Many years ago, I attended a conference for creative professionals organized by “How” Magazine. The keynote speaker got on stage in front of the 3,500 people and began with these words: “Powerpoint is sucking the life out of us all”. Within seconds, almost everyone in the auditorium was on their feet, applauding and cheering wildly. It was a moment of solidarity: the tedium of preparing presentations is something many people suffer from.
If you’re one of those people who dreads creating presentations (or even if you’re simply uninspired), I suggest you watch Al Gore or Steve Jobs in action. When Steve Jobs announced the highly anticipated iPad (can we talk about that name some time??) on January 27, 2010, he did so with a Keynote presentation (Keynote is the Mac equivalent of PowerPoint).
Steve Jobs introducing the iPad to the world
But did you feel you were watching a slideshow? Definitely not. Same thing with Al Gore’s film, “Inconvenient Truth”, which is basically two hours Al Gore talking through a really fancy Keynote presentation about climate change.
