Death by PowerPoint (and what to do about it)

Facilitated by: Zoran Svetlicic, Landor Associates, who would welcome any help from others scarred by PowerPoint

We live in the age of the slideshow. From its humble origins as an aid for salesmen 20 years ago, the software we all love to hate has become the de facto medium of communications in business, and increasingly education and government as well. We use PowerPoint not just to sell widgets, but also to submit book reports in grade schools and start wars.

Back in the 60s Marshall McLuhan taught us that societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate then by the content of the communication. While it is very tempting to simply jump on the PowerPoint backlash bandwagon, we will instead try to:

• Debate the effects PowerPoint as a medium has on our thinking, both constructive and corrosive
• Share solutions to the common accusations hurled at PowerPoint
• Tour a sample of the emerging Web 2.0 apps like SlideShare and Google Presentations and discuss their impact

See, bullet points aren't always that bad.

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