I’ve had to sit though some presentations recently where when it came to visuals, the presenters took cramming information in the audience’s face to a whole new level. One one projector, we had the slide deck and on the other, a demo. Pretty innocuous there, outside the typical excess text and map shock-laden diagrams. What [...]
Oh, the last month. Preparing for a presentation that could determine the fate of a 2+ year long project required a ton of preparation. When preparing for a presentation of that magnitude, all of the best practices for effective slide design become that much more important. The hard work of several people over many months [...]
This last week, I got to give a presentation in the office. Time to get the conference room set up was short, but the slides were ready and I had practiced ahead of time. It was one of those days where there were back-to-back meetings with other responsibilities keeping me running around. It happens. It [...]
Lately, I’ve been having a blast reading Death To All Sacred Cows, by David Bernstein, Beau Fraser, and Bill Schwab. In it, the authors make the point in a very humorous way, to resist blindly doing certain things because over time, that’s the way it’s been done. We all encounter these bovