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Here’s a link to a presentation I prepared for Ignite Seattle. The premise was that we had to come up with exactly 20 slides (no more, no less) that would be presented for exactly 15 seconds each. So I came up with a 12-step process to help us all prepare better PowerPoint presentations.

Based on the AA model, it begins with admitting that we are powerless. It then proceeded through the rest of the 12 step model.  The punch line?  I didn’t manage to get there to present it!  So here’s your only chance to see it.

Bad Powerpoint! Bad! Bad! from dick carlson on Vimeo.

Bad PowerPoint!  Bad!  Bad!

This actually came from a white paper, but it supported a presentation at ASTD — so I suspect this appeared in a PPT deck.  I’m hoping the red/green color scheme was for the holidays, and not their idea of great readability.

If you’re thinking about change, you need warm and fuzzy support. Anyone remember the man’s prayer from the Red Green show?

“I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.”

That about sums it up for me. But this slide on change effort is too much effort for me:

So what type of change would help, here?

• Some color — the black and white does print nice, tho
• Type that you can read, that’s consistent
• Lose the big black blocks, or at least bold the type
• Did I mention a consistent font?
• Bigger type

Now that’s change I can handle.

Sometimes you see an image that is desperately crying out for an intervention.  I wonder if later on, the other slides surprised this one and took it off to rehab.