Sometimes presentations go horribly wrong. This is a collection of those moments. With a cautionary tale...don't let this happen to you.
Where It All Went Wrong
How to give a memorable presentation.
- Top Ten Presentation Disasters
- Microsoft makes a list of how things can go wrong so quickly. An example: 'I once attended a customer presentation with 200 people in audience where the presenter forgot to switch off their wireless connection and Instant Messaging (IM). Half way through the presentation, the IM notification window popped up%u2026 "Wet Patch has just signed in."'
- Steve Ballmer Does the "Monkeyboy Dance"
- You know, there's energy, and then there's a moment that you wish you'd forget. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer probably wouldn't put this one in his "finest moments" scrapbook.
- Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers
- Um you know it's gone wrong when your presentation has more mods than the original had viewers. This one from MacComedy is the funniest of the Steve Ballmer clips all rolled into one comical ball.
- Even Steve Jobs Isn't Infallible
- Here's a compendium of bloopers from Apple Kenote presentations. The cool part is that even when it's bad, it's good with Steve.
- The Gettysburg Address...in PowerPoint
- Four score and seven ways to make a great speech into a disaster.
You Scream, I Scream, Howard Dean Screams for Political Dreams
The scream that ended a presidential bid.
Don't Try This at Home
They're trained professionals.
- The Ten Worst Presentation Habits
- From Business Week comes this set of bad habits. Don't try these at home, kids.
- How to Give a Bad Presentation
- The 10 Commandments for making a bad presentation. Examples: Thou shalt not be neat; Thou shalt not covet brevity;l and Thou shalt not make eye contact.
- 10 Ways to Give a Bad Presentation
- "Just wing it" is a beauty piece of advice. Coupled with "finish weak" and you have the formula for a guaranteed bad presentation.
Ferris Bueller's Classicly Bad Teacher
Don't, c'mon, anybody. Starts with three letters, ends in d-o-o?
Have You Seen a Bad Presentation?
We've all been there...
Do you have a favorite presentation that was exquisite in its awfulness? Let us know here.
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FrankRoche
It doesn't always have to be bad. I love this article called Stop Your Presentation Before It Kills Again. Kathy says that sometimes the best presentation is no presentation at all. Posted September 20, 2006 |
