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Definition

The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.

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In Context

  • "Near-synonym: PowerPointlessness"
  • "2000, David Greenberg, Avoiding Death by PowerPoint, 45 Proven Strategies to Breathe Life Into Dull Presentations, Goldleaf Publications, →ISBN, illustrated."
  • "In corporations, death by overhead has been replaced by death by PowerPoint. Nothing has changed but the technology."
  • "We’ve all endured them ... PowerPoint presentations that drone on forever. I call this “Death by PowerPoint.” One of my near-death-by-PowerPoint experiences occurred in Newfoundland, Canada."
  • "And, as audience members, we have all experienced death by PowerPoint, the comatose state that results from being subjected to one stultifying slide after another."
  • "Where a 10-page presentation with one or two charts would have been acceptable before, now we all suffer from death by PowerPoint."
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Also Said As

  • PowerPointlessness
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See Also

  • PowerPoint ranger