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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13 month ago
43folders : Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School
veen : Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School - "I do a lot of presentations. Each time I give a talk, I try to improve on something. I have a good base on which to build thanks to an unlikely education. Despite my career in technology, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatr
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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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19 month ago
veen : Thanks for the Facts. Now Sell Them. - washingtonpost.com - "Simply put, the media, policymakers and members of the public consume scientific information in a vastly different way than the scientists who generate it."
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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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32 month ago
veen : The Korea Times : ‘Origami’ Stumps CEOs in Jobs-Style Presentation - "The new PC proved to be too revolutionary, enough to baffle the three firms' executive officers who publicly tried to demonstrate how to use it."
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48 month ago
veen : sooper.org: PowerPointless? - Collected links on the danger of PowerPoint overdose.
François Nonnenmacher : powerpointless?
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48 month ago
Paul Hammond : beyond bullets - new ways to use media to help you relate better to other people
veen : Beyond Bullets - Good ideas on giving good presentations, though the self-styled "guru" relentlessly pushes his "starter kit".
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49 month ago
jkottke : The many Venn diagrams of user experience - Nothing sells your ideas better than three intersecting circles.
veen : Functioning Form - User Experience Comes in Threes - UX experience (including me) can't seem to explain an idea without three overlapping cirlces. Here's a collection of Venn Diagrams from UX folks.
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