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Really Bad PowerPoint, Revisited
Download a FREE e-book!
Toward a Clearer xPLANATiON
Toxic PowerPoint in Government
The New Sociable Media Template
Five Experts Dispute Edward Tufte
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Welcome to the
April 2004 Issue!
Some very creative thinkers bring their insights to bear on PowerPoint, including Seth Godin and Dave Gray, and a number of experts, including Seth, disagree with Edward Tufte on PowerPoint here. We're also excited to begin to offer materials through our new bookstore, including Five Ways to Reduce Cognitive Overload - click here to download the FREE e-book. |
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Really Bad PowerPoint, Revisited:
Q&A with Seth Godin, bestselling author |
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Seth Godin is the author of five bestselling books and was recently chosen as one of "21 Speakers for the Next Century” by Successful Meetings. As you can expect, Seth has a few things to say about PowerPoint, especially since his 2001 e-book Really Bad PowerPoint (and How to Avoid It), was an Amazon bestseller...more> |
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Download a FREE e-book from the new Sociable Media store! |
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| PowerPoint overload is a serious problem in many organizations, and this 15-page document explains why and what you can do about it. Written by the leading organizational consultant in PowerPoint issues and the most prolific researcher in the field of educational psychology, Five Ways presents a pathway to a clearer future of PowerPoint communications...download PDF >
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A Clearer xPLANATiON: Q&A with Dave Gray, chairman of xPlane |
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| Many people dream of a day when words and pictures will come together to make complicated ideas easier to understand. Dave Gray has been turning that dream into reality since 1993 when he founded xPlane, the 'visual thinking company'. xPlane has since illustrated the most important strategic ideas of big and small companies, and has advanced the field of infographics...more> |
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Is PowerPoint Toxic to Good Government? by Paul Byron Pattak |
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| "For 25 years, I have worked either as an employee of, or a consultant to, the U.S. Government, and have consulted for several government commissions. Over the years, I have learned a few things about how information is presented within government environments. They illustrate some interesting and disturbing trends that make government less effective for all of us...more> |
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Structure Your Story (with the NEW Sociable Media Template!) |
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| One of the hardest things for anyone to do is to focus, clarify and simplify an important idea. A tool that can help you is no farther away than an existing software program already installed on your computer -- PowerPoint. Expand your mind, and your software, with this new learning module and template, which we're "soft-launching" first to newsletter subscribers here> |
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Five Experts Dispute Edward Tufte on PowerPoint |
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| Although it might seem that Edward Tufte had the last word on PowerPoint with his essay, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, it turns out a number of experts disagree with him, in some cases very strongly. To find out more about what Don Norman, Gene Zelazny, Bob Horn, Seth Godin, and Rich Mayer said about Tufte in recent interviews at Sociable Media, visit here> |
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