On Powerpoint

[davidbfpo]

charlyjsp,

Are the Finnish articles the same as those JMM found a week ago?

Sellin has written a number of pieces for UPI - note the Helsinki and Finland byline on many of them.

Link:http://www.upi.com/search/?sp=t&s_l=...n%22&s_term=ea

[Scott Shaw]

I just finished our ppt based training meeting that is backed by both written training schedules and a written OSINTSUM. Our S2 shop does it every week to support what they brief @ the training meeting and I have to agree with Niel, it keeps them sharp - and lets the PLs get something from a meeting that is more than a graphic without discussion.

Scott

[jmm99]

From the Finnish post, 15 minuuttia valokeilassa, 31.8.2010 Kirjoittaja: Eversti_L [we'd say "15 mins of fame" - valokeilassa = lit. "in the spotlight"; Kirjoittaja = author; Eversti_L = Colonel L.; end Finglish exercise], this comment:

M.R. says:
2.9.2010 klo 15:51
We brief our lives away… The real significance of the everlasting row of all the meaningless PP presentations is to deter us from seeing what is really happening around us. If not forced to attend to constant meetings strengthening the collective values of the company, we might start questioning too many things. This is one of the definitives of our era, the plague that transforms employees into soldiers for their companies, and soldiers into company-workers having a false sense of influence in their company’s politics.

Too many extreme Managerial types (i.e., as described in Brian Linn's Echo of Battle) in both the corporate and military worlds ?

Regards

Mike

[charlyjsp]

charlyjsp,

Are the Finnish articles the same as those JMM found a week ago?

Link:http://www.upi.com/search/?sp=t&s_l=...n%22&s_term=ea

I looked over the UPI articles and the blog posts. There is overlap, but there seems to be unique material on both sites - makes sense, especially the posts where Col. Sellin is responding to Finnish readers' questions or more directly addressing Finns.

-Charly

[AdamG]

Now, though, you can create basic PowerPoint presentations on iPhones, Androids and BlackBerrys, as long as you have Documents To Go Premium ($17 on Apple and $15 on BlackBerry; on Android the “Full Version” is $15). Building PowerPoint documents from start to finish had been the last frontier for mobile users of Microsoft Office files, who previously could create and edit only Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on the iPhone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/t...ref=technology

[Rogue16]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011...by-powerpoint/ - Check out one former soldier who is trying to help make PPT better.

[Jedburgh]

Danger Room, 22 Jul 11: Army Command Conducts Entire Briefing – In Comic Sans

You’ve got to nail that briefing for your boss. What better way to get that presentation to pop than to make your points in comic sans, the merry court jester of type faces? If this sounds like a good idea, there’s a senior-level Army position waiting for you.

Somehow, an aide to Gen. Ann Dunwoody, leader of the Army’s Materiel Command, prepared a staggering 100-slide PowerPoint entirely in comic sans....

[bourbon]

The Information Sage: Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data, by Joshua Yaffa. The Washington Monthly, May/June 2011.

Edward Tufte occupies a revered and solitary place in the world of graphic design. Over the last three decades, he has become a kind of oracle in the growing field of data visualization—the practice of taking the sprawling, messy universe of information that makes up the quantitative backbone of everyday life and turning it into an understandable story. His four books on the subject have sold almost two million copies, and in his crusade against euphemism and gloss, he casts a shadow over the world of graphs and charts similar to the specter of George Orwell over essay and argument.

Tufte is a philosopher king who reigns over his field largely because he invented it. For years, graphic designers were regarded as decorators, whose primary job was to dress up facts with pretty pictures. Tufte introduced a reverence for math and science to the discipline and, in turn, codified the rules that would create a new one, which has come to be called, alternatively, information design or analytical design. His is often the authoritative word on what makes a good chart or graph, and over the years his influence has changed the way places like the Wall Street Journal and NASA display data.

[kazuko.parsons]

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/t...ref=technology

Nice article, i enjoyed reading it