It's Presentation Season...stop your presentation before it kills again

Creating Passionate Users has a wonderful overview of what is good and bad about using powerpoint, "Stop your presentation before it kills again." Although my love for all things Tufte is well-known, in all honesty, there are some ways to use powerpoint successfully that is hard to replicate if you're going for ease of use and effectiveness (hint...text-heavy bullet-points aren't among them).