Fantastic slide deck from Ignite Sydney. Good food for thought on the need for diversity in computer circles, and what effect the “Computer Engineer Barbie” might/should have.
Work in progress
Starting to sketch out my talk for Ignite Bay Area 2, a scant 12 hours before the slides are due.
I am apparently no less prepared at 33 than I was as a teenager doing my homework.
The presentation I gave today at BaconCamp. Went over pretty well, I thought, even if it does violate all my usual rules about presentations! (Too many words on the screen!)
Slides from a vintage IBM sales presentation. I might do a presentation some time that *only* uses these for illustration.
Playing with Google Docs’s new Presentations module. This is the result of uploading a fairly complex 7Mb PPT file — the last revision of “Powerful Pointed Presentation” before I switched to Keynote. Can’t seem to find any way of having “notes” or “commentary” appear with your presentation, but the Jabber chat is pretty cool.
Slides for Chris Brogan’s talk on presenting from PodCampPittsburgh.
Good collation of presentation links and tips from Merlin Mann.
New version of Keynote lets you record a voiceover for your presentation, then export to YouTube. That’s worth the upgrade price right there!
Good breakdown of some of the things Steve Jobs does that makes him such a compelling presenter.
Good tips for presenting at conferences.
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In case anyone’s looking for them, the slides and (limited) notes from my talk at Ignite Boston last night.
Mildly amusing powerpoint-powered standup.
“Pioneered at the University of NSW, the research shows the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.”
Good tips on how to do your tech project demo. Should be required reading for anyone talking at WebInno meetings.
RandomBrainDump from BarCampBoston
Dell/IBM to Mac laptop ratio seemed to be about 80/20 in favour of PCs.
Monster did a great job of selling themselves. We only saw their “labs” area, rather than the cubicle farm I’m sure exists there, plus a tour of their network operations, to wow the geeks.
glenn’s notes on some of the frustation in the organisation of BarCamp sum up my complaints pretty well. Except I’d also add that the font on the name badges was too small.
Veracode sounds like it will be fascinating. Not sure how much of it is public knowledge, so I’ll keep my mouth shut for now. And I got to meet Dildog.
PB Wiki sucks salty dogs’ cocks in hell forever. Once you saved an edit, no-one else could edit the page for 15 minutes, because you “kept” the lock.
Bil Lewis gave a superb demo of his Omniscient Debugger for Java. He managed a great gotcha moment for the audience when his debugger crashed. “You should debug your debugger,” said a sarcastic audience member. “Good idea!” says Bil, as he shows that he was running the debugger inside a debugger all along. (That this debugger then crashed with a bug only marginally detracted from his showmanship)
The Reddit chaps rock. When the video for their presentation, Ingredients for Web 2.0 Success, is posted, watch it. It got the biggest reaction (and had the most crowded room) of any session of the weekend.
I had the pleasure of giving a ride back to Boston to Eric Skiff of Common Ground, a New York charity, looking to end homelessness. Not put a band-aid over it. End it.
The links I promised that I’d post from my session, Powerful, Pointed Presentations: Creating Passionate Users, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Presentation Zen and Really Bad Powerpoint. And thank you to Larry the Basset Hound for his cameo.
Best slide of ETech — From Clay Shirky’s talk on internet community behaviours.
Very attractive presentation by Shaun Inman (author of Mint) on the benefits of building an API into your webapp.
A really good summary of the best bits of Agile, XP, etc. plus some common sense. Turns a bit Perl-centric near the end, but that aside it’s an excellent read for software engineers.
A former Apple employee gives some insight into the lead-up to a Steve Jobs keynote.
Blog dedicated to getting your presentations up to snuff.
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