This seems like an opportune moment to suggest technical presenters take a look at Prof. Shewchuk's missive: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html

This seems like an opportune moment to suggest technical presenters take a look at Prof. Shewchuk's missive: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html I'm in no way affiliated with him, just found his rant online. I think his points apply to a lot of technical presentations (though certainly not all). Another helpful resource is "The Craft of Scientific Presentations": http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Scientific-Presentations-Critical-Succeed/dp/1441982787/ http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Scientific-Presentations-Critica... The bottom line is that the tool itself is probably less relevant than we think it is, though I agree with Tufte that text-intensive Powerpoint is great way to do your critical points grave disservice.