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Make your speech short… Six-Word Speech Contest results via SpeakerNet News

10/01/2013

SpeakerNet News Six-Word Speech Contest Here are the winners of the SpeakerNet News Six-Word Speech Contest, along with all of the submitted entries. See how the contest was set up and run. Where a number of entries fit into a topic or category, we grouped them together. The final category, “Other,” was for entries that […]

Seth’s Blog: Most people a simple Haiku slide deck example…

21/12/2012

via sethgodin.typepad.com

The self-help / positive thinking industry can be misleading and sometimes plain wrong but… gratitude journals shine through…

20/11/2012

How to feel up in a downturn by Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian article is here – guardian.co.uk Extract…”For the past year or so, sporadically, I have kept what the University of California psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls a “gratitude journal”: a notebook in which I list between three and five things for which I am currently thankful. Naturally, […]

Death by PowerPoint in 1841 via Knoodle

26/10/2012

Death by PowerPoint takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the unfortunate tale of William Henry Harrison, our nation’s ninth president. Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1841, back when there was something called the Whig party and everyone lived without electricity. At 68, he was the oldest president elected to […]

Amazing!! New iPad Act – Stockholm with Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales – from MIPIM in Cannes v 3 – YouTube

19/09/2012

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PowerPoint: The Extreme Makeover Edition (Before and After Slides) – via Forbes

19/09/2012

Don’t blame PowerPoint for a boring presentation. The problem with today’s typical business presentation is NOT PowerPoint. The storyteller is the problem, the presenter who creates wordy, text-heavy slides and uses dull, convoluted jargon and buzzwords. In a previous column titled, Jeff Bezos and the end of PowerPoint as we know it, I made the […]

A Presentation App That Forces You To Tell Better Stories – could Haiku be the answer to death by powerpoint?

17/09/2012

The dangers of bad a PowerPoint presentation are manifold. It might just mean putting your audience to sleep, or running afoul of the High Council of Information Design. But if your presentations have wider reaching concerns, like those given routinely by members of the U.S. Armed Forces, bad slides can have far greater consequences. In […]

Presenting with the iPad c/o Macworld

31/07/2012

by Joe Kissell, Macworld.com Jun 18, 2012 2:00 pm You can give impressive presentations from your iPad‚ and perhaps even leave your laptop behind‚ if you prepare well and know what to expect. It’s even easier to take to the podium with newer technologies like AirPlay mirroring and the latest version of Keynote for […]

Two Things I Learned From Steven Covey – via Ty Kilsel, Forbes RIP Mr Stephen Covey

18/07/2012

I didn’t know Dr. Covey. I met him once—several years ago at the wedding reception of a mutual acquaintance. I can’t remember if Dr. Covey was hosting the event at his home or if he was simply a neighbor, but I was introduced to him; and we probably shared a dozen or so words. However […]