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And what a PowerPoint, WOW! This year’s best PowerPoint was crowned the winner by slideshare.net is “Smoke-The Convenient Truth”. Here we can really get inspired by the symbolism, color use, minimalism, comparisons; even the font feels smoky. Excellent job!

And my opinion is always the one that before you begin the construction of a presentation, you should decide what type of feeling you want to generate, because it is above all a sense that your recipient will take with them for days, and weeks thereafter. In this presentation, they obviously had the aim of instilling a sense of shock and frustration. I had rather hoped for a combination of shock + motivation to do something about the misery.

Interest in Presentation Development is growing steadily right now, which is really great! I built this presentation, together with the furniture company Kinnarps.

The original presentation was built by a PR agency (oops!). After “the total remake” the result was an awesomely clear PowerPoint that went in black, white and gray with a boxing theme to convey the feeling of struggle and possibility.

Link to the example(PPT)
Link to the example(PDF)

When I build PowerPoint presentations I love to draw inspiration from advertising posters. But the inspiration failed to materialise this time…

I went by train up to Bollnäs yesterday; the last leg was in an X-traffic train, where I in each wagon was met by a tragic advertisement of something that probably should have been viewed as positive. The advertisement made reference (as you can see to the right) that there would be positive to load their travel card multiple times. Errors are twofold:

1. Do not use the color red for positive association; if the red color was used to draw attention they should have been happy with the woman’s red clothing.

2.The symbolism of the red X over the trash can is wrong because it suggests something negative again, and secondly, it is not a straightforward illustration.

It would have been better if the text had been green, and the illustration positive. I would also have formulated the rhetorical question less demanding and more inviting, for example, “Now you don’t have to buy a new card each month” …

Good PowerPoint presentations doesn’t grow on trees, therefore we are extra lucky when we sometimes stumble over presenters who is using PowerPoint in an exceptional way. Watch, enjoy and learn.

PopTech 2009: Michael Pollan from PopTech on Vimeo.

Christmas is almost here! But we still have time for a couple of posts. PowerPoint can be used in a hundred different ways, of which 50 are bad, 40 are disastrous and 5 are too tricky to even talk about. But 5 PowerPoint’s of 100 is quite good. Alex Ohanian implements one of those. An interesting presentation on the power and simplicity of social media. The PowerPoint is consistently very good except for some screenshots of a text chat. The main words are simplistic and visual. In addition, his tempo is far too high and there are too few pauses. At 2:02 he does something pretty funny; he types “The art of pauses” in his PowerPoint. Fun effect

How many slides should you have, or is recommended that one should have in a PowerPoint? The answer is that it doesn’t matter. It would be like asking how many pages a book should have. However, what is extremely important is the amount of information per slide, where you always strive for minimalism, no sentences, and max 6 points/objects per slide. A person who in an excellent way of proving that the number of slides doesn’t matter is Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 presentation.

Ever since 1984, PowerPoint had a somewhat improbable dominance in the market for presentation software. 25 years! However, in recent days, the worldview was shattered by Prezi.com, which is new innovative presentation software. It does not replace PowerPoint but beats old honest PowerPoint when it comes to presentations where it is important to show a clear overall, process, or a route. If you are working with these types of presentations so you really have no choice but to turn to Prezi.com. Congratulations!