You’ll often hear experts argue as to whether PowerPoint is an effective tool for online presentations, or that we should stop using it entirely. According to Geoffrey James’s article in Inc. Magazine, “Zoom + PowerPoint = Hell On Earth”, he says: PowerPoint is a productivity toilet because: Listening to a presentation takes ten times longer than reading a brief document containing the same information. Audiences remember less when they’re simultaneously confronted with two different versions of the same information. It encourages horrible communication techniques like bullet lists, striptease reveals, complex diagrams, cut-rate animation and cheesy stock photos. Second Meme The harsh truth is that PowerPoint is not the problem it’s the way we have been trained to present that is the problem. Long ago when PowerPoint was first introduced it was used entirely as a visual aid to support the speaker; in which you (the presenter) would be up on stage or in front of the board room giving your pitch while having some key points in the background behind you.
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