Powerful Powerpoint Presentations

Often during our business / working lives we keep on doing the same old ways of presenting our thoughts / proposals on those 3 x 4 size screens of Powerpoint. In the process of cramming up our presentation, we tend to forget that after all we are supposed to communicate our thoughts – not just present them!

There’s a cool site which I came across through Rowan’s Blog which offers a novel way of sharing thoughts thru online slideshows.

This site has some exciting Powerpoint tips, e.g.:

How to get your slides noticed
Balance Hearts and Minds
Title Slide Makeover
Get your title right
Your Agenda Slide
Epigrammatical

The last one, a 34 slide presentation, is a collection of aphorisms, jokes and thoughts which its author Rowan Manahan usually presents as a looped slideshow before a presentation – when invitees are arriving and taking their seats. A few of these aphorisms are quite interesting:

• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative (this is the best of the lot!)
  
• Generalizations are always false
• The problem with the rat-race is that even if you win, still you're a rat
• Mathematics and alcohol do not mix well - don't drink and derive
• Mud thrown is ground lost.
• Excellence makes people nervous.
• Instant gratification takes too long
• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind
• To succeed in this life all you need are ignorance and confidence in equal measure

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