Oh sure — by night I fight crime, rescue orphans, and do graphic design for churches. But by day? By day I’m a marketing communications professional for one of the largest defense contractors in the world. And part of the territory is, unfortunately, PowerPoint. I know, I know. It burns my eyes as I use it, but it’s just a fact of life that I must wrestle with Microsoft’s soulless presentation software to present even more soulless data, tables, numbers, and other uninteresting tidbits that are necessary information to be communicated.
So needless to say (and yet here I am saying it) I’m always looking for ways to improve on my presentations and make them more interesting and, frankly, bearable to my audience.
Enter Nancy Duarte, author of Slide:ology and a PowerPoint/Presentation Guru supreme. Nancy was the mastermind behind Al Gore’s now world famous (or infamous depending on your views) “An Inconvenient Truth” presentation. So she obviously knows how to make even the most boring person and topics in the world (ahem) seem interesting, and now in the below video, shares that knowledge with us. Enjoy:
