Presenting in Public, Should You Use PowerPoint?

PowerPoint. PowerPoint is your friend. Always use PowerPoint. Use it for pictures, use it for presentations, use it for everything. It's often a great help to you. It's an aid memoir, right? Write all your speaker notes onto the PowerPoint slides. It doesn't matter how many points there are. It doesn't matter how small the size of the font is. You can read it as well. You can turn around and read it. It's amazing. You need no preparation. What could be better or easier for you? PowerPoint kills. PowerPoint bores people. If you haven't been bored by a PowerPoint presentation, you haven't seen one. PowerPoint presentations should be used in only the most exceptional circumstances when they actually underpin and support what you're saying, not when they replace what you're saying and not when they're a crutch for your memory or your preparation.

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