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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Warren is a Harvard Law School professor and the chair of the congressional oversight panel on TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), more commonly referred to as "the bailout." Download audio here. While watching news shows, I often feel my eyes glaze over and my brain go somewhere else while pundits and their guests discuss the finer details of political and financial matters. So when someone comes along who can put these complex concepts into easy-to-understand language, I practically jump off the couch.
 
Monday, February 1, 2010
My first observation was that he refers to his audience as users, PCs, developers, and beta-testers. Apple campaign reference Ballmer’s references to himself Matt Lauer said that the launch of Windows 7 was the most important launch Microsoft had done in ten years. If that’s true, why’d it suck so much?
 
Sunday, January 31, 2010
I wanted to aggregate them all in this post, so it can live as a quick reference base.  2009 was my first full year of blogging and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I was able to both educate and connect with my readers, two things I love doing.  Like all blogs, 2009 had it's share of posts that were better received than others. 
 

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so harmony refers to form but it also refers refers to an internal feeling or approach to art and to life. If there is one principle that reveals the essence of the Zen aesthetic found in Japanese traditional art and design — and life in general — it is harmony. The kanji that has been used by Japan for the past 1300 years or so to represent this concept is ? (wa).
She references the screen often but only to illustrate her point. People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics. Now, not every presentation has earth-shattering, Nobel-Prize winning significance, but I assume if you are talking about your research or current issues in your field, etc. that
Watch the presentation below or on the TED website. I love Shai's reference to JFK's famous and "crazy" line (highlighted in Made to Stick as well): "...put This TED presentation by Shai Agassi at TED in February was not one filled with tears or laughter or amazing visuals, but it was my personal favorite. This talk was informative, motivating, and inspiring.
This also gets others motivated. There must be a better way than using the overhead projector Tufte refers to it as "a trapezoid strip show" because the shape of the projected image is distorted, and people often use the technique of revealing only one line of the image at a time. Presentation Tips General: Main page History Presentation Tips General Links Software on windows: Power Point Freelance Graphics Harvard Graphics Software on other OS/Platform: Latex-based All right. This is not about interface, but it helps for your representation.
Having the twitter stream displayed also allows panelists to refer visually to specific tweets as they respond to them. Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it? Sir Ken Robinson speaking at "Hacking Education" organised by Union Square Ventures.
Refer to a shocking statistic I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons: 1.
describe the experiments in detail and quote from post-Mehrabian research (warning: academic references). If you don’t have time to go into detail, just refer them to this post. Albert Mehrabian The stickiest idea in presenting and public speaking is that the meaning of your message is communicated by: Your words 7%
References: Most training conferences in most industries resort to what’s called a panel session. This is where 3 to 5 experts get up on stage and each one, in turn, bores the audience to death. Why do panels still happen? One reason.
The presenter who loves his audience the most, wins. Posted by Seth Godin on March 05, 2009 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451b31569e2011279127ed328a4 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The two elements of a great presenter : » popurls.com | popular today from popurls.com | popular today story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com [Read More] Tracked