A very timely post – which I missed when you first posted it – busy week!

The comment that stood out for me was Nancy Duarte’s comment that the Presentation Zen style (photo/bit of text) of presentation is fine for marketing or keynote presentations, but that there is a need for guidelines for the slides for technical presentations.

I’ve been thinking about this for the past 10 days or so.

I’ve been thinking about what you’re discussing here – visual thinking – especially around what I’ve been calling (in my head and in conversation) as data visualisation. Not surprised that someone’s done some of this thinking already!

Thanks for the list of resources for visual thinking and thanks for starting this whole debate off.

I think you might have started a trend towards something actually useful.

Good work! You’ve actually got the No PowerPoint guy to think about PowerPoint…

On Saturdays, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
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a plethora of PowerPoint opinions;
10 Commandments of Storytelling;
Will joining Toastmaster…

Thanks again to Olivia Mitchell for organizing the “PowerPoint Design in 2009″ event, which has sparked so much great discussion online. My favorite quote from the project so far is from Nancy Duarte:Large photos and sparse text are quickly being……