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    Pecha-Kucha Cuts Short Interminable PowerPoint Presentations

    By Richard Nantel | August 21, 2007

    PowerPoint IconWired magazine this month features a story about how PowerPoint, that ubiquitous business and training tool, is being used to produce events that are a cross between competitive sport and a new art form.

    Pecha-kucha, Japanese for “the sound of casual chatter,” was developed by a couple of British architects, Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein. The rules are simple:

    • Each pecha-kucha participant delivers a PowerPoint presentation.
    • Each presentation must comprise of 20 slides, no more, no less.
    • Each slide must be displayed for exactly 20 seconds.
    • Consequently, each presentation is exactly six minutes and 40 seconds long.

    I believe the designers of pecha-kucha should be awarded the Nobel prize in economics. If this spills into the business world, global productivity will skyrocket as death-by-PowerPoint meetings are cut short.

    In training, pecha-kucha may help keep learners focused. “Missed the slide on how to land the plane? I guess you shouldn’t have glanced at your Blackberry, bud.”

    Pecha-kucha is catching on. Events are springing up in many cities. You can find out more about pecha-kucha here.

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    Topics: Humor, Learning, PowerPoint |

    One Response to “Pecha-Kucha Cuts Short Interminable PowerPoint Presentations”

    1. Mike Caulfield » Blog Archive » Announcing the Learning 2.0 Pecha Kucha Contest Says:
      August 28th, 2007 at 8:43 am

      […] It’s the solution to Death by Powerpoint. Here’s the rules: […]

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