entertaining personality and understand what was wrong with the PP approach before. Thanks again! -Christine

Date reviewed: Jun 8, 2006 4:21 AM

Nickname: Rentable CFO

Review: PowerPoint is the ultimate example of software making it easy to do very foolish things. Digging through some old boxes, I found a file of stuff I kept from my days at McKinsey circa 1979, including hand-made acetate slides. Back then it was common to discuss huge issues with the help of 4-5 slides, because that's all that was possible without an art department. Not really a bad thing at all! Look at Cliff Atkinson: Beyond Bullet Points. Wonderful concepts, easy to bring into an organization as I have done.

Date reviewed: Jun 7, 2006 7:18 PM

Nickname: ethnicomm

Review: Although this article is a good start for the masses that are inundated with PowerPoint "decks," I wonder why the article did not cover the relatively newer theory of what I would call "PowerPoint Minimalism." The audience is more and more driven by visual cues and although Carmine suggests making use of visuals with a few bullet points--how about the Web 2.0 approach to presentations? A title and a graphic--that's it! He refers to Chet Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Points. This should have been the main point of the article. The presenter should engage the audience with a story, not merely elaborating on a few bullet points.

Date reviewed: Jun 7, 2006 6:14 PM

Nickname: HaloBlu

Review: This is great advice and unfortunately isn't commonly known among PowerPoint users and presenters. So thank you!

Date reviewed: Jun 7, 2006 4:31 PM

Nickname: Ginny

Review: Great article. Perfect timing, as I'm starting to overhaul a couple of very long PowerPoint presentations we've been using. Thanks.

Date reviewed: Jun 7, 2006 2:49 PM