Tuesday, September 30th, 2008...11:24 am
Soothing the dead cat bounce with a little PowerPoint subversion…
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This morning saw a sharp rise in the markets - known as a “dead cat bounce” by financial analysts. After a spectacular crash, the stock markets often rebound sharply - but this isn’t a real indication of improvement. Apparently, even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height.
Wondering how we’re going to link this bouncing dead cat, Powerpoint subversion and your non profit? Check out our handy PowerPoint below!
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October 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I loved the post, while disagreeing with parts of it. As a teacher who has used PowerPoint in every lecture I have given in the past five or six years, I’ve come to believe that the revolutionary potential of PowerPoint resides in its aesthetics, and not (especially, or necessarily) in what is said in text. PowerPoint has the power to evoke with images in a way that does more than merely supplement text or repeat in a condensed form what the speaker is saying: good PowerPoint captures the audience’s eyes, stimulates their imaginations, and then resides in their minds as a visual memory, a flashbulb hook for the ideas presented. You’re absolutely right about PPT and narrative - it can tell a story *better* than presenters can on their own, but only if the PPT presentation contains minimal text, few bullets, and powerful images. Think out of the box and beyond stick figures!
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