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TC 510 Course Website David Farkas has an amazing collection of web-based articles supplementing his course that would […]

TC 510 Course Website David Farkas has an amazing collection of web-based articles supplementing his course that would make fine reading over the holidays– the breadth and diversity of the reading would help round out any IA or ID thinking.

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    John

    You bumped into something that’s been on my mind here. I guess this will be an entry for my journal too!

    The powerpoint stuff was particularly interesting since I have to lead a lot of review meetings which are in the gray area between reviews and presentations. I haven’t yet found a solution to the fight between Word and Powerpoint for these meetings. Powerpoint leads to people giving poor comments and not fully understanding the points, especially since people don’t expect to read it in advance. In contrast, sharing a Word document (on the projector, via netmeeting, etc.) and annotating it with comments, or amending it, during the meeting is an excellent collaborative way to work. People also expect to turn up at document reviews having read the thing, or even supplied comments, in advance (advance comments can be inserted as changed and reviewed or answered in the meeting). People feel involved in the review and it’s easy to get formal sign-off after such a meeting – plus it gets buy-in for nasty decisions such as items left for the future since that can be decided at the meeting and annotated specifically in the document. People’s views are heard and acknowledged visibly on the projector. Egos are carefully handled.

    But still Word is an imperfect tool for this kind of exercise. Everyone needs paper copies to get the context, and I’d like to have the visual tools powerpoint provides – but give it the more collaborative atmosphere that Word offers and get the same genuine review. Really I guess I’d like to have presentation data associated with a document rather than having the two separated (powerpoint’s speaker notes are naff, easily missed, unformattable, generally lost).

    I’d love a solution to this. A few very key documents I have exist in both versions and updating them is a pain. I need a bridge.

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    Tony

    I’d guess (hope?) that in a two or three version cycles of PowerPoint, you could click on Notes view and pull up a full Word window below the slide. Or add a chart to a slide by invoking not the MS Chart utility but full Excel. Wasn’t this the goal of OLE? (ahem, Microsoft…)

    Interestingly enough, John, your situation sounds a bit like the story related in one of the readings cited above — a historical description of the primordial ooze that begat the writing, reviewing and storyboarding of defense contractor proposals. See esp. the graphics in this 8-page PDF. (For a PPT designer like me, it’s like seeing evidence of the Big Bang.)

    Starkey, Walter S., “The Beginnings of STOP Storyboarding and the Modular Proposal,” Proposal Management (Association of Proposal Management Professionals), Fall 2000, 41-48.
    http://www.apmp.org/pdf/41-48.storyboardinghistory.pdf

    Christine: thanks for unearthing this list. Good stuff.

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