Good presentations, like good writing, are organized to make the main points clear and allow the reader/viewer/participant to follow the logic and come away with the intended message.  The problem with many presentations and for that matter, many emails and other documents is the failure to take the time to consider the main points that the audience needs to retain and prepare AND EDIT!! with that end as well as the composition of the audience in mind.  You can't tell 'em everything at once - you need to make choices.

In a former life as a computer systems analyst, we would often be confronted with a "core dump" which was essentially everything in the memory of the computer.  Some presentations I have attended and the slide mentioned in the article seem to be just like a core dump - a compendium of everything the author knows on a topic with the audience left to sort through to get to the main idea.  

Mary Hilliard, CRM
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