Screencast: Contrasting Sequencing with Death by PowerPoint®

Published 15 September 8 10:51 PM | Aaron Stannard

Over the past few days we have made the case for using animation in your PowerPoint® presentations, and today we intend to reinforce our argument with a powerful illustration. In today's screencast we are going to compare and contrast "Death by PowerPoint®," "Data Dumping," and presentations that use sequencing properly in order to underscore how effective good animation can be. It's our pleasure to present to you, "Contrasting Sequencing with Death by PowerPoint®:"

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# Fred Krasco said on September 22, 2008 11:08 AM:

great presentation

# BarbaraL857 said on September 22, 2008 11:39 AM:

The presentation made good common sense.  I wish all presenters worked in this fashion.  It would make sitting through presentations a lot more bearable.

# Jim Richards said on September 22, 2008 5:25 PM:

I agree it is a commonsense approach for the data being presented.  However, I found it a little biased.  The same sequencing approach could have been used in the Powerpoint presentation using its animation features, but presenting in graphical form is better than the text form.

# Working Smarter said on October 6, 2008 9:21 AM:

If you watched our previous two screencasts, one where we contrasted poor presentation techniques with

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