Comments on: PowerPoint the Application vs. the Application of PowerPoint http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2009/04/08/powerpoint-the-application-vs-the-application-of-powerpoint/ Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gilligan on Data by Tim Wilson » PowerPoint / Presentations / Data Visualization http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2009/04/08/powerpoint-the-application-vs-the-application-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-18898 Gilligan on Data by Tim Wilson » PowerPoint / Presentations / Data Visualization Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:00:54 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=274#comment-18898 [...] wrote a post last week about PowerPoint and how easy it is to use it carelessly — to just open it up and start [...] [...] wrote a post last week about PowerPoint and how easy it is to use it carelessly — to just open it up and start [...]

]]> By: Bryan Cristina http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2009/04/08/powerpoint-the-application-vs-the-application-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-18468 Bryan Cristina Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:57:15 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=274#comment-18468 I use PowerPoint all the time - it's perfect for the people I'm presenting some of this high-level, graphically friendly, trended data. Mostly because IMO it's easier than formatting crap in Excel, I can print to PDF easily, and it's just clean and consistent on each page. It's not for everyone, and doing that BI linkage sounds silly, but to the "I just wanna know the high level month to month stuff" business partners, I think it's perfect. I use PowerPoint all the time – it’s perfect for the people I’m presenting some of this high-level, graphically friendly, trended data. Mostly because IMO it’s easier than formatting crap in Excel, I can print to PDF easily, and it’s just clean and consistent on each page.

It’s not for everyone, and doing that BI linkage sounds silly, but to the “I just wanna know the high level month to month stuff” business partners, I think it’s perfect.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2009/04/08/powerpoint-the-application-vs-the-application-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-18368 Andrew Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:56:15 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=274#comment-18368 Sometimes I resort to powerpoint as a documentation tool because it's so much easier to integrate pictures and text into powerpoint than Word. isn't it? But i agree that this is not why PPT was designed for. Sometimes I resort to powerpoint as a documentation tool because it’s so much easier to integrate pictures and text into powerpoint than Word. isn’t it?

But i agree that this is not why PPT was designed for.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2009/04/08/powerpoint-the-application-vs-the-application-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-18361 Jon Peltier Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:05:27 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=274#comment-18361 The problem with slidumentaries is not their particular purpose, but their usage. I've been successful using PowerPoint as a static reporting tool, where the slides contain the information to be documented and archived. I've never used these same slides for presentation purposes, but I've often extracted objects from the archival Ppt files to insert into presentations. The problem is when people don't clearly think out the difference between archival and presentation slide decks, and use the first as if they are effective for the second purpose. The problem with slidumentaries is not their particular purpose, but their usage.

I’ve been successful using PowerPoint as a static reporting tool, where the slides contain the information to be documented and archived. I’ve never used these same slides for presentation purposes, but I’ve often extracted objects from the archival Ppt files to insert into presentations.

The problem is when people don’t clearly think out the difference between archival and presentation slide decks, and use the first as if they are effective for the second purpose.

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