PowerPoint presentations don't have to be painful to give, boring to
watch, or confounding to read. Mindful design is one key in
transforming bad presentations into good ones. Stepping outside of
typical PowerPoint practice is another. Here's how.
Top Blogs and Sites for PowerPoint
- Tony's PowerPoint Weblog
- My blog about Microsoft PowerPoint, presentations, presentation design, and related topics. (RSS coming soon!)
- Beyond Bullets
- Cliff Atkinson of Sociable Media hosts a companion blog to his book "Beyond Bullet Points" from Microsoft Press.
- A PowerPoint Blog by Indezine
- Comprehensive PPT news, views, and interviews.
- The PowerPoint FAQ
- Not only all the Frequently Asked Questions, but many infrequently asked ones as well. All technical queries should start here. Content-rich.
- Presentation Zen
- Garr Reynolds' insightful weblog on issues related to presentation design and methodology.
- Official Microsoft PowerPoint Homepage
- Articles, templates, training, downloads, links. More here than most people realize, and always being updated.
PPT Newsgroup
Current Q&A at the PowerPoint newsgroup
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Current books and essays printed on paper
PPT Reading Online
Current essays you can read right now
- Absolute PowerPoint by Ian Parker
- "Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts?" appeared in the May 28, 2001 issue of the New Yorker and launched many of the PowerPoint backlash-oriented articles that follow even to today.
- PowerPoint is Evil by Edward Tufte
- From the Sept 2003 issue of Wired, Tufte distills his anti-PPT essay (The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint) to a much shorter form.
- In Defense of PowerPoint by Don Norman
- Design maven and web luminary Don Norman replies to Tufte in no uncertain terms.
- It's the Story, Stupid by Doc Searls
- Another web visionary was sounding the alarm and offering advice early on; Doc Searls' essay is subtitled "Dont Let Presentation Software Keep You from Getting Your Story Across" and was published in August, 1998.
- Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it) by Seth Godin
- Our gracious host here at Squidoo, Seth Godin, penned a short but pithy essay on PPT not long ago. Once the bestselling ebook at Amazon, it is now your free prize inside SethGodin.com.
- The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
- Satiric demonstration of choosing the wrong tool for the job. Might very well be the most popularly viewed PowerPoint slides of all time.
