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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Photo by Colin Purrington, from Flickr , and a hat tip to Ivan Oransky for sharing this post.) If you're an organizer who gets annoyed with speaker, or a speaker made to feel superfluous, look away. I asked about it at the registration desk,” he said. I was told it’s not mandatory for the presenter to attend. checked it out.
 
Monday, August 16, 2010
Image courtesy of Today Is A Good Day on Flickr. Over the weekend I attended The Audience Conference at historic Caroline's on Broadway in the heart of Times Square, NYC.  The conference was to be a blend of social media and comedy, and their similar relationships with content, audience, and the like.  Chris Brogan , C.C. Venue As C.C. Tweet.
 
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
I knew about sites like Flickr where I could get free Creative Commons licensed photography, but the search engines on most of those sites are crap.  CompFight is a Flickr search tool that uses the API to accomplish what the built-in search box in Flickr obviously can't do - intelligently find the images you're looking for. 
 

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via flickr.com. Posted via web from Mike Pulsifer's posterous.
via flickr.com. Some photos I’ve recently gotten around to uploading. Posted via web from Mike Pulsifer’s posterous.
via flickr.com. Took these a while ago and recently fixed up, knowing what I know now and didn’t then. Posted via web from Mike Pulsifer’s posterous.
But I did see a disturbing trend – the overuse of flickr photos and other interesting images. This great post from Olivia Mitchell. Are your slides ‘Visual Musak’? saw very few bullet-point presentations at the SXSW conference. These photos sometimes feature stunning photography, they’re quirky and interesting.
Some stuff I once had on SmugMug, now back online, but now on Flickr: Tags: Grab Bag
I knew about sites like Flickr where I could get free Creative Commons licensed photography, but the search engines on most of those sites are crap.  CompFight is a Flickr search tool that uses the API to accomplish what the built-in search box in Flickr obviously can't do - intelligently find the images you're looking for. 
Want to use a FlickR image into your presentation? Each of the cloudware apps I used let you search and add unique FlickR images with the same ease you'd have inserting a stale piece of clipart to a PowerPoint presentation. Yes, you can design a PowerPoint presentation without using PowerPoint. What are Presentation Design Cloud Apps?
Search flickr using the advanced options to show you creative commons images. There’s this popular format for public speaking called Ignite - It’s an evening of short talks with some special rules.  This is super short, which means it’s easy to practice. There is no excuse for not practicing until it feels good. Do this.
There are two ways to create unique color themes: either by selecting a single color on the color wheel as your base color and building off of that, or by importing an image from Flickr or your hard disk and extracting harmonious combinations from the image. So why not try making a unique color theme from a photo of a nature scene.
Image courtesy of 1HappySnapper on Flickr. Maybe it's just me, but one of the best ways for me to learn more about effective PowerPoint design is to see how other designers have approached slide redesigns, in other words a Before and After.  I would love to get your ideas of how I could have designed them differently in the comments section.