http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/rule-of-thirds-for-powerpoint/ and I mean it Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/rule-of-thirds-for-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-7183 Rule of Thirds for PowerPoint ~ Lockergnome’s Doing It Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:13:39 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/rule-of-thirds-for-powerpoint/#comment-7183 [...] PowerPoint gets the bad reputation as being the evil piece of Microsoft Office designed to create disinterest and loathing of all public presentations. That’s mostly because people simply use it incorrectly. Instead of complementing a presentation, people have a bad habit of using slides as notes they read to an audience, which translates to boring. Presentation Zen offers an interesting perspective on applying photography’s rule of thirds to PowerPoint slides by analyizing a number of promotional videos and looking at what makes them interesting. Peter over a blog.forret.com adds to the discussion with his own example, rightly pointing out that the stock layouts in PowerPoint make achieving rule of thirds in PowerPoint nearly impossible without making your own slides. [...] [...] PowerPoint gets the bad reputation as being the evil piece of Microsoft Office designed to create disinterest and loathing of all public presentations. That’s mostly because people simply use it incorrectly. Instead of complementing a presentation, people have a bad habit of using slides as notes they read to an audience, which translates to boring. Presentation Zen offers an interesting perspective on applying photography’s rule of thirds to PowerPoint slides by analyizing a number of promotional videos and looking at what makes them interesting. Peter over a blog.forret.com adds to the discussion with his own example, rightly pointing out that the stock layouts in PowerPoint make achieving rule of thirds in PowerPoint nearly impossible without making your own slides. [...]

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