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Re: [ontology-summit] A Powerpoint communique?

To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion <ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee <ontology-summit-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mills Davis <mdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Rex Brooks <rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:00:51 -0700
Message-id: <4D88AB93.9050208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
My understanding is that we are planning to have a number of collateral 
and documents, including Ontology Application Framework, Case Studies, 
Use-Cases, Value Metrics and Models, so adding a user-reconfigurable 
slide deck only makes sense.    (01)

Cheers,
Rex    (02)

On 3/22/11 6:51 AM, Todd Schneider wrote:
> Michael,
>
>> It occurred to me that our target audience (business people who can make
>> decisions) may be more likely to see a Powerpoint pitch than wade
>> through 4-6 pages of text.
>>
>> Which would YOU be more inclined to look at?
>> What are your thoughts?
>>
>> For me, I personally prefer to read a good paper for a topic that
>> interests me. Nevertheless,  it takes less than a minute to scan through
>> a slide deck and get enough of the gist to decide to read more
>> carefully.  If people wrote excellent abstracts, I could do the same for
>> a text document, but you can never trust that they will.
> --->>>You have an excellent point. However, I assume the summit participants
>         would actually like to communicate. What I would suggest is do both.
>         Having created the communique, PowerPoint slides could then be 
>created.
>
> Todd
>
>
>
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