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Should you stop suing your customers?
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Effective PowerPoint Presentation: Death Star Attack
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009We’ve been discussing what constitutes an effective (or less-effective) MS PowerPoint presentation in a course I am taking this quarter at the MCDM, Evolutions and Trends in Digital Media Technologies, taught by Kathy Gill. We were asked to provide examples of poorly designed presentations for tonight’s class, and I did find a few; the web is rife with them. However, for this blog entry I have decided to share an example of what I think constitutes an unusually effective presentation. Rebel fighters convening at a secret location on a moon orbiting the planet Yavin located in a galaxy far, far away, were given a PPT presentation on how to effectively destroy an interstellar weapon of mass destruction known as the “Death Star”. The presentation, based on plans provided by rebel intelligence, details how to use conventional starfighter weaponry to destroy this WMD. I feel that the presentation delineates the plan of attack in a clear and concise manner, while managing to pepper in some humor to keep the audience interested. If I were to have designed the presentation I would have skipped using the basic red bullet points, but all told, I feel the presentation works effectively. User AskAak at the social sharing and content commodification site YTMND.com captured the event. Follow this link to see his report.
Debtris, Raids, and the Social Media Movie Studio
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
One of my favorite sites is YTMND.com. YTMND isn’t news to a lot of people on the intarwebs, but its relevance as a social media tool remains viable. Its hordes of users constantly submit loads of new content, plenty of which contains sharp insights into a plethora of cultural, political, and social matters – but mostly it’s just there for the lolz. The submitters at YTMND could pump out enough fresh memes, or at least recycle oldies-but-goodies frequently enough, to sustain the internet underbelly all by their collective selves. It’s a machine. In 2006, Frank Ahrens at the Washington Post wrote up a more thorough examination for the uninitiated as to just what the site is all about. He actually labeled the site’s central conceit, more or less, “a new art form”. I guess for myself I’ll just call YTMND a backwater meme manufacturing center; you’ll certainly find it firmly planted as another island in the internet subculture on XKCD’s “Sea of Memes” map. (more…)
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