Solo Practice

A New Kind of Powerpoint

After a few recent presentations that were so dull that I nearly snoozed through them myself, I picked up a copy of Cliff Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Points for some new inspiration. Atkinson's main point: treat a presentation like a Hollywood production. While that's a tall order with a topic as dull as regulation, I decided to give it a shot. Even though we think of Power Point as a form, it impacts the substance of a talk as well - and Atkinson's book forced me to reconsider my entire approach to my materials. Though I didn't quite escape bullet points entirely, here's the link to the end result (I will try to figure out how to embed it in the post later.

Full post as published by My Shingle.com on April 19, 2008 (boomark / email).