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 differing versions of the same information. It encourages horrible communication techniques like bullet lists, striptease reveals, complex diagrams, cut-rate animation and cheesy stock photos
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