I am bored with powerpoint!

I am bored with sales presentations!

I am bored with slide-shows!

Just because you can make a powerpoint presentation with a thousand slides doesn't mean you should. If you can't say what you need to say in a few slides don't say it.

The chances of me staying awake and catching the important points of your presentation whilst you bore me with every miniscule aspect of your company/product are almost non-existant.

If you can't convince me to have an interest in your product/company in the time it takes me to fall asleep then you have no chance.

Pecha Kucha is the way forward.

With Pecha Kucha, Japanese for chatter, presentations can consist of a maximum of 20 slides each lasting no more that 20 seconds. That's a total of no more than 6 minutes and 40 seconds for a presentation.

This ensures that a presentation is concise and not full of unnecessary fluff.

The audience interest level is maintained, no more sleeping through presentations, and gives more people the opportunity to present.

If you want to see Pecha Kucha in action come along to CMSExpo in Denver where all new product launches will be strictly Pecha Kucha.

My nephew came home from school on friday and asked what was a geek. I tried to explain to him that there were many types of geeks. Some of which I would be happy to be associated with, others I'd run a mile from.

Trying to illustrate my point to him I googled and stumbled across the amazing work of Scott Johnson, creator and artist for ExtraLife.

As a skilled artists and cartoonist he has identified 56 different types of geeks and created a poster of them all. You can even commision him to create a new geek type just for you.

What type of geek are you? Or what geek-type did Scott miss.