Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Use of visual aids in business meetings

[Matt Lawrence (matt]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Mariana Almeida wrote:

> Projector/computer/PowerPoint This would be my preferred method, but 
> there is resistance to it. The resistance to it is related to it being 
> too "business"y, too advanced technologically and "would make me feel 
> left out because I'll never learn to use it". Do you use it? What makes 
> it work?

Well, cohousing development is a multi-million dollar business, and that's 
just for one instance.

Having had to sit through a lot a really painful presentations, I want to 
strongly recommend learning how to use a project effectively.  Black text 
on a white background tends to cause a lot of eyestrain over a prolonged 
period.  Lower contrast colors that look fine on a computer screen are 
illegible on a projected image.  There are a lot of other things that I've 
heard about as well that I don't remember.  The knowledge of how to do 
this effectively is certainly out on the web, you just have to take time 
to locate it.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.