Presentation Zen: No excuse for boring an audience: Advice on giving technical presentations:
Long before “death-by-powerpoint” or vertigo-by-prezi, there were bad presentations. Really bad presentations. So don’t blame the software. The genesis of painfully dull or muddled presentations predates the computer. No one knows this better than scientists, researchers, and academics, who have long been required to attend numerous conferences each year, conferences which typically feature a keynote speaker and scores of shorter presentations by others in their field.
At least I rarely see bullet lists…