{"id":831,"date":"2007-02-01T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_end_of_powe\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:29:26","slug":"the_end_of_powe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_end_of_powe\/","title":{"rendered":"Points on Power Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What comes to your mind when you know you&#8217;re attending an event (conference, team meeting or presentation) where Power Point will be used?&nbsp; For me, boredom and malaise are way up there.&nbsp; That&#8217;s because everyone is just doing what they&#8217;ve always done with the visual thing.&nbsp; Can&#8217;t we do something different?&nbsp; Something that speaks to where we&#8217;re at.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Steve Hopkins, who is the director of training for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scbo.org\/\">SCBO<\/a>, uses Power Point, but he also uses cinema.&nbsp; You might see a clip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch_fullscreen?video_id=JvJ_5a6GHnE&amp;l=68&amp;t=OEgsToPDskI5Z7wlT-nwmqLOxvmOcB4A&amp;fs=1&amp;title=O Brother Where Art Thou? Trailer with George Clooney\">O Brother Where Art Thou?<\/a> or something that changes your mood and wakes up your senses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/\">Seth Godin<\/a> gives some wonderful insights on a <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2007\/01\/really_bad_powe.html\">really bad power point<\/a>.&nbsp; Judging by his comments I&#8217;m not alone in my thoughts.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Understand, I&#8217;m not calling for the end of Power Point.&nbsp; Things change though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What comes to your mind when you know you&#8217;re attending an event (conference, team meeting or presentation) where Power Point will be used?&nbsp; For me, boredom and malaise are way up there.&nbsp; That&#8217;s because everyone is just doing what they&#8217;ve always done with the visual thing.&nbsp; Can&#8217;t we do something different?&nbsp; Something that speaks to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}