Design - Presentations - Lukas Bergstrom's weblog

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This is Lukas Bergstrom's personal weblog. You might want to visit my professional site. You can also find me on Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.

5/12/09
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Enhancing our Grasp of Complex Arguments

The most common tool used by (corporate and government) decision-makers to show structured arguments is, of course, PowerPoint. And because no single "argument template" is appropriate, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better one.

see also Ninja Tools for Meetings

1/16/07
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Powerpoint Karaoke

Joi: "You get up. They cue up a random presentation. You ad lib it." Morbid fascination here; same part of the brain that urges me to sprint through traffic.

3/21/06
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Presentation Zen
"blog on issues related to professional presentation design"

See for example No excuse for tedium: Advice on giving technical presentations.

5/16/05
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ok i'm sorta spoiled
My boss is handing out copies of Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" to everyone in our group. Pretty subversive given that our company is built on slides.

2/7/04
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seven steps to better presentations
Basic stuff.

10/7/03
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the pyramid principle
Book about writing - both documents and presentations - by a woman who used to teach the subject at McKinsey.
(cheap enough at amazon uk that it might actually be worth buying)

9/29/03
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visual language
Make better slides.

8/22/03
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PowerPoint Is Evil
by Edward Tufte

1/9/03
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absolute powerpoint - can a software package edit our thoughts?
New Yorker critique.

And a corrective: It's the Story, Stupid.