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Launched in 2005, it features an elite team of FBI employees who create profiles of the bad guys. The television series "Criminal Minds" probably has been singlehandedly responsible for motivating our best and brightest to apply for jobs at the FBI. Then they pursue them. The team leader has been Aaron Hotchner, played by Thomas Gibson. That character, like all characters on the series, is complex. And so loveable. MORE
The Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association has been running an Academy for emerging speakers since 2005. The Speakers Academy (originally called Pro-Track) has graduated over 300 speakers from the year-long training program. Since 2007 I have interviewed over 45 graduates and posted their information and the accompanying podcasts to this blog. I [.]. MORE
Paul Chaney taught me about this then new medium of blogging back in 2005. This is our ninth holiday season together. With your comments and page views you taught me how to cut to the bone in communicating whatever. Those who hired me for ghostwriting and speechwriting assignments because of this blog (SEO) proved the power of the Internet. MORE
" That's what I told my blogging coach Paul Chaney back in 2005, after he helped me get this site up and running. Since 2005, I have fallen apart when, well, life intervened and I couldn't blog as much as I wanted. "I'd rather be blogging." MORE
Monday, September 14, 2009 Inspiration from Steve Jobs Given Steve Jobs return to work last week after a 5-month medical leave following his liver transplant , theres no better time than now to go back and listen to Jobs 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. Posted by Sarah Gershman at 2:31 PM Labels: 2005 , apple , liver transplant , love what you do , passion , pixar , stanford commencement speech , Steve Jobs 5comments: Stuartsaid. MORE
In 2005, a year-long study conducted by Caliper , a Princeton, New Jersey-based management consulting firm, and Aurora , a London-based organization that advances women, identified several characteristics of women leaders. They found that when it comes to leadership, women are stronger than men in several areas. For example, women…. Are more assertive and persuasive. Have a stronger need to get things done. Are more willing to take risks. Are more empathetic and flexible. MORE
Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter Home About Contact Us Current Programs Inner Circle Newsletter Products 20 Presentation Skills That Kill: Audio CDSeminar Social Media and Public Relations: Audio Task Oriented Teams: Audio CDSeminar What We Do Tags LinkedIn Podcast: ProActive Networking by Tim 'Gonzo' Gordon on March 15, 2010 What does it take to network effectively both online and in-person? MORE
Thank you readers for sticking with this blog since April 2005. For the blog I launched in 2020, I would use the WordPress platform (that hadn't been available in 2005). The blog came into being this way. MORE
The 2005 graduation speech by Steve Jobs garnered a lot of attention at the time, and is still talked about today, having been downloaded millions of times. Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address Although Jobs is a self-made billionaire and cultural icon, right from the start Jobs displayed his humility and made a connection with the audience by saying "I never graduated from college. MORE
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005. A subscriber ask me how she could create a printed handout that contains only some of the slides in the presentation. She wanted to create a handout with 3 slides per page. Here are the steps: For PowerPoint 2010. Choose File> Print. In the Settings area, the first item will say Print All Slides. Click the down arrow and choose Custom Range. A box will appear, labeled “Slides.” Enter the slides that you want to print. For example, 1-3, 4, 6, 7-9. MORE
There is even a discussion of the Golden Mean and rule of thirds which I talked about in 2005 in this post From Wabi-Sabi to Golden Mean and here in From Golden Mean to Rule of Thirds. If you work in filmmaking or other forms of visual storytelling you are already comfortable talking about aspect ratios. But for many people it is still a bit of a mystery. An aspect ratio of a screen, for example, simply describes relationship between its width and its height. MORE
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers. MORE
Should we blog? Or is tweeting enough? In In fact, has Twitter become a more powerful communications tool than blogging? That's what clients ask me. After all, what compelled the attention of the world during the Silicon Valley trial "Pao v. Kleiner" were the tweets from the dozen or so tech journalists. Even the defendant's defense lawyer, Lynne Hermle, followed the tweets. MORE
I've talked about Tufte in my own books and on this website going back to at least this post in 2005. Edward Tufte is a leading expert in the data analysis and data visualization space. His books are classics and required reading for anyone interested in understanding how best to display quantitative information. I read his books just after I left Apple in 2003 to become a college professor in Japan. His books are foundational. MORE
