Monday, April 04, 2005
What's Your "First PowerPoint" Story?
Who can remember the first presentation they ever gave in PowerPoint? I'd love to hear it: and you can share it with others by hitting the "Comments" button below and posting it....
My first PowerPoint... was in the early 1990's. As a leader of a corporate IT user group, I was charged with giving the team's recommendations to the executive staff.
I had already created my objectives, story line, and budget. And I planned my presentation as a traditional whiteboard talk. However, the user group members insisted that I use PowerPoint to underscore the growing importance of technology to the company. So, I quickly learned PowerPoint, and developed my first presentation.
My first PowerPoint presentation had a yellow background. It had few words, was mostly pictures and headlines, with a "dissolve" transition between each slide. I gave it on a computer, as the executive staff circled around us, amazed by the potential to use this whiz-bang new technology to tell a convincing story.
I remember a lot of "oooooh's and aaaah's", followed up by "Neat. How'd you do that? Can we do that for sales? How about training?"
So of course the executive staff approved our proposal. And PowerPoint became the defacto presentation software standard all over the globe.
Now, where were you when you created your first PowerPoint? ¶ 4/04/2005 11:04:00 AM
Who can remember the first presentation they ever gave in PowerPoint? I'd love to hear it: and you can share it with others by hitting the "Comments" button below and posting it....
My first PowerPoint... was in the early 1990's. As a leader of a corporate IT user group, I was charged with giving the team's recommendations to the executive staff.
I had already created my objectives, story line, and budget. And I planned my presentation as a traditional whiteboard talk. However, the user group members insisted that I use PowerPoint to underscore the growing importance of technology to the company. So, I quickly learned PowerPoint, and developed my first presentation.
My first PowerPoint presentation had a yellow background. It had few words, was mostly pictures and headlines, with a "dissolve" transition between each slide. I gave it on a computer, as the executive staff circled around us, amazed by the potential to use this whiz-bang new technology to tell a convincing story.
I remember a lot of "oooooh's and aaaah's", followed up by "Neat. How'd you do that? Can we do that for sales? How about training?"
So of course the executive staff approved our proposal. And PowerPoint became the defacto presentation software standard all over the globe.
Now, where were you when you created your first PowerPoint? ¶ 4/04/2005 11:04:00 AM
