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[Madelyn Blair]

Gary,

Great response to an idea that is really about organizing your  
thoughts before you speak. Somehow, the lost the very essence of the  
idea in the implementation.

One of the techniques I use for my presentations is to select  
pictures only for each main message. Once the picture is chosen, I  
may or may not add a word or few. Now, this is discipline that both  
organizes your thoughts AND audiences love.

Madelyn

Madelyn Blair, Ph.D.
Pelerei, Inc.
Turning Vision into Reality
www.pelerei.com
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On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Gary Lear wrote:

> Stephanie,
>
> I think this is a horrible idea and only encourages the continued  
> misuse of
> PowerPoint.  Rather than using fewer slides that are content rich,  
> this approach
> is encouraging the continued use of more slides with less information.
>
> I can easily talk for 20 minutes on a single slide from some of the  
> slides that
> I've created, and I'm not talking about slides that have so much  
> stuff jammed on
> it that you can't read them, either (some other time we can discuss  
> the "5 x 7
> rule" that seems to be violated all the time).  20 seconds for a  
> slide is
> ridiculous!  If there is that little information on a slide then  
> you probably
> don't need a slide.
>
> As a participant, I can't imagine being forced to watch 20 slides  
> in 6 minutes
> and 40 seconds.  That, in itself, would totally turn me off.  If  
> this is being
> done online I've probably zoned out and I'm off checking other  
> stuff, such as
> e-mail, because I've not had an opportunity to study the  
> information and I've
> given up on trying to follow the presentation, or the information  
> is so
> redundant that I don't need to see it in the first place.  I'd go  
> bonkers if I
> had to listen to an hour of 6 minute and 40 second presentations!!!
>
> Trying to limit bad presentations in time and number of slides  
> doesn't make them
> any less of a bad presentation.  The amount of time spent on a  
> presentation
> should be based on the amount of information needing to be conveyed  
> and its
> importance, not dictated by software.  We also need to teach people  
> that we
> don't need a slide for every single thing we talk about.
>
> I believe that we should be focusing on helping people to do better
> presentations, not in trying to limit the amount of time spent on bad
> presentations that are still bad.
>
> Anyway, those are my thoughts.
>
> Make a Great Day!
>
> Gary Lear, President & CEO
> Inscape Certified DiSC Trainer
>
> Resource Development Systems LLC
> Managing the Human Side of Business (sm)
>
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>
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