Ah, PowerPoint – love it or hate it, PowerPoint, and apps like it, are here to stay.

We’ve all seen brilliant presentations but more often than not we’re recoiling as the first slide pops up on screen… that moment when you realize you’re in for a long trudge through bullet point hell. You know the slides – a dozen (or two) bullet points, a garish assortment of fonts (sized either far too big or much too small) with some cheesy clip-art inserted for good measure.

Is PowerPoint just inherently flawed? Does it make it too easy to be bad? How do those moments of brilliance emerge from the same tool that generates countless slides of unwatchable content every day?

Share Your Opinion

We’d love to hear your thoughts on PowerPoint – more specifically we’d be interested in hearing your answer to the following question:

PowerPoint: A powerful tool poorly used or a poor tool overused?

No need to write an essay, 300 words or less is great. Imagery is encouraged – you could even consider making a short Powerpoint presentation and putting it up on something like SlideShare. Add your response to the comments below, or if you have your own blog, add your response there and place a permalink to your post in the comments below.

VizThink Webinar Series

At the end of the month we’ll be continuing our VizThink webinar series with a conversation about PowerPoint (& electronic presentations in general) featuring presentation design experts. Your responses will be a key part of the discussion during the webinar.

Win a Copy of “Beyond Bullet Points”

To thank everyone for their thoughts and posts we’re offering up a copy of Cliff Atkinson’s “Beyond Bullet Points” to the post that our webinar panel chooses as their favorite.

To be eligible posts must be up by midnight May 25th June 12th, 2008 and tagged “VizThinkPPT”. We’ll be sure to review every post that we see (through trackbacks, comments and a Google Blog search monitor). The winner will be announced during the webinar later this month (will be announced via the blog)

Thanks in advance, we look forward to reading all your thoughts and insights!

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