24 days ago
veen : Particletree » How We Prepare a Demo - Kevin Hale on the prep they do for WuFoo demos. Great stuff.
Rod Begbie : How We Prepare a Demo - Great tips on making a tech presentation. In particular, the suggestion of using screencast software to demo your software makes a huge amount of sense, and is something I'm surprised more people don't do to mitigate risk. [via] #
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : SlideShare: Ignite Web 2.0 Expo SF II - The slide decks from the recent Ignite night, synced up to recordings of the presentations. Each is a mere five minutes long, and I highly recommend "By the time I finish this talk, everyone were will want to run a marathon", "Snarkatron" and "Giant Mons [via] #
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12 month ago
deusx : dy/dan » Blog Archive » So Happy Together #1 - "So you’ve gotta ask yourself: the planes that were shot down, where did they get hit?"
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15 month ago
philgyford : How I made my presentations a little better | 43 Folders - Merlin Mann's collection of tips and links on doing better presentations. Part of me would like to do presentations so I could do good ones. (via Danhon)
Rod Begbie : How I made my presentations a little better | 43 Folders - Good collation of presentation links and tips from Merlin Mann. #
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16 month ago
43folders : Inbox Zero: Action-Based Email » SlideShare - Here's the slides for my Google Tech Talk on "Inbox Zero." Neato little viewer plus community features (inspiration via Matt Haughey)
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17 month ago
43folders : Uncle Sam's Photos - Stock Photo Collections - It would be a fun challenge to see if I could build my next Keynote out of just free US Govt. images.
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18 month ago
Richard Rutter : Advice for presentations: It happens! - Superb practical advice for speakers from Joe Clark, who has been there and done that.
Rod Begbie : Advice for presentations: It happens! - Good tips for presenting at conferences. [via] #
43folders : Advice for presentations: It happens! - "Everybody came to see you. Nobody came to see your slides." Post is full of terrific advice for presenters.
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20 month ago
jonhicks : Soho
Khoi Vinh : Monotype Introduces Soho - Beautiful new typeface in a full complement of weights and widths, designed by Sebastian Lester for Monotype. Thanks to Stan for the tip.
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24 month ago
43folders : Presentation Zen: Presenting under fire: links to tips on keeping your cool - "...even the tiniest hint of frustration (anger, etc.) will be picked up by an audience; sometimes it may be the only thing they remember about you."
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25 month ago
43folders : Presentation Zen: Bill Clinton and the art of speaking in a "human voice" - "Whether it is a speech or an interview, he comes across as articulate and extremely intelligent but without being aloof or pedantic."
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26 month ago
plasticbag : The people who benefit most from talks and lectures are the people who give them - I completely believe this. It totally meshes with my experience. The whole process of preparing, practicing and dellivering talks pushes me to clarify my ideas and then keeps them in a nice memorable structure that I find really easy to retain.
jimray : Lectures Work Against the Brain - Talking at people for more than about five minutes is useless. Or, at least, counterproductive.
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27 month ago
Paul Hammond : Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha presentation creator - Create a Pecha Kucha presentation from your last twenty del.icio.us bookmarks
plasticbag : The Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha presentation creator allows spontaneous presentations based on your last twenty links in del.icio.us - We did a bit of this last night at BarCamp London before an endless series of games of Werewolf. Easy prey. Yum yum.
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27 month ago
43folders : Presentation Zen: Learning from the art of comics - "By stripping down an image to essential 'meaning,' an artist can amplify that meaning..."
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merlinmann : Internet Time Blog :: Good Stuff to Know - "For preparing a talk…"
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28 month ago
Rod Begbie : Presentation Tips For The Technically Gifted - Good tips on how to do your tech project demo. Should be required reading for anyone talking at WebInno meetings. [via] #
deusx : Presentation Tips For The Technically Gifted - "It’s really hard to do a 10 minute presentation. ... 10 minutes doesn’t give you a lot of time to build rapport with the audience or otherwise “get into your grooveâ€."
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33 month ago
merlinmann : Living large: 'Takahashi Method' uses king-sized text as a visual - "...the slide above says 'I don't have PowerPoint...'" [via: bblog]
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34 month ago
deusx : SpaziOPML - Friday, August 12, 2005 - Pretty freakin' cool: "wanted some way to make presentations for my outlines" OPML + XSLT + S5 = Presentations straight from the OPML Editor
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | Behind the magic curtain - A former Apple employee gives some insight into the lead-up to a Steve Jobs keynote. [via] #
plasticbag : Behind the magic curtain - how Steve Jobs prepares for the Apple keynotes... - Mike Evangelist reveals how the keynotes work. What's really interesting for me here is how much of this stuff is organised around demanding top-down management. God knows what it's like to work with Jobs...
jimray : Behind the magic curtain - An insider look behind the Apple keynotes
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36 month ago
deusx : presentacular - Adding effects to S5 with script.aculo.us - "Presentacular adds script.aculo.us visual effects to slide shows created with S5."
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36 month ago
deusx : Joi Ito's Web: A bit too "easy" - "Of course, I'm probably free at midnight, but I wasn't sure if that was great."
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37 month ago
kayodeok : PowerPoint and Presentation Tips - If you've become a bullet point abuser or just want to spice up your presentations, check out these tips on creating a non-zombifying presentations
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Simply Accessible - We are designing when we produce solutions that are built with intent – they are well thought out and created to be accessible at many levels and (generally) don’t compromise aesthetics and usability
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38 month ago
plasticbag : This is a bit random: An illustator vector mockup of the Safari toolbar for those webdesigners who build in Illustrator and may need to show off their designs in print or on a projector - Basically it stops all the nasty pixellation things happening when you make things bigger. Except why do it with Safari? That's got to be a bit random, surely?
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39 month ago
kayodeok : OED | How to Make Your Speaking Easier and More Effective - How to Make Your Speaking Easier and More Effective
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39 month ago
kayodeok : particletree: Public Speaking Jitters - Some resources for public speaking
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