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You Suck at Powerpoint Sucks

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Finally a slide deck for non-designers or graphic dummies.

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  • thinktank1987 Andeel Ali, District Project Manager at Youth Parliament of Pakistan Dear Butterslides, Is it just me or are you being pessimistic? Another thing that I came to know today is that, people in other countries also try to capitalize on others' successes! The only reason this presentation of yours got 16,000+ views is that people thought that @jessedee had posted an upgraded version of his own presentation! None of your other presentation has made any significant impact on the sllideshare community! Also regarding the learning part, there is enough content available on slideshare, wikipedia, TED and on thousand of other sites to learn from! Using just Autodidactism! Charisma can be generated, story telling can be learned and software can be mastered! 7 months ago
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  • Butterslides Butterslides at Butterslides Hi All Thanks again for the feedback and positive criticism. All of what you're saying makes a lot of sense. And, mea culpa, it seems that my story wasn't clear enough. For my decks, I use Photoshop, Illustrator, tools in all PPT suites (Windows and Mac) and definitely know what you can and can't do. I buy fonts, spend about a 1000€/month on iStock imagery and make about 3000 slides a year. And not in the way I've made this deck. :) It was a test for me too, coming from the insights that my customers provide me to create a deck in PPT itself. My customer challenged me to use only default fonts, use CC imagery, tools in PPT, etc. The result was this deck. Given SlideShare is a great forum to spread the word, and because I'm not afraid of putting my neck out, I chose Jesse's deck to use it as leverage. As far as my tone of voice goes in the deck: that's marketing. And I can't repeat it enough: I'm not playing the man, I'm playing the ball :) And one more thing: I'm a realist. Maybe it's harsh to claim that not everyone has to proper skills to pull of a presentation, but it's true. I can definitely say I can't develop the skills to write a song or touch people in the heart with a painting. So I focus on other things. :) And a last one to think about (or comment upon). It's an excerpt from a LinkedIn comment of me a couple of days ago: '(Presenting) Is not about rules, it's about telling what you think is important for yourself to your audience. It's not about design or function, it's about touching your audience. And by the way: in my perfect presentation world, every speaker would need a marker and a whiteboard to draw his or her's messages. Because when did everybody lose the ability to draw a circle, a word, a car, a tree, an arrow as we all did when we were kids? That is the essence of presenting. The presenter. Not the slides.' 9 months ago
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  • slidesthatrock Slides That Rock at Slides That Rock @Butterslides Yes, you have to buy the Neutraface font and you also have to buy the retro images. Similarly you have to leave PPT to look for images in Flickr or somewhere else. Our point was whether you can actually create this presentation in PPT/Keynote without additional editing tools, and we still believe you can as @ohmgrrl is also pointing out. In terms of (the lack of) charisma and storytelling skills, we have been blown away by what so called normal people can achieve in a couple of hours in our workshops. Show people how to structure a story around a topic they love, give them basic PPT design skills and their presentations have rocked. People with no apparent charisma have turned into inspiring story tellers. 9 months ago
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  • jessedee Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee at Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee Thank you, I'm flattered. 9 months ago
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  • ohmgrrl Chiara Ojeda, Educator at Full Sail University @Butterslides as a non-designer who does everything in Keynote (I am scared of Photoshop, though I am teaching myself), I know that one can do pretty much anything with a bit of ingenuity. The Mac version of PPT does allow us to erase the background from an image, though I find Keynote's instant alpha tool works pretty well, as long as the image is not too busy or full of shadows. While I commend your efforts and definitely appreciate meeting someone else who does everything inside of PPT or Keynote, I do think that shock value in this case works against you. JesseDee isn't saying be like me and if you can't, you suck; he is saying use the tool to its optimum by focusing on a few basic design ideas. I do like that you are saying, hey, not everyone has the tools to do this the way JesseDee does, but we can do amazing things with what we have. As someone who teacher public speaking though, I do take great issue with your claim that 'not everyone has charisma' and 'not everyone is a storyteller.' That is an inherently dangerous idea because it posits that only some of us will ever be great communicators. All of us are storytellers--it is a basic human trait, stories are what drive our everyday lives, how we construct meaning, and how we can inspire others and create resonance, as Nancy Duarte would say. Also, charisma is not some genetic quality that one either has or doesn't I teach my students to cultivate their natural qualities, passions, and energy for a subject. No, not everyone is Bill Clinton, but everyone can learn to cultivate the skills he has. A natural proclivity to charisma will get you nowhere if you are not audience-centered, prepared, or well-spoken. Nevertheless, I appreciate the support of us non-designers who design, but I have to say, perhaps focus less on combating what you see as slightly elitist and out of the normal person's reach, and focus more on showing us all how we can take the ideas Jesse Dee introduces and apply them using the tools we have. 9 months ago
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  • kategalloreilly Kate Reilly, Product Manager at E-Line Media @davidcrandall well said. 9 months ago
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  • davidcrandall David Crandall, Presentation Designer at Brand Super Power I think I see what you are saying: if you require special software (i.e. expensive and hard to learn software) to create a presentation, then it is not something the average person can do. And for the sake of marketing, I'm sure there was a bit of hyperbole. However, I would argue that 'average' people still have access to creating better presentations even if all they have is the internet and PowerPoint/Keynote. Most of my photography is from Flickr's Creative Commons (I've never paid a dime for stock imagery) and nearly all of my fonts are free downloads (I've paid for 1...that was $4.99). While I prefer InDesign, I've also used PowerPoint to create presentations with free fonts and images from the internet...presentations that have hit the front page of SlideShare. So, while there is a level that the average person cannot achieve with typical software, there is a huge delta between what they COULD achieve and what they DO achieve. For 2 years I followed ONLY Jesse until I stepped out and created my first presentation...which hit the front page. You never know who can do what but chances are, everyone CAN do better. :) 9 months ago
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  • Butterslides Butterslides at Butterslides @gwynethjones Hi Gwyneth. Thanks for the feedback. If you take a quick look at my website (www.butterslides.com), I hope I can show you I'm not the thief you think I am :). About the work in progress. You're right. But I don't have that much time to put it all in my Opus Magnus. 'Knocking down' is a bit harsh and definitely not my goal. Criticism is normal. As I think yours is. And again: Jesse is great. Nothing personal :) 9 months ago
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  • Butterslides Butterslides at Butterslides @slidesthatrock Hi peeps. No you can't. The font to name one is not a default font in PPT. Getting rid of the backrgounds on the pictures: not even if you use the soft edges. And again: that's not the point... And Jesse Rocks indeed. I think he'll know what I mean. 9 months ago
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  • slidesthatrock Slides That Rock at Slides That Rock Don't get your point. We are actually able to recreate Jesse Dee's master piece in either Powerpoint or Keynote (if we wanted to). We do not use Photoshop, InDesign or any of the other sexy tools you mention. Jesse Rocks! 9 months ago
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