PowerPoint & Business: A Special Relationship
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POWERPOINT & INTERESTING NOTES ON A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP PowerPoint was introduced as a business graphics package for managers, professionals and sales people. You probably use it regularly, but do you really know the product? Here, we illustrate some interesting facts and figures about PowerPoint; how it came to be and what is has become… BUSINES S Sources: BBC News, Microsoft, RobertGaskins.com
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PowerPoint shares a special relationship with business. If you have been in any way involved in business during the last 25 years, chances are you will have sat through more than your fair share of PowerPoint presentations. Perhaps you have delivered more than a few, too. How well do you know the product? We have produced a slide deck detailing the special relationship PowerPoint shares with business, focusing primarily on how it came to be and what it has become...
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POWERPOINT &
INTERESTING NOTES ON A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
PowerPoint was introduced as a business graphics package for managers, professionals and sales people. You probably use it regularly, but do you really know the product? Here, we illustrate some interesting facts and figures about
PowerPoint; how it came to be and what is has become…
BUSINESS
Sources: BBC News, Microsoft, RobertGaskins.com
BRAINCHILD
POWERPOINT
WAS CREATED BY
ROBERT
GASKINS
DENNIS
AUSTIN
It was originally called Presentation but changed to PowerPoint in 1987 because of a
trademark issue
FIRST
1992THE FIRST PUBLIC LAPTOP PRESENTATION
WAS DELIVERED TO MICROSOFT EMPLOYEES (In Paris)
LEADER
1993
IN PC PRESENTATION
PROGRAMMES
BY
POWERPOINT WAS THE
MARKET LEADER
MARKET SHARE
95%
20 years later, PowerPoint continues to
dominate with an estimated
95% share of the presentation
software market
DID YOU KNOW?
In the first instance, PowerPoint was developed
for Mac when Gaskins & Austin worked for
Forethought.
Microsoft bought Forethought in 1987 for $14
million
Apple then waited until 2003 before releasing Keynote
HOW MANY?
500THERE ARE
MILLION
WORLDWIDE
POWERPOINT USERS
DAILY
BUSINESSES GLOBALLY MAKE
POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS PER DAY
LLON
30M
WORDY
The average PowerPoint slide contains 40 words (There are 39 on the featured slide)
CRITICISMS INCLUDE
THE PRESENTATIO
N
RATHER THAN THE
AUDIENCE
IS OFTEN THE
FOCUS
Too many presenters use slides as speakers notes, relying on bullet-points as a prompt
13,100,000SEARCH RESULTS GENERATED FOR
‘DEATH BY POWERPOINT’(IN 0.33 SECONDS)
But, used properly, PowerPoint can be the impressive graphic sales tool that it was always intended to be…
… this SlideShare, for example, was made using PowerPoint
…ZZZ
To learn more about effective business communication with PowerPoint, visit:
www.activepresence.com/powerpoint-presentations/
