In a recent post, Guy Kawaski talked about 10 Things Students (and the rest of us) should learn this school year. One of his points was this:

11. How to use PowerPoint. I’ve seen the PowerPoint slides of professors—it’s no wonder that most people can’t use PowerPoint to sell hybrid cars when gas is $10/gallon. Maybe professors are thinking: “This is a one-hour class, I can cover one slide per minute, so I need sixty slides. Oh, and I’ve written all this text already in my textbook, so I’ll just copy and paste my twelve-point manuscript into the presentation.” Perhaps the tenure system causes this kind of problem. In the real world, this is no tenure so you need to limit yourself to ten slides, twenty minutes, and a thirty-point font—assuming that you want to get what you want.

Now I read this as I was putting together an MTV-esque PowerPoint for a presentation I am giving in Santa Barbara – and the PowerPoint was going to have a lot more than 10 slides…a lot more. So, with the power of blog comments on my side, I asked Guy (yes we are on a first name basis) if I should cut slides or keep with my original super-slide idea. His answer was to stick with the very slidey version, but to watch this Identity 2.0 presentation by Dick Hardt (no snickering) for inspiration.

Guy knows his stuff…the presentation is killer!