The Mobile Presenter

Fellow presentation enthusiast Nicole Gugger recently posted an article (in German) defending PowerPoint against all the boilerplate criticism. Bashing PowerPoint is popular. It has almost become a meme. Yet, as Nicole points out, they are aiming at the wrong target: Not the tool is to blame but the person using it.

I found it funny that she has now been "challenged" to a sort of duel by another presentation coach. He suggested that she'd do a couple of presentations in PowerPoint and he'd do the same with only a flip chart - and then let people decide which one is better.

While that sounds like a fun thing to do, it completely misses the point of Nicole's article.

I'm not a designer. Yet, in order to create (i.e. design) more effective slides, you need to be familiar with at least a few of the basic principles of design.

One example that I use (in the book as well as in the workshop) is the Rule of Thirds.

It's been a year since my ebook, Presenting for Geeks, came out. I just wanted to say thanks to those who bought it, read it, and recommended it.

You helped to make the world of presentations a little better and more bearable.

On this blog, I try not to repeat things that are already covered in the book. It resulted in over 50 articles since then. Thanks for reading those, too.

This may be somewhat off-topic for this site, but after the recent incident with the Keynote update breaking the Satechi remote, I had to search for instructions on how to restore an older version of an iOS app. Since this may come in handy, I'll add my own writeup here.

(Post last updated January 1, 2015)

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