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Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

• To: Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Subject: Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:27:44 -0500
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Chiusano Joseph scripsit:

> Interestingly enough, the firm I work for (Booz Allen Hamilton) has its
> own "PowerPoint culture" which deviates from what I consider to be the
> norm. All presentations are expected to have headings that are complete
> sentences so that they read like a "storyboard" - so for instance,
> instead of having a heading such as "Benefits of XML", we are expected
> to have "The benefits of XML are numerous, and...blah blah blah".
> Additionally, the body of the slides are expected to come as close as
> possible to standing on their own, so that one can understand all of the
> points even if they view the slides without the speaker supporting them.

Well, I very much subscribe to the second point.  It never occured to
me, though to treat the titles as headlines rather than titles.

-- 
"Well, I'm back."  --Sam        John Cowan <jcowan@r...>

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