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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Is PowerPoint Oversimplifying Our Military Strategy?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</guid><description><![CDATA[PowerPoint is a cancer.  <br><br>If done correctly, the room is bored by the third slide.  If done incorrectly, the person giving the presentation puts everything they are going to say on the slides then read it aloud, leading viewers to stop taking that person seriously forever.  <br><br>It's also the number #1 cause of me dropping classes when I was in school.  I can't tell you how many times I walked in to a room with a fat, bespectacled moron reading paragraphs upon paragraphs directly from the PowerPoint presentation we were told to read the night before.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Making11s]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 27th 2010 3:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Is PowerPoint Oversimplifying Our Military Strategy?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</guid><description><![CDATA[ I once briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the days of PowerPoint.  We had to reduce our presentation of real slides for use on an opaque projector.  The Chiefs also got copies of the slides and the script of the presentation ahead of time.  Except in my case, where I was told hours before the briefing that the Chief of Naval Operations thought that my 17 slides were too many and would confuse or lose his counterparts regarding this vital Navy-oriented program.  This threw the system into turmoil and I ultimately told all the people between me (a lowly O-5) and the Chiefs that I would take four or five slides from the 17 and talk to them.  I was still handwriting my new script when they called me in for the briefing.  Of course after the briefing is done, they kick the subject matter expert out and come to a decision on what to do.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jbennett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 28th 2010 1:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Is PowerPoint Oversimplifying Our Military Strategy?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</guid><description><![CDATA[I suggest people read the work of Edward Tufte on powerpoint.  He made these same points years ago concerning  NASA and the space shuttle accident.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CSeekell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 30th 2010 4:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Is PowerPoint Oversimplifying Our Military Strategy?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</guid><description><![CDATA[but don't you think the problem might not be the technology -- like, let's not blame powerpoint -- but the actual STRATEGY the powerpoint is trying to help them understand?<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meghan-ohara/diagram-of-a-war-strategy_b_555389.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meghan-ohara/diagram-of-a-war-strategy_b_555389.html</a><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mcchrystal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 28th 2010 4:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Is PowerPoint Oversimplifying Our Military Strategy?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's exactly what I wrote. Third paragraph. Thanks for reading.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Zuras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 28th 2010 4:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Is PowerPoint Oversimplifying Our Military Strategy?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/04/27/is-powerpoint-oversimplifying-our-military-strategy/</guid><description><![CDATA[what's that saying? - a poor workman blames his tools...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amongus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 30th 2010 11:05PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
