1. Don’t Blame
PowerPoint
It’s just a vehicle

2. Don’t Blame
PowerPoint
It’s just a vehicle
…That is often driven poorly

3. In a car crash it is nearly
always the driver who is
to blame

4. NOT the vehicle itself

5. But when it comes to
bad presentations
people are quick to
blame PowerPoint

6. Some misguided people
even start political
parties
against it

7. This is stupid.

8. This is stupid.
Really Stupid.

9. A PowerPoint deck is not
the presentation

10. A PowerPoint deck is not
the presentation
PowerPoint is a vehicle
for your visual aids

11. Your presentation is your
message and your
information.
It takes hours of careful
craft and consideration

12. Your PowerPoint is your
vehicle to communicate
well thought out and
complementary visual
aids.

13. PowerPoint isn’t “evil”

14. PowerPoint isn’t “evil”
It’s neutral

15. We don’t think of other
content vehicles in the
same way…

16. For Example…

17. Outlook & Gmail are
not to blame for
crappy emails

18. It’s your annoying Boss
and his inability to
be concise
I write a
damn fine
email :-)

19. It wasn’t the physical
vinyl records that made
the Beatles awesome

20. It was their music, creativity
& the hard work that
went with it

21. George Orwell wasn’t
famous because he chose
to write on paper…

22. It was his stories,
writing style
& insights

23. It isn’t your phone’s fault
that your conversation
sucks

24. It’s just that your friend is a
really boring guy!

25. Blaming the vehicle/
medium in any of these
cases would be

26. Absurd

27. It is the content & how
it is delivered that is
important

28. NOT the vehicle used
to do it

29. As a presenter you need to
bring your audience from

30. As a presenter you need to
bring your audience from
Mental Point
A

31. As a presenter you need to
bring your audience from
Mental Point
A To Mental Point
B

32. You should use whatever
vehicle works for you

33. The audience don’t see…

34. The audience don’t see…

35. The audience don’t see…

36. The audience don’t see…

37. They see a
screen…

38. Tell a good story and
make effective, thoughtful
visuals and they won’t
know or care what
software you used

39. Concentrating on the
vehicle, rather than the
route can
go badly…

40. What’s more…

41. It’s a freaking
LAZY excuse

42. The worst thing about
the PowerPoint blame
game is that it distracts
from the real issue

43. Laziness

44. By blaming the
presentation software
we take focus off the
real problem

45. Lazy Users

46. We absolve
users of any real
responsibility

47. We absolve
users of any real
responsibility
Are you
calling me
LAZY!

48. Hell YEH!
We absolve
users of any real
responsibility
Are you
calling me
LAZY!

49. The reality is that making
bad presentations is a
user-choice

50. Making
bulletpoint filled
slides is a choice

51. This…

53. Was a choice

55. This was a choice

57. Yep…

58. A choice

59. You can use PowerPoint
as an autocue, but
again that
is a choice

60. You can choose to
ignore great books like

61. Poor usage of the
vehicle is a choice.

62. Like with a car, you can
choose to drive
recklessly

63. You can choose to drive
to the wrong place

64. And you can choose to
ignore the maps…

65. But that isn’t the
car’s fault

66. So…

67. Let’s focus on what really
matters

68. Let’s focus on what really
matters the Presentation

69. And send the vehicle
blame game to the
scrapheap

70. If you agree
then why
not spread
the word

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