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Art, with some elements of Science
Five Under-Emphasized PowerPoint Best Practices

By ⋅ May 8, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Catching up on old links that I wanted to comment on – here is a selection regarding some PowerPoint best practices, including five of my personal favorites that I don’t often see in those ubiquitous articles / postings detailing the Secrets of Presentation Success … Under-Emphasized PowerPoint Best Practices Never Embed Objects: I grew to [...]

Art, with some elements of Science
Project Status Dashboards Best Practice (and a PowerPoint trick)

By ⋅ May 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

For a simple, easily understood indication of project or task status, nothing beats the Traffic Light metaphor (Red / Yellow / Green). My IT organization is putting together standards for Project Status indicators in our PMO application; an interesting series of discussions and emails around the assignment of those Green / Yellow / Red (GYR) [...]

Inspiration, with some elements of Art
Shift Happens

By ⋅ April 20, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

via MeFi, some thought-provoking fun with numbers and facts. Maybe a bit heavy, but what the heck, it’s Friday.

Art, with some elements of Inspiration
Lighten Up, Francis – Loosen Up That PowerPoint

By ⋅ April 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Ok, the next post will be my Best Practice hints on everybody’s favorite insomnia cure – Corporate Presentations! But first, something fun – because I got a really good reaction on my latest attempt at lightening up the boring PowerPoint routine. In the presentation, this was my segue slide from slides to a live demonstration [...]

Execution, with some elements of Art
A Short Collection of Random Links

By ⋅ December 19, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s the end of the fiscal year, and that brings project deadlines, holidays and vacations, performance reviews, and all sorts of tasks that fill up the days, evenings, and weekends. I am remiss in posting for a bit, so I’ll pick off a few items that I’ve been saving in my blogroll … Don’t Worry, [...]

Art, with some elements of Science
Build a Framework: Your chart junk is my roadmap / vision statement

By ⋅ December 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I remember in the late 90′s, seeing many examples of the little train of wedgies that folks used to characterize their business processes: I’ve used them myself (some of the above samples are mine, I’m comfortable in admitting it) – of course, I typically don’t make this stuff up, I adapt from other examples, like [...]

Art
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Powerpoint

By ⋅ October 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Author’s Note: This is by far the most popular post on my weblog – I’ve even been cited in Wikipedia! I appreciate all the traffic, and invite you to check out my other posts on presentations – including … Five Under-Emphasized PowerPoint Best Practices Project Status Dashboards Best Practice (and a PowerPoint trick) Lighten Up, [...]

Art
Current Writings on Presenting Complex Information Visually

By ⋅ July 10, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

It was during a slow point at work a few years ago, while we were in the process of being acquired, that I had the opportunity to get some training / attend some seminars, and I went to a presentation / lecture by Edward Tufte regarding the visual presentation of data – boy, was I [...]

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