In truth, PowerPoint itself is a morally neutral product.

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Poll #9869 I've been assimilated.

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I will be giving training to a team next week. I'm torn between using my live demo account, which may have cruft in it, or using PowerPoint, 'pon which I can put notes. (Part of this involves our software on mobile devices, which is another reason for PowerPoint.)

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Use your demo account.
0 (0.0%)

Use PowerPoint.
0 (0.0%)

Use PowerPoint for most of it, and the demo account for the rest.
5 (100.0%)

Examine your life choices.
3 (60.0%)

Other.
1 (20.0%)

Other?

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[jasra]

Having been in training all of this week, do both! It's much more interesting to watch someone in an app than spend 30-60 watching slides.

[nonethefewer]

Yeah, I want to make sure various things are set up in my demo account, so that I can show how specific things work, but a lot of things really are "this is how it looks", and here are some notes about it".  Also[0], this-all can be run on mobile devices, and I'd rather not have to run an emulator on the conference-room laptop.  (I have to use like 3 different "view as iPhone" sites to get all of the functionality I need.)  Also[1], I'm concerned that something in my location might break, and subsequently waste time.

I'll probably put most of it in PowerPoint, and put me-only notes for when to switch to live.