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My take PowerPoint slides in private industry is that they are mostly analogous to what academics use poster presentations for. They are narrated to small audi
by andyferris 1y ago
My take PowerPoint slides in private industry is that they are mostly analogous to what academics use poster presentations for.
They are narrated to small audiences of 1-10 (maybe 20) people at a time, who might want some notes to read before or share around.
IMO like posters they make for terrible presentations to very large groups and I kept questioning the design and purpose, but it seems to work for certain situations.
- ghaff 1y agoI might raise the number a bit (though most of the audience will be tuned out anyway) but absolutely. "Here's our plan for the Kumquat initiative." There are some high level points and a bunch of supporting data and detail which many people these days are used to reading in presentation format. But I'd never give a presentation like that at a conference.
- andyferris 1y agoYes totally - internal presentations are like that. I meant external facing, “preparing a (slide) pack for a client” kind of deal.
- ghaff 1y agoClient deck is tricky. In my prior stint as an IT industry analyst, I think we usually prepared a report of some sort if we weren't presenting. On the other hand, the client might prefer essentially a slide deck for internal purposes. Probably ask them what they want.