would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote. Both Keynote and PowerPoint have add-ins which allow you to automatically send a tweet when you click on a slide. The Keynote add-in looks a lot more robust. 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.

home tech life management vegas glossary archives about Tech Life Simple, clean, and easy Keynote Kung-fu It’s WWDC season and that means Keynote . Today is Sunday and I’ve clocked 6 hours of Keynote and I’m ok with that. Keynote doesn’t get in my way and Keynote doesn’t piss me off, so I’m taking Lots of it. This is basic Keynote blocking and tackling.

well as to most Keynote presentations. Oh, let's face it. What's Kitsch? Kitsch is a black velvet painting. Garden gnomes, lava lamps, troll dolls, flamingo lawn ornaments, dogs playing poker -- all are classic kitsch. Often of poor quality, kitsch is an object that appeals to lowbrow, popular, or tacky tastes.

has now created an add-in for PowerPoint 2004 and 2007 which does just that. What about Keynote users? It’s called Keynote Tweet and works in much the same way. In my post 10 tools for presenting with Twitter , I lamented that there was no easy-to-use way of posting tweets from within PowerPoint. Timo Elliott of SAPWeb2.0

Bill wrote a good book in 2007 called Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Last month Bill gave a good 20-min keynote at Mix09 that kicked off a longer keynote by Scott Guthrie (corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET could tell from the moment he walked on stage that this was not going to be a boring keynote. You may not have heard of Bill Buxton yet, but the Canadian designer and computer scientist is well known in the field of human–computer interaction. Currently he is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research.

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The purpose of most keynotes is to entertain and inform the audience. This year, the keynote speaker is Guy Kawasaki, a well-known Silicon Valley innovator. Read More] Tracked on February 02, 2007 at 02:52 PM How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « The Education of a Late-Adopter Blogger | Main | Addendum to How to Get a Standing Ovation » January 18, 2006 How to Get a Standing Ovation When I started public speaking in about 1986, I was deathly afraid of public speaking--for one thing, working for the division run by Steve Jobs was

give presentations, talks, workshops, seminars and keynotes. Sometimes it's a keynote, which is meant to entertain or motivate. There are a lot of words for what I do when I have a speaking engagement. I I

As a former winner of Washington Women in Public Relations' "Washington PR Woman of the Year" award, I got to relax at this annual luncheon today and listen to keynoter Helen Thomas, a 57-year veteran of the White House Press Corps, first woman officer of the National Press Club, winner of the International Women's Media Foundation lifetime achievement award and the first woman member and president of the White House Correspondents' Association. Fearlessness and persistence are this eloquent woman's trademarks , and I was struck with her simple and direct language. As a former journalist

House of Representatives, and the first woman--and African-American--to deliver a keynote address to the Democratic national convention. Search on women and public speaking -- or ask your network about eloquent women, as we did recently on Linked In -- and Barbara Jordan's name always seems to come up more than once. For many who heard her in the 1960s and 70s, it's her voice that still resonates--and her ability to put simply some of the most complex ideas in democracy. She's another barrier-breaker: the first African-American since Reconstruction to be elected to the