The Truth. God and Tufte hate your ugly Charts.

März 22nd, 2010 • Allgemein
Tags: Diagram, Funny, kittens, Philosophy, Powerpoint, Truth, visualization, World

Twenty years after the invention of Powerpoint and two weeks after Edward Tufte has been appointed to become Obama’s Presidential advisor there is only one thing left to say…and I hope you remember it before you merge Comic Sans Headlines and Smart Art next time. Understand it as a warning.

Thanks to Mark Goetz for the idea. I found the link via Flowing Data.

Twitter. Finally embeddable in Powerpoint.

Oktober 8th, 2009 • 2 comments Allgemein
Tags: Business, Cool, Ideas, New, Powerpoint, Presentation, Tools, Twitter, visual, We like

High five, SAP.

The software company has just published three Flash objects (Beta) which allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. In my case it did work on a PC, but didn’t get it running on a Mac, instantly. But it’s Beta, Baby.

The idea is definitely cool and I am curious how this affects presenting. I am sure it’ll get out of Beta status soon. Download the free software here.

And don’t forget to comment on how you’ll use this slick little plugin.

(via Frog-Blog)