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. Extract colors from an image One of the coolest ways to assemble a unique color theme for a presentation is to create a simple palette by extracting colors from a key image that you think represents the appropriate colors for your talk. So why not try making a unique color theme from a photo of a nature scene.

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I’ve hacked the format a few times, including using a special time counter deck to give me more flexibility (see photo at right). 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.  Similar to, but simpler than, Pecha Kucha , and more involved than lightening talks , in ignite each speakers gets 5 minutes - but must have 20 slides and each slide must automatically progress in 15 seconds.

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As such, I almost always eschew bullet points for a single word or phrase per slide, accompanied by lots of photos. Use lots of photos in your slides, but pick photos with soul. Here’s a tip–there’s more soul on Flickr than iStockPhoto. These are the three DarrenBarefoot.com Contact Jobs Speaking About Home September 3rd, 2007 Filed under: Mixed Bag , Technology , The Arts 71 Comments » Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint.

In this photo below from the Animoto slideshow, you can see best-selling novelist Barry Eisler and executive and environmental preservationist Bill Werlin and me at the Ooedo-Onsen-Monogatari the night before the event. ( See what it's like inside.) TEDxTokyo 09 related links • 7 min of Sherry Strong (my Flip recording) • TEDxTokyo party (a few Flip video interviews) • Anthony Willoughby's talk (recorded on my Flip) • TEDxTokyo Flickr site • TEDxTokyo Facebook • TEDxTokyo blog •

Photos ( Zenfolio | Flickr ) Archives About Contact Dear Speakers By James Duncan Davidson on March 8, 2009 12:22 AM | 71 Comments Tagged: advice, speaking Last week, while shooting eComm 2009 in Burlingame, I started posting a set of thoughts on Twitter, all starting out Dear Speaker . But, you don’t look as good in your photos or on video with a dork tag hanging around your neck. Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do. It’s

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There are great stock photography sites , where you can find photos for just a few bucks. And if that’s too much, check out flickr’s Creative Commons –the photos are beautiful and FREE*. Attribution is required, and permission depends on where said photo will be used. Have you ever done a presentation for a product you didn’t believe in? How ’bout for a product that doesn’t even exist?