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Video: ?Want to see real passion in a speech… Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech… he was assassinated the next day.?..
Watch as he collapses into the chair at the end. Amazing man who gave his life for others.
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Worst PPT Slide Contest Winners | InFocus
Our “What Not to Present” contest was epic! Many thanks to all of you kind folks that submitted entries and spread the word about it. Many amazingly horrendous slides were sent in from all around the world. We laughed. We cried. We cringed.
Stay tuned for future blog posts where presentation experts Garr Reynolds and Ellen Finkelstein will use your egregious contest entries to give you some valuable, free advice on how to make presentation slides that wow audiences (for the right reasons).
UPDATE: Read Ellen’s presentation design advice here.
We randomly chose our top 3 winners, but then quickly realized that we had to do more. So we are giving away ANOTHER projector to the slide we thought was the most horrendous. We passed the ugliness around the InFocus offices and to many of our partners pandering for votes — and we have a winner!
First, our random winners:
1st prize (an InFocus IN1501 Projector): @broegge
2nd prize (an InFocus LiteShow III Wireless Adapter): @ChrisSnider
3rd prize (an InFocus Presenter RF Remote): @garyguate
And the winner of the worst slide is…
@tmiket for the “IT Modernization Roadmap” to the depths of hell. He wins an InFocus IN102 Projector!
Congratulations to the winners! We’re very happy you joined in on the fun.
Here are some honorable mentions:
From @edobejar
From @LMFDesign
From @Vordek
From @pinwale
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Brewhouse PR & Marketing – Creativity Q&A: Lee Jackson
Posted by James Allen
Creativity Q&A: Lee Jackson
Name: Lee Jackson
Occupation: Professional speaker to young people and adults
How do you define creativity? Creativity is in all of us its in our God-given DNA, its a spark that stops us in our tracks or a different plan to push through a challenge.
How creative are you? I reckon I am just as creative as everyone else. Although maybe i write down and action more of my ideas – as creativity is my job. If I have nothing to say that helps people then I don’t have a job. (note: I’m not some kind of guru by the way – just a normal bloke who likes to help people find the good stuff that will help them!)
Where do you get your ideas from? Anywhere and everywhere, for me it is literally about writing them down. Everyone should make notes, little scraps of paper and napkins in your pocket at the end of the day are a good sign. If you see something funny or different write it down, take a picture on your phone and file it away. I have a bank of stuff that is stories from everyday life which have happened to me and to others. I rarely get ideas from Google! We have to step away from our laptops everyday. I use whiteboards and blank notebooks a lot.
How important is feedback? If I am speaking to young people in schools – the feedback doesn’t come on a form – it is instant, I have told stories that really work totally by accident, and others I thought were great just weren’t. Try stuff out but wrap it in stuff that will rescue you if it doesn’t. Take calculated and rescuable risks.
Who do you admire for their creativity and why? I love comedy and so comedians always inspire me, i saw Rhod Gilbert last month on his “Rhod Gilbert and the cat that looked like Nicholas Lyndhurst” tour. He spoke and ranted for two hours and brought the whole night back to his opening line about his washing machine – he was amazing. I also love Milton Jones, Vic Reeves, Tim Vine, Les Dawson and many others. Ted.com is also fun – Sir Ken Robinson is great.
What is the difference between creativity and innovation? I’m not sure to be honest, but we need both, they are interlinked. Maybe innovation is the practical outworking of creativity? The most important thing is to get on with it. Spend less time talking and more time doing, then we have more time just to ‘be’.
Any other thoughts? Never use ruled paper, always use blank paper and if you are stuck then speak your ideas into a dictaphone and transcribe that. Enjoy your creativity, have fun with it, work smart not just hard – but above all be yourself, not an imitation of someone else.
Lee can be contacted via www.leejackson.org
Forgotten all about this – hope it helps.
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