AudibleInk - The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.58 EAN: 9780961392161 ISBN: 0961392169 Label: Graphics Press Manufacturer: Graphics Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 32 Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Graphics Press Studio: Graphics Press
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Don't waste your money Comment: This short article - it is not long enough to be called a book - is more of a rant than useful instruction. Save your money. He has written several good books on data presentation; this is not one of them. Customer Rating: Summary: Has many excellent points about presentations Comment: This is a very good read for everyone who has relied on powerpoints to disseminate information, especially critical information Customer Rating: Summary: Standard issue Comment: Reading and adherence to the guidelines in this handy little tome should be standard operating practice for all who prepare presentations for an audience - be it a classroom, board of directors or jury. Customer Rating: Summary: Required Reading for Government Communicators Comment: Whether you love or hate Microsoft PowerPoint and its kin, you owe it to yourself to listen to Edward Tufte. His argument is well-reasoned and the evidence damning. While most of us will continue to crank out PowerPoint presentations, we should know the dangers of the form and commit ourselves to "first, do no harm." Customer Rating: Summary: PowerPoint: The Dark Side Comment: Edward Tufte insightfully tells us how PowerPoint corrupts the communication process by forcing its format on content. For me, this is just another example of dumbing down in general. No longer do managers communicate via reasoned analysis through narrative. No, all communication must be as brief as possible and to the point. Unfortunately, sometimes the point needs more than just a multi-bulleted slide. Tufte's argument is highlighted by the PowerPoint parody of the Gettysburg Address. I too experience the constraint of expressing important detail, context and relationships when the expectation is to fit it into a Word table or a Power Point presentation. Now, this is not a call for wordiness. Unnecessarily long and tedious papers will do just as well in stifling communication. The point is to learn to write well and communicate well, without surrendering to the allure of the promises of new technology that may actually provide the opposite. Read Tufte's treatise and get a good idea of what not to do and why. More Reviews