How NOT To Use PowerPoint

A friend of mine was kind enough to spice up my afternoon by sharing with me this video. It summarizes most of my grievances I have with presenters who get their kicks out of sentencing you to death by powerpoint!


For crying out loud, please avoid the following if you still have some humanity in you…

1. Write everything you want to say on your slide.
2. Not rinning spell chek.
3. Use excessive bullet points to highlight key points.
4. Choose really bad colour schemes like yellow on lime green background.
5. Rush through 80 slides in one hour.
6. Shove sensless data to your audience.
7. Add animations that does nothing but give you migraines

14 Comments so far

  1. Ee Chuan on June 20th, 2007

    Hi Eric

    It’s Ee Chuan here! How’s things with you? :-)

    I have started a new blog on public speaking and it is called Speaking Life.

    Would you consider putting a link to my humble site as we share similar objectives to promote public speaking and toastmastering?

    I have already included a link from my blog to your excellent one here.

    Would greatly appreciate it!

    All the best and catch up with you during COT or one of our chapter meetings.

    Ee Chuan

  2. Eric on June 21st, 2007

    Done! :)

  3. KC on June 25th, 2007

    Tell me you put “Not rinning spell chek” on purpose. Haha.

  4. Eric on June 25th, 2007

    Haha, yes I did that on purpose. I din know you read this blog. How’s work in Hong Kong? Coming back anytime soon?

  5. KC on June 26th, 2007

    Just checking out some tips to prepare myself for a TM journey as well. Anyway I would be back next week for Commencement - will stay from 5th to 11th.

  6. Eric on June 26th, 2007

    Cya then! :)

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