Ooh, pretty!

[legalmoose]

I am now convinced that half of making an effective pitch here is using pretty colors.

Spent several hours, on and off, the past couple of weeks working on a fool-proof way (though nothing is impossible for a talented fool) to get information from our field offices in a format that would, heaven forfend, actually be useful. The end result is a big, complicated, multi-layered, color-coded spreadsheet.

Everyone loves the colors.

Never mind all of the very cleverly nested if statements that make everything work, they just love that it's in more than black and white.

For my next presentation, I am going to be all over that color printer, I swear.

Comments

[littlecrazycub.livejournal.com]

lol, yes, the key to a good presentation is in the PRESENTATION. =o)

I concur though. Eye candy always wins over content. I mean, hell, how else could half of the movies out there make as much money as they do?

[eyow.livejournal.com]

Also, monkeys. Because everything's funny if there's a monkey. :)

One of Ray's all-hands meetings had a PowerPoint, and one of the slides was a picture of a monkey, and whoever was conducting the meeting actually said that. Heh.