The Cult of Powerpoint
I tweeted an innocuous statement this week about how I didn't believe in PowerPoint® and got some interesting comments and discussions about it. Dan Holden said it would make a good blog post... An I think he was right. I've always hated this application and snort loudly when it's called a productivity tool because it is anything but. I'm not alone in this belief. The Department of Defense has had a very strict limit on presentations because it started eating up server and man-power bandwidth 10 years ago. And things haven't gotten any better. Yesterday I was part of the 2025 Virtual Conference, speaking on the future of media. The day before they asked for my presentation and I said I didn't have one and would not be using it. Took them a few seconds to process that information. "Really? No presentation?" Our panel closed the first day, went off without a hitch and was quite animated. I checked in on a couple other session...