The Pentagon's PowerPoint culture comes under the spotlight as a presentation links to the Pakistan hide-out operation. It's a reminder that even the most sensitive briefings can be undermined by a cluttered slide. Read more

America's intelligence chief James Clapper delivers a PowerPoint presentation that attracts satirical attention from a cartoonist. Thus proving that even the most serious briefings are not immune to visual ridicule. Read more

The PowerPoint habits of America's intelligence community are exposed to scrutiny. Because the slides tell a story about institutional communication culture that no press release ever would. Read more

Monmouthshire County Council takes its budget presentation to YouTube. Yes, an early and enterprising example of local government using digital platforms to make public finances more accessible. Read more

Donald Trump's presentation habits provide the hook for one of the most fundamental rules of slide presenting. Turning your back on your audience to read your own slides is never a good look. Read more

Donald Trump's election victory triggers an investment PowerPoint presentation that reaches for the political moment as its organising theme. The results that tell us as much about slide culture as about politics. Read more

A political presentation provides the hook for a practical lesson in eye contact and physical credibility. Because looking shifty on the podium is a presentation problem that no amount of good slides can fix. Read more

Ed Miliband's pre-conference PowerPoint warm-up gives away more about his communication strategy than perhaps intended. And it's a reminder that the slides you show before the speech can be as revealing as the speech itself. Read more

The Office for Budget Responsibility delivers a presentation so packed with three-letter acronyms that it becomes a case study. A case study in how official bodies can make important information entirely inaccessible. Read more

A WPP AGM becomes an object lesson in what happens when a company lets its slides speak for it. So, discover why the audience deserves better than a deck reading itself aloud. Read more

An energy sector conference presentation that ironically saps the room of energy. Energy-sapping slides that outlast their welcome and a delivery that struggles to keep pace with the analyst audience. Read more

The consumer goods giant demonstrates that even a global brand can fall into the trap of letting the format overwhelm the message at its own AGM. Read more

The high street banking giant delivers a results presentation heavy on data and light on narrative. Thus it leaves analysts to do the interpretive work that the deck should have done for them. Read more

A timely look at how AI tools are changing the preparation and delivery of business presentations. We consider what the financially-focused presenter should know before trusting the algorithm. Read more

Prezi attracts significant investment as the most serious early challenger to PowerPoint's dominance — and we examine what its zooming, non-linear canvas offers that the traditional slide cannot. Read more

Focusky positions itself as the style-conscious alternative to PowerPoint — with a visual approach that prioritises the experience of the audience over the convenience of the presenter. Read more

Splashtop allows presenters to control their slides from anywhere in the room — a small but significant shift in the physical relationship between presenter, slides and audience. Read more

AuthorSTREAM makes sharing PowerPoint presentations online genuinely straightforward — and opens up the question of what changes when a presentation is designed to be watched rather than attended. Read more

Slidebean uses AI-assisted design to take the visual decision-making out of the presenter's hands — a pragmatic solution for business presenters who know their content but not their colour palette. Read more

SmartDraw positions itself as the tool that reinvents how PowerPoint-style content is created — with diagramming and visual tools that go well beyond the standard slide template. Read more

PointDrive delivers presentations directly to the audience's device rather than projecting them on a screen. And so it's a fundamental rethink of the relationship between presenter, slides and viewer. Read more

Practical guidance on sharing PowerPoint presentations. Because getting the slides to the audience before, during and after the presentation is a logistical challenge that trips up more presenters than it should. Read more

Security researchers at the RSA conference expose vulnerabilities in PowerPoint itself. They add cybersecurity to the already long list of reasons to think carefully about what you put in your slides. Read more