{"id":9533,"date":"2011-05-27T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:51:07","slug":"powerpoint-its-not-presentation-software-its-visual-assault-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/powerpoint-its-not-presentation-software-its-visual-assault-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerpoint: it’s not presentation software, it’s visual assault software"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve attended lots of meetings where the Powerpoint slides have been really bad, but I’m happy not to have encountered anything quite as bad as this:<\/p>\n

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One of this year’s winners in the InFocus Worst Powerpoint Slide Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Our “What Not to Present” contest was epic! Many thanks to all of you kind folks that submitted entries and spread the word about it. Many amazingly horrendous slides were sent in from all around the world. We laughed. We cried. We cringed.<\/p>\n

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We randomly chose our top 3 winners, but then quickly realized that we had to do more. So we are giving away ANOTHER projector to the slide we thought was the most horrendous. We passed the ugliness around the InFocus offices and to many of our partners pandering for votes — and we have a winner!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update<\/b>: While I’m busy poking fun at PowerPoint, here’s the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation<\/a>. H\/T to Paul “Inkless” Wells<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve attended lots of meetings where the Powerpoint slides have been really bad, but I’m happy not to have encountered anything quite as bad as this: One of this year’s winners in the InFocus Worst Powerpoint Slide Contest. Our “What Not to Present” contest was epic! Many thanks to all of you kind folks that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[102,156,552,92],"class_list":["post-9533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-art","tag-fail","tag-powerpoint","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2tL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}