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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
It doesn’t matter that your site covers a niche that only some people care about. For example:
Give your site a critical assessment. Please send me your favorite examples of great headlines—and why you love them. Your Target Customers Won’t Read Your Content without Compelling Headlines
Too many websites lack effective headlines.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Some presenters used them to launch demos of Web sites.
Take, for example, the slide deck I made over recently:
If any of us had the wherewithal to copy them down or even go to those sites on our phones or laptops, then we’re even more distracted. There If the intent was for the speaker to click on those links and demonstrate the sites, then it’s an invitation PowerPoint’s been around longer than the World Wide Web easily by a country mile. When When use of the Web became popular, URLs started invading slide decks. Sometimes
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
First off, lets look at how to use Twitter to promote certain sites or posts of your own and then using Twitter enough times to emphasize how repetition is used to increase web traffic. First off, lets look at how people use Twitter to promote their sites. One of the key methods of public speaking that I learned early is the idea of repetition - you have to repeat yourself a lot when speaking because there is a good chance that people either didn't hear you the first time or they weren't paying attention. When speaking, you have to repeat yourself to ensure that the key ideas you
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
She documents her experience in an article on the Police One web site . Recently, Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith, a law enforcement trainer, went to the UAE to do some training. There are a few lessons we can all learn from her experience. First, a strict focus on the audience.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The movie is also an example of how effective a slide show presentation can be. Some presentations have been viewed over a half million times. This page was last modified 23:20, 19 June 2008 by howto_admin .
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
always mention Microsoft’s online library of images that is accessible through PowerPoint, stock photography sites such as istockphoto.com and pictures you take yourself. Here is a photo of a sunrise in Alaska from the NOAA Photo Library listed below (taken by Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps). The availability of these photos varies from country to country, and today I’ll use the US government as the example of one that offers a vast collection online. In almost every workshop that I do, someone asks where you can get great photos to use in your presentation. I
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The video is 50-minutes long and is essentially a video version of the book with many of the same examples. Rather, it's just me talking to you about the core themes of the book with loads of examples (most of which are from the book). On the Peachpit site you can see a 2-min clip from the video, or watch the same clip below.
The making of the DVD It would have been easier if I read a script off a teleprompter in the studio, but that's not how Last June, I made a trip from Osaka to San Francisco to film a video version of the PZ book. The results
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
There are a few other download options on their site here , including the actual (gulp) PowerPoint deck (sans Bill's special font).
Displaying the presenter & the visual simultaneously Below are a few screen captures from the website. The live Mix09 stage design — with superfluous animation — was a distraction for me as well, but I guess that's just Vegas.)
This is a good time to be focused on experience, says Bill Buxton. Good example of Return on Experience: Walter Teague's design work at Kodak
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Example from the baby article: "Two words I'd rather not hear from you: rectal thermometer." Tags: presentation skills public speaking membership site Tom Antion public speakin Just today, I read two humorous articles that used a simple but effective technique: adopting another person's perspective or personality. In one, Kelly Ahlfeld wrote about "What your baby would tell you if he could talk," for "Parenting Magazine."
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
For example, display the screen when you’ve asked a question and want people to respond via Twitter or when you invite audience members to ask their questions using Twitter. For example, if you’re asking people to ask their questions via Twitter, and there are far more questions than you can handle – you could pick out the questions you want to answer and display those. The site says that it allows moderation, 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
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