tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7765- 2007-12-03T11:50:21Z Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7765.3264 hoffmore Interesting. In my experience, most presentations (e.g. PowerPoint) linger on an idea for less than 6 seconds before rushing on to the next bulleted item. Speakers are commonly a bit nervous in front of a crowd and will avoid silences as much as possible. This hurriedness hampers personal understanding as well as group consensus and feedback (if there are sufficient pauses, people [including the speaker] can get a feel for how the ideas are being accepted by those around them). If there is a lack of understanding during a presentation, it can snowball as each sucessive idea is built upon the preceding, misunderstood, ideas... Besides, no one remembers 50 bulleted items - better to focus on 8 and make those more memorable. ...but it is about the message and not the technology of presentation... the technology CAN get in the way (e.g. silly animations that distract rather than illustrate or inform).

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