Definition
The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.
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- "In corporations, death by overhead has been replaced by death by PowerPoint.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."
Also Said As
- PowerPointlessness
See Also
- PowerPoint ranger