"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:1073321751.406119_at_yasure...
> Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> > Blame Powerpoint.
> > Jim
>
> Ah projectorware.
>
> At the Puget Sound Oracle Users Group, and at my classes at the
> University of Washington slide presentations are prohibited. Anyone that
> expects to present ... had better be prepared to do so with a live
> Oracle database.
>
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> Daniel Morgan
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Yes, I was referring to a recent news item about someone blaming Powerpoint
for the space shuttle tile problem. The gist of the article (title something
like "Powerpoint makes you dumb") was that the amount of detailed
information that you could display in Powerpoint is much more limited than
properly designed graphs and a paper. The PowerPoint Presentation crowd had
a tendency to dumb down the illustration and points to the point that upper
management was making decisions based on heavily consolidated information.
I have a tendency to agree that sometimes boiling your presentation down to
5 points a page can really lose the important detail for making decisions.
In short PP was good for sales illustrations and that is about it.
Jim
Received on Mon Jan 05 2004 - 19:22:15 CST
