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Death by PowerPoint #3 – Creative Replacement for Slides

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Part 3: Creative Replacements for Slides   Sometimes it’s not the smoking that you miss. It’s the act of playing with the cigarette.  In the previous two articles*, I militated against the audience-genocide visited upon humanity by PowerPoint slides. But what if, like the quitting smoker, you need something else […]

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Death by Power Point #2 – Presentation Structures that Replace the Need for Slides

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Part 2: 10 Presentation Structures that Replace the Need for Slides    In the previous article, we used scientific methodology to establish that PowerPoint now outnumbers homo sapiens, has become sentient and self-perpetuating, and will soon rise up and trigger the Apocalypse. Happily, there are alternatives. If you’re brave enough […]

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Death by Powerpoint #1 – 7 reasons you could do better without slides

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7 Reasons you could do better without slides Jim Nelson, a man who served as a translator between the American and Russian troops in Bosnia, tells a story about the Russians watching with bemused fascination as their unlikely allies designed their slides. One non-plussed Russians famously said, “If we ever […]

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