You readers were there, all eyes, when this blog launched in April 2005. You took the time to follow, leave comments, ask questions, and make suggestions. That kept me hunting for exactly the right content. And to post it in ways that made you satisfied that you clicked on. Fourteen years later, I'm still hunting and still experimenting stylistically. And you are still there. Thank you. If I can be of service, please contact me at janegenova374@gmail.com. MORE
But she is also more than equal to the challenge of delivering a dramatic, deeply-felt speech, as she did at the 2005 funeral service for civil rights icon Rosa Parks. We've said it before: Jennifer Granholm is a rock star of public speaking. And she's had plenty of practice, in her work as state attorney general and two-term governor of Michigan, and her new job as a cable TV host. MORE
That was 2005. his amazing situation will circle back to points of law. But for now, the last-minute stay of execution of Nathaniel Woods by the U.S. Supreme Court is a story of activism by celebrities Kim Kardashian and Martin Luther King III. Daily Mail fills in all the details. MORE
As a legal blogger since 2005, I receive those communications regularly. The earnest tone, cautious wording, and extensive length: That's the standard MO of law firms around the world emailing me a letter requesting that I delete a post about their client. MORE
"A 2005 study of an Ebola outbreak in Gabon, Africa, suggests dogs can be infected with the virus but not suffer any symptoms." " - Bruce Golding, the New York Post, October 13, 2014. Here is the article. Although Dallas nurse Nina Pham's dog Bentley could be an Ebola carrier, the animal control authorities are treating him humanely, even in isolation. So far he has not tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile Pham is in stable condition. MORE
Since it was a small site, it worked — but by 2005, the site was huge and I knew that things had to change. I want to share with you a great resource for presenters– Indezine.com. This site is run by a great friend of mine, Geetesh Bajaj, and includes a vast amount of information on PowerPoint, presentation tools, and more. It also offers a huge number of backgrounds, both for free and for purchase. Recently, I interviewed Geetesh about his site. MORE
Published in 2005, it still ranks in the top 100,000 of books listed on Amazon. It's been the reality in many types of professional services for decades: the movement to niche expertise. Generalists drifted to the bottom of the food chain. MORE
I linked to this 2005 TED talk a few years ago, but it''s worth linking to again today. I''m a big fan of Scott McCloud''s work. Not only is Scott''s content stimulating and directly relevant to our world of presentation, the unique presentation of his story is a wonderful example of what is possible with your basic slideware app (and this is almost nine years ago!). MORE
TURN A DEAF EAR: CONVERSING, COMMENTING AND COMMUNICATING MAX ATKINSON By the same author Discovering Suicide: Studies in the Social Organization of Sudden Death (1978) London, The Macmillan Press Order in Court: The Organisation of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings (with Paul Drew) (1979) London, The Macmillan Press. MORE
Welcome to the weekend.Another cold one up in the Northeast. It seems like winter is still settled in here. How are things in your neck of the woods MORE
Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) Austrian-born American Management Consultant and Author. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”. Peter Drucker. Photo courtesy of The Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University. MORE
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers. MORE
In that study , journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Hsiang Ins Chyi, found that the growth in website readership was two-tenth of a percent between 2007 and 2005. "A new research paper finds that over the past eight years the websites of 51 major metropolitan newspapers have not on average seen appreciable readership gains, even as print readership falls." " - MediaLife, April 7, 2016. Here is the article. MORE
President's Day. Most people see this as another holiday to pursue recreation and leisure. I'm reflecting today on the great leaders who have given us the precious gift of freedom. Freedom of speech is another one of those rights we in America take for granted. But for many worldwide it isn't.My My personal freedom of speech heroes include Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, F. Roosevelt. Usually confined to history books, these visionaries defined, in their day, what freedom means. MORE
Welcome back. Would love to hear from any of you who received my first message. Consider this our meeting place. I have so many RD friends, old and new. This seemed like the perfect way to meet MORE
Stanford Commencement – 2005. The speed at which information travels has rendered most news dated within hours; days if a story really has “legs.” ” To last through multiple news cycles is very rare. The passing of Steve Jobs has done just that, and for good reason. Over the past decade, very few (if any) executives have had the impact on the way we communicate the way that Steve Jobs has. . MORE
Happy Sunday. As I continue the blog my hope is to share with you my insights on public speaking, my passion, and to offer my feedback to help you speak with confidence. Everyone has their own unique message. Our job in life, I believe, is to unleash that message for all to hear. I invite you to suggest topics and I will respond with my best answer MORE
