{"id":76,"date":"2007-05-26T13:19:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T12:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2007\/05\/26\/yet-another-powerpoint-gadget\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T12:19:56","slug":"yet-another-powerpoint-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/yet-another-powerpoint-gadget\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another powerpoint gadget&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMG.\u00c2\u00a0 With the best will in the world, I can&#8217;t see <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"powerpoint talking gadget\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voxproxy.com\/\">this<\/a> as an <em>overall<\/em> good thing. <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk\/forums\/images\/smilies\/cool.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At it&#8217;s best, PowerPoint is a fair-to-middling tool, woefully often mis-used, and giving people more gadgets is going to result in more really, really bad presentations.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s not to say there <strong>aren&#8217;t<\/strong> positive uses too, just that my experience I&#8217;d risk a bet that more often than not it all ends in tears&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no&#8230; wait&#8230;.. that&#8217;ll be more work for me as a presentations trainer! Ah, I take it back&#8230;. it&#8217;s a good thing!\u00c2\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk\/forums\/images\/smilies\/biggrin.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More\u00c2\u00a0 seriously, if you&#8217;re tempted to get into this kind of gadget\/gimmick add-ons to your PowerPoints, remember to ask yourself if you really, really need it.\u00c2\u00a0 If not, it&#8217;s just a vanity on your part and a distraction on the audience&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, you still need to have a really good recording voice to get things worth listening to&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG.\u00c2\u00a0 With the best will in the world, I can&#8217;t see this as an overall good thing. At it&#8217;s best, PowerPoint is a fair-to-middling tool, woefully often mis-used, and giving people more gadgets is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powerpoint-and-other-packages","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}