Microsoft PowerPoint presentations have become a stable of “The office meeting”. It used to be strictly reserved for more formal meetings, however with its increasing popularity there are really no restrictions on what types of meetings it is used for today. However, while it is a fantastic tool and very versatile, there are situations where it is overkill to use a PowerPoint presentation. It sounds crazy, but it’s true. Sometimes the benefits of creating a PowerPoint presentation just don’t outweigh the costs.

The following are the situations I’m talking about:

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Yesterday I had the singular displeasure of sitting through a particularly bad presentation, so bad that I had to write this article as a form of catharsis (see: Aristotle). Without further ado, here are my Top 3 Presenting Don’ts:

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What do these three things have in common:

High speed internet access
Instant text messaging
Instant paging

The answer is that all three of these mediums deliver large amounts of information in small amounts of time in concise messages. This points to one of the new principals of our society today: We want all the information we need, without a lot of filler, and we want it now. There is no better example of this principal in action than in today’s workplace. It is for this reason that I’ve found the following article by Rix Quinn to be very relevant to today’s business professional. Below is the article, my thoughts follow immediately after:

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