In 2005, he was hit by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated his hometown of New Orleans. In the frenzy of closures and cancellations the last few days, my goal became to put out some positive ideas and information. MORE
All his presentations were great, but my favorite one of Steve's is not his usual Apple presentation, but rather a short 15-minute speech delivered from behind a lectern at Stanford University in the spring of 2005. Steve Jobs passed away today. He was just 56. Steve often talked about changing the world, and he did change the world in a huge way. His incredible dedication to detail and to simplicity and aesthetics raised the bar for technology, business, and design, and beyond. MORE
As a movie director, Sandel won an Academy Award in 2005 in the category, Best Short Film – Live Action. I was delighted to come across this short clip featuring Ari Sandel. His movie, West Bank Story , is a Romeo and Juliet musical comedy that takes place among the falafel stands of the West Bank. (By By the way, how can you not like a movie with the tagline: “A little singing, a little dancing, a lot of hummus&# ?). MORE
In 2005, he began his 25-year sentence for securities fraud. It was the scandal that ate right into investors' retirement accounts. I lost a bundle. And after lawyers took their fee in a shareholder lawsuit, I received less than 20 bucks. That kicked off in 2002. MORE
Scobleizer Searching for world-changing technology Home About Archives Index Favorites Posts Comments If you are a presenter you MUST watch this company: Prezi (new features just released) September 10, 2010 By Robert Scoble Maybe because I worked at Microsoft for three years I really can’t stand Microsoft PowerPoint. Every time I start a presentation I joke that I will not force my audience to sit through boring slides so I won’t be using PowerPoint today. MORE
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ahem … I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. Unless, of course, you actually do know Dick!). Dick Hardt. The presentation below (which, as you’ll see, was the inspiration for the title of this post) is an old one. MORE
This morning, CNN played (in full) the extraordinary commencement speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005. “What students actually do is what matters, not what the teachers present.” ” (Edward Redish, in a presentation given October 1998 at the Physics Revitalization Conference). Listen to the three stories Jobs told in this speech, starting with his story about dropping out of Reed College. . MORE
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers. MORE
About eight years ago Nancy contacted me out of the blue—and it will be eight years exactly this December that I first met Nancy and Mark Duarte at their offices in Mountain View California (post from 2005). Last month we took the long flight across the Pacific to spend a day with our friend Nancy Duarte at the new and very cool head office of Duarte, Inc. in Silicon Valley. MORE
Luttig served in that position since 2005. No surprise, following the exit of chief executive officer Dennis Muilenburg from Boeing comes the retirement of the general counsel Mike Luttig. Since last May he handled the legalities associated with the 737 MAX. In the two crashes of that model 346 human beings had died. Here are more details from The Wall Street Journal. MORE
Those exceptions include Steve Jobs' talk at Stanford in 2005, It's time to replace the commencement speech. Politico points out the many of the commencement speeches by big political players such as Elizabeth Warren and Terry McAuliffe have been banal. I would go further, all the way back to my own college graduation. The too-long rhetorical performance contained the worst of platitudes. MORE
Throwback Thursday… In 2005, Merv Griffin said he wrote the Jeopardy! them e song in under a minute. “That little 30 seconds has made me a fortune, millions,” he said. How much exactly? Somewhere between 70 and 80 million. And that was ten years ago. Let’s pretend it took you 30 seconds to click through and read this post. Is it possible that I just cost you a couple million? Sorry. It took me under a minute to write this. MORE
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FEBRUARY 13, 2005
Happy Sunday. As I continue the blog my hope is to share with you my insights on public speaking, my passion, and to offer my feedback to help you speak with confidence. Everyone has their own unique message. Our job in life, I believe, is to unleash that message for all to hear. I invite you to suggest topics and I will respond with my best answer
Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 21, 2005
President's Day. Most people see this as another holiday to pursue recreation and leisure. I'm reflecting today on the great leaders who have given us the precious gift of freedom. Freedom of speech is another one of those rights we in America take for granted. But for many worldwide it isn't.My My personal freedom of speech heroes include Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, F. Roosevelt. Usually confined to history books, these visionaries defined, in their day, what freedom means.
