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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Download now or watch on posterous. IMG_0005.mov (4906 KB). Posted via email from Mike Pulsifer's posterous.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The following is a reply to a comment. View the comment thread. by Galeforce10 July 26, 2010 2:13 AM PDT. Quote from another forum. apologise because I cant remember the posters name and I don't know if it was original or he copied it from somewhere: "This is where I think most analysis goes off the rails. But in reality, the opposite is often true.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
via 37signals.com. First of all, note the two-line app name. Not a wise design decision for a device with a limited screen size * Email icon for Text Messagin' * Different names for the same app: "Text Messagin." and "Text Mess" * Replacing a letter with three characters that together take up more space than the one letter: "Text Messagin."
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
We’ve seen these people. They’re all over the place. In some organizations, it’s institutionalized. What I’m concerned about is the laser pointer. Not everyone uses them, but I don’t see anyone standing up and pleading for these people with frickin’ lasers in their hands to stop. It’s not malicious.
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Yesterday, I came across this gem on Daring Fireball where John Gruber discusses the change in the rules for developers: My reading of this new language is that cross-compilers, such as theFlash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe’s upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited. They might be OK. This makes me happy because this rights a wrong.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
No, I haven’t abandoned this blog. The gap in between posts can easily be explained. You see, I have been learning how to use Adobe Premiere and Screenflick. The results can be seen below as I share with you how to create effective charts in Keynote ‘09. Either way, I welcome your feedback.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
For my previous slide make-over , I gave a slide deck presented by the Coast Guard at a Web 2.0 workshop. This facelift targets a deck presented by the EPA at the same workshop. The issues were different this time and unfortunately, the “Greenversations At A Glance&# slide deck was typical of what I see on a regular basis. For the “Why?&#
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Download now or watch on posterous. IMG_0005.mov (4906 KB). Posted via email from Mike Pulsifer's posterous.
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The Latest from the Speaking Pro Central Community
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Ellen Finkelstein has organized a series of webinar presentations with a great line up of presenters. And not only will you not have any travel and accommodation costs, the webinars themselves are free! To sign up for the webinars go to this webpage: Outstanding Presentations Workshop. Here’s the schedule for the webinars. Speaker. Times.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Enthusiasm is a necessary qualification for effective speaking. When you show enthusiasm it is contagious. The enjoyment and knowledge that is demonstrated for your subject will result in increased listener enjoyment and your speech being more convincing. The feeling of excitement must come through as you deliver. Have an active interest in people.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
My congratulations to Mike Folie (a speechwriting seminar alum) and Tim Becker, who announced that their spec screenplay, THEY SHOOT WEDDINGS, DON’T THEY?, is one of 35 finalists in the Final Draft Big Break Scriptwriting Contest. This is quite an honor … more than 3,500 entries were submitted from around the world.Go
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Monday, May 11, 2009
TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some are for even less time such as 3- and 6-minute slots). Ben Saunders ). Thou Shalt Tell a Story. Although Dr.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Seven principles for changing your perception Kanso (??) Fukinsei (???) Shizen (??)
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Most people do not really think about design and designers, let alone think of themselves as designers. But what, if anything, can regular people — teachers, students, business people of all types — learn from designers and from thinking like a designer? And what of more specialized professions? believe there is. 1) Embrace constraints.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work. The research is the work of Chris Atherton , a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare. The research. Sparse slides.
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