9 Hard Truths About Your PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint is a tool. And like any other tool, it can be used for good, or it can be used for evil. For example, if you spend two hours doing little more than talking from your prepared slides, that's evil. (Cruel, too.)

So says Meeting Boy, the anonymous Dilbert-for-the-Twitter-age who tweets scathingly about his boss, his co-workers, and office life in general. In I Hate PowerPoint, he looks at nine ways PowerPoint presenters abuse their favorite tool. It's amusing (and, ironically, a slide deck), but if you read past the potshots, you'll find some good suggestions for making your own presentations less, well, evil.

Take a look, then meet me below to learn more about using PowerPoint for good.

(My own added two cents: If you give people the presentation in advance, they'll no doubt flip through the whole thing while you're still on slide 1. Then you've really lost them.)

Suffice it to say, here at Business Hacks we're all about helping you improve your presentations. Look below for even more handy tips!

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