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Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 02 December 2012 16:26 UTC

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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:26:19 -0000
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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)
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>Anyone for incorporating a slide (!) into the Newcomer's
>Presentation (!!) that says "a presentation in a f2f meeting
>that makes extensive use of PowerPoint decks with many and/or
>dense slides brands the presenter as either a newcomer, someone
>who is trying to avoid an actual discussion, or a fool"?   :-(

No, just hand out copies of this:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp

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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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