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Monday, February 15, 2010
Tags: Blog diagnostics information online help performance support referenc I often make chicken soup the haimische way. I doubt that my Yiddishe forebears used a pressure cooker, but I do. Everything else, including the dumplings is authentic.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
...Tags: Books Great Speakers Presentation Techniques Presentations presentation skills presentation tip
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Monday, September 21, 2009
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).
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Monday, June 29, 2009
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
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Monday, April 13, 2009
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.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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.
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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?
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
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.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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%
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