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Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 19, 2005
Welcome to the weekend.Another cold one up in the Northeast. It seems like winter is still settled in here. How are things in your neck of the woods
Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 18, 2005
Welcome back. Would love to hear from any of you who received my first message. Consider this our meeting place. I have so many RD friends, old and new. This seemed like the perfect way to meet
Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 12, 2005
Just back from the Florida sun. A welcome break from the northeast snow. A question for y'all.what what do you fear most about speaking in front of groups
The Eloquent Woman
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
But she is also more than equal to the challenge of delivering a dramatic, deeply-felt speech, as she did at the 2005 funeral service for civil rights icon Rosa Parks. We've said it before: Jennifer Granholm is a rock star of public speaking. And she's had plenty of practice, in her work as state attorney general and two-term governor of Michigan, and her new job as a cable TV host.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 2, 2015
Should we blog? Or is tweeting enough? In In fact, has Twitter become a more powerful communications tool than blogging? That's what clients ask me. After all, what compelled the attention of the world during the Silicon Valley trial "Pao v. Kleiner" were the tweets from the dozen or so tech journalists. Even the defendant's defense lawyer, Lynne Hermle, followed the tweets.
Green Room Speakers
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009 Inspiration from Steve Jobs Given Steve Jobs return to work last week after a 5-month medical leave following his liver transplant , theres no better time than now to go back and listen to Jobs 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. Posted by Sarah Gershman at 2:31 PM Labels: 2005 , apple , liver transplant , love what you do , passion , pixar , stanford commencement speech , Steve Jobs 5comments: Stuartsaid.
Communication Steroids
MARCH 15, 2010
Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter Home About Contact Us Current Programs Inner Circle Newsletter Products 20 Presentation Skills That Kill: Audio CDSeminar Social Media and Public Relations: Audio Task Oriented Teams: Audio CDSeminar What We Do Tags LinkedIn Podcast: ProActive Networking by Tim 'Gonzo' Gordon on March 15, 2010 What does it take to network effectively both online and in-person?
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
The Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association has been running an Academy for emerging speakers since 2005. The Speakers Academy (originally called Pro-Track) has graduated over 300 speakers from the year-long training program. Since 2007 I have interviewed over 45 graduates and posted their information and the accompanying podcasts to this blog. I [.].
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 1, 2019
You readers were there, all eyes, when this blog launched in April 2005. You took the time to follow, leave comments, ask questions, and make suggestions. That kept me hunting for exactly the right content. And to post it in ways that made you satisfied that you clicked on. Fourteen years later, I'm still hunting and still experimenting stylistically. And you are still there. Thank you. If I can be of service, please contact me at janegenova374@gmail.com.
More than PowerPoint...
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Throwback Thursday… In 2005, Merv Griffin said he wrote the Jeopardy! them e song in under a minute. “That little 30 seconds has made me a fortune, millions,” he said. How much exactly? Somewhere between 70 and 80 million. And that was ten years ago. Let’s pretend it took you 30 seconds to click through and read this post. Is it possible that I just cost you a couple million? Sorry. It took me under a minute to write this.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
OCTOBER 28, 2009
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
OCTOBER 28, 2009
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
OCTOBER 28, 2009
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers.
Matt Eventoff
OCTOBER 10, 2011
Stanford Commencement – 2005. The speed at which information travels has rendered most news dated within hours; days if a story really has “legs.” ” To last through multiple news cycles is very rare. The passing of Steve Jobs has done just that, and for good reason. Over the past decade, very few (if any) executives have had the impact on the way we communicate the way that Steve Jobs has. .
Speaker Launcher
MARCH 19, 2020
In 2005, he was hit by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated his hometown of New Orleans. In the frenzy of closures and cancellations the last few days, my goal became to put out some positive ideas and information.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
In 2005, he began his 25-year sentence for securities fraud. It was the scandal that ate right into investors' retirement accounts. I lost a bundle. And after lawyers took their fee in a shareholder lawsuit, I received less than 20 bucks. That kicked off in 2002.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 6, 2020
Thank you readers for sticking with this blog since April 2005. For the blog I launched in 2020, I would use the WordPress platform (that hadn't been available in 2005). The blog came into being this way.
Presentation Zen
AUGUST 5, 2013
About eight years ago Nancy contacted me out of the blue—and it will be eight years exactly this December that I first met Nancy and Mark Duarte at their offices in Mountain View California (post from 2005). Last month we took the long flight across the Pacific to spend a day with our friend Nancy Duarte at the new and very cool head office of Duarte, Inc. in Silicon Valley.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 25, 2013
Paul Chaney taught me about this then new medium of blogging back in 2005. This is our ninth holiday season together. With your comments and page views you taught me how to cut to the bone in communicating whatever. Those who hired me for ghostwriting and speechwriting assignments because of this blog (SEO) proved the power of the Internet.
Max Atkinson
JUNE 24, 2014
TURN A DEAF EAR: CONVERSING, COMMENTING AND COMMUNICATING MAX ATKINSON By the same author Discovering Suicide: Studies in the Social Organization of Sudden Death (1978) London, The Macmillan Press Order in Court: The Organisation of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings (with Paul Drew) (1979) London, The Macmillan Press.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 5, 2020
That was 2005. his amazing situation will circle back to points of law. But for now, the last-minute stay of execution of Nathaniel Woods by the U.S. Supreme Court is a story of activism by celebrities Kim Kardashian and Martin Luther King III. Daily Mail fills in all the details.
PowerPoint Tips
MARCH 10, 2011
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005. A subscriber ask me how she could create a printed handout that contains only some of the slides in the presentation. She wanted to create a handout with 3 slides per page. Here are the steps: For PowerPoint 2010. Choose File> Print. In the Settings area, the first item will say Print All Slides. Click the down arrow and choose Custom Range. A box will appear, labeled “Slides.” Enter the slides that you want to print. For example, 1-3, 4, 6, 7-9.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Luttig served in that position since 2005. No surprise, following the exit of chief executive officer Dennis Muilenburg from Boeing comes the retirement of the general counsel Mike Luttig. Since last May he handled the legalities associated with the 737 MAX. In the two crashes of that model 346 human beings had died. Here are more details from The Wall Street Journal.
Presentation Zen
JANUARY 31, 2014
I linked to this 2005 TED talk a few years ago, but it''s worth linking to again today. I''m a big fan of Scott McCloud''s work. Not only is Scott''s content stimulating and directly relevant to our world of presentation, the unique presentation of his story is a wonderful example of what is possible with your basic slideware app (and this is almost nine years ago!).
Presentation Zen
OCTOBER 5, 2011
All his presentations were great, but my favorite one of Steve's is not his usual Apple presentation, but rather a short 15-minute speech delivered from behind a lectern at Stanford University in the spring of 2005. Steve Jobs passed away today. He was just 56. Steve often talked about changing the world, and he did change the world in a huge way. His incredible dedication to detail and to simplicity and aesthetics raised the bar for technology, business, and design, and beyond.
Manner of Speaking
JUNE 24, 2010
As a movie director, Sandel won an Academy Award in 2005 in the category, Best Short Film – Live Action. I was delighted to come across this short clip featuring Ari Sandel. His movie, West Bank Story , is a Romeo and Juliet musical comedy that takes place among the falafel stands of the West Bank. (By By the way, how can you not like a movie with the tagline: “A little singing, a little dancing, a lot of hummus&# ?).
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 9, 2016
In that study , journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Hsiang Ins Chyi, found that the growth in website readership was two-tenth of a percent between 2007 and 2005. "A new research paper finds that over the past eight years the websites of 51 major metropolitan newspapers have not on average seen appreciable readership gains, even as print readership falls." " - MediaLife, April 7, 2016. Here is the article.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 12, 2016
Launched in 2005, it features an elite team of FBI employees who create profiles of the bad guys. The television series "Criminal Minds" probably has been singlehandedly responsible for motivating our best and brightest to apply for jobs at the FBI. Then they pursue them. The team leader has been Aaron Hotchner, played by Thomas Gibson. That character, like all characters on the series, is complex. And so loveable.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 13, 2014
"A 2005 study of an Ebola outbreak in Gabon, Africa, suggests dogs can be infected with the virus but not suffer any symptoms." " - Bruce Golding, the New York Post, October 13, 2014. Here is the article. Although Dallas nurse Nina Pham's dog Bentley could be an Ebola carrier, the animal control authorities are treating him humanely, even in isolation. So far he has not tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile Pham is in stable condition.
Thoughts On Presenting And Design
DECEMBER 11, 2010
Scobleizer Searching for world-changing technology Home About Archives Index Favorites Posts Comments If you are a presenter you MUST watch this company: Prezi (new features just released) September 10, 2010 By Robert Scoble Maybe because I worked at Microsoft for three years I really can’t stand Microsoft PowerPoint. Every time I start a presentation I joke that I will not force my audience to sit through boring slides so I won’t be using PowerPoint today.
DeFinis Communications
AUGUST 31, 2011
In 2005, a year-long study conducted by Caliper , a Princeton, New Jersey-based management consulting firm, and Aurora , a London-based organization that advances women, identified several characteristics of women leaders. They found that when it comes to leadership, women are stronger than men in several areas. For example, women…. Are more assertive and persuasive. Have a stronger need to get things done. Are more willing to take risks. Are more empathetic and flexible.
PowerPoint Tips
APRIL 22, 2011
Since it was a small site, it worked — but by 2005, the site was huge and I knew that things had to change. I want to share with you a great resource for presenters– Indezine.com. This site is run by a great friend of mine, Geetesh Bajaj, and includes a vast amount of information on PowerPoint, presentation tools, and more. It also offers a huge number of backgrounds, both for free and for purchase. Recently, I interviewed Geetesh about his site.
Joan Detz Speaker Services
OCTOBER 6, 2011
This morning, CNN played (in full) the extraordinary commencement speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005. “What students actually do is what matters, not what the teachers present.” ” (Edward Redish, in a presentation given October 1998 at the Physics Revitalization Conference). Listen to the three stories Jobs told in this speech, starting with his story about dropping out of Reed College. .
Manner of Speaking
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ahem … I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. Unless, of course, you actually do know Dick!). Dick Hardt. The presentation below (which, as you’ll see, was the inspiration for the title of this post) is an old one.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Published in 2005, it still ranks in the top 100,000 of books listed on Amazon. It's been the reality in many types of professional services for decades: the movement to niche expertise. Generalists drifted to the bottom of the food chain.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 18, 2019
As a legal blogger since 2005, I receive those communications regularly. The earnest tone, cautious wording, and extensive length: That's the standard MO of law firms around the world emailing me a letter requesting that I delete a post about their client.
Presentation Zen
JULY 5, 2013
There is even a discussion of the Golden Mean and rule of thirds which I talked about in 2005 in this post From Wabi-Sabi to Golden Mean and here in From Golden Mean to Rule of Thirds. If you work in filmmaking or other forms of visual storytelling you are already comfortable talking about aspect ratios. But for many people it is still a bit of a mystery. An aspect ratio of a screen, for example, simply describes relationship between its width and its height.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 1, 2018
Those exceptions include Steve Jobs' talk at Stanford in 2005, It's time to replace the commencement speech. Politico points out the many of the commencement speeches by big political players such as Elizabeth Warren and Terry McAuliffe have been banal. I would go further, all the way back to my own college graduation. The too-long rhetorical performance contained the worst of platitudes.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 13, 2013
" That's what I told my blogging coach Paul Chaney back in 2005, after he helped me get this site up and running. Since 2005, I have fallen apart when, well, life intervened and I couldn't blog as much as I wanted. "I'd rather be blogging."
Presentation Zen
DECEMBER 7, 2016
I've talked about Tufte in my own books and on this website going back to at least this post in 2005. Edward Tufte is a leading expert in the data analysis and data visualization space. His books are classics and required reading for anyone interested in understanding how best to display quantitative information. I read his books just after I left Apple in 2003 to become a college professor in Japan. His books are foundational.
Presentation Zen
JUNE 20, 2011
The 2005 graduation speech by Steve Jobs garnered a lot of attention at the time, and is still talked about today, having been downloaded millions of times. Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address Although Jobs is a self-made billionaire and cultural icon, right from the start Jobs displayed his humility and made a connection with the audience by saying "I never graduated from college.
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