Comments on: Cliché of the Week: The Parthenon (and contest results) http://blog.duarte.com/2008/10/cliche-of-the-week-the-parthenon-and-contest-results/ Duarte Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:27:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Scott McArthur http://blog.duarte.com/2008/10/cliche-of-the-week-the-parthenon-and-contest-results/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Scott McArthur Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:54:35 +0000 http://slideology.com/?p=803#comment-340 Creating a visual dialogue/ metaphor is a challenge for most of us PowerPoint junkies and I have found that referance to the professionals often does the trick. Get hold of a designer and or a strategic artist and use their skills to help you create a no cheese picture! Creating a visual dialogue/ metaphor is a challenge for most of us PowerPoint junkies and I have found that referance to the professionals often does the trick. Get hold of a designer and or a strategic artist and use their skills to help you create a no cheese picture!

]]> By: Gary Smith http://blog.duarte.com/2008/10/cliche-of-the-week-the-parthenon-and-contest-results/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Gary Smith Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:43:35 +0000 http://slideology.com/?p=803#comment-339 I never thought about how damn cliche that Parthenon is until now. I have seen many people use this over and over and over again...and I must say...it has never been inspiring. Maybe it reminds me too much of 7th grade world history assignments. Here's a much more interesting metaphor I saw lately...the oil rig. Okay it's not too popular with the green crowd...but it sure does raise a nice emotional reaction...which a good metaphor should do...to break the audience out of their zombie states. The oil rig has pillars that go down into the sea like hundreds of feet...and also has a nice payoff...like millions of dollars of oil. So I like this metaphor more because it's original and it has an emotional tie in to money...which drives every company at the visceral level. I never thought about how damn cliche that Parthenon is until now. I have seen many people use this over and over and over again…and I must say…it has never been inspiring.

Maybe it reminds me too much of 7th grade world history assignments.

Here’s a much more interesting metaphor I saw lately…the oil rig. Okay it’s not too popular with the green crowd…but it sure does raise a nice emotional reaction…which a good metaphor should do…to break the audience out of their zombie states.

The oil rig has pillars that go down into the sea like hundreds of feet…and also has a nice payoff…like millions of dollars of oil.

So I like this metaphor more because it’s original and it has an emotional tie in to money…which drives every company at the visceral level.

]]> By: Chris Spagnuolo http://blog.duarte.com/2008/10/cliche-of-the-week-the-parthenon-and-contest-results/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Chris Spagnuolo Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:07:54 +0000 http://slideology.com/?p=803#comment-304 Another cliche: Hands holding a growing plant. Seeing it everywhere these days. Getting a little passe. Enough lants for growth!!! Samples: http://images.google.com/images?q=hands+plant&btnG=Search+Images&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&sa=2 Another cliche: Hands holding a growing plant. Seeing it everywhere these days. Getting a little passe. Enough lants for growth!!! Samples:

http://images.google.com/images?q=hands+plant&btnG=Search+Images&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&sa=2

]]> By: BlueBerry Pick'n http://blog.duarte.com/2008/10/cliche-of-the-week-the-parthenon-and-contest-results/comment-page-1/#comment-296 BlueBerry Pick'n Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:33 +0000 http://slideology.com/?p=803#comment-296 I've often wondered about the sheer 'see! I made a diagram! Ideas! mystically transformed from crap into substantiated fact!" intensity by which these presentations are hammered at an audience. Somehow, I'm supposed to be woo'd into an acolytes' avid & abject receptivity. You know, I think many an ancient cults' walls are based on a 'pssst, cimmmere, lemme explain the universe for you... ' come-unto-the-Light tentshow. "Its mystic, honest... it doesn't mean anything because you haven't delved hard enough... here drink this... now go blinking back into the Alley & tell everybody how transformationally meaningful it was or they'll think you're a thrill-seeking punter for sitting here in the dark... " I’ve often wondered about the sheer ’see! I made a diagram! Ideas! mystically transformed from crap into substantiated fact!” intensity by which these presentations are hammered at an audience.

Somehow, I’m supposed to be woo’d into an acolytes’ avid & abject receptivity.

You know, I think many an ancient cults’ walls are based on a ‘pssst, cimmmere, lemme explain the universe for you… ‘ come-unto-the-Light tentshow.

“Its mystic, honest… it doesn’t mean anything because you haven’t delved hard enough… here drink this… now go blinking back into the Alley & tell everybody how transformationally meaningful it was or they’ll think you’re a thrill-seeking punter for sitting here in the dark… “

]]> By: Jan Schultink http://blog.duarte.com/2008/10/cliche-of-the-week-the-parthenon-and-contest-results/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Jan Schultink Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:42:28 +0000 http://slideology.com/?p=803#comment-270 Thank you Doug! Today is my lucky day. About this Pantheon. It actually originated in the days that management consultants (like me) just started to use (overhead projector) slides that were more than just bar/line charts (early 90s). Rectangles, triangles were easy to draw in software such as Solo. And yes, "vision" was always somewhere at the top. Everyone was really excited about a different way to arrange text in a slide. Including an image in a slide would fill up your entire hard drive... Thank you Doug! Today is my lucky day.

About this Pantheon. It actually originated in the days that management consultants (like me) just started to use (overhead projector) slides that were more than just bar/line charts (early 90s).

Rectangles, triangles were easy to draw in software such as Solo. And yes, “vision” was always somewhere at the top. Everyone was really excited about a different way to arrange text in a slide. Including an image in a slide would fill up your entire hard drive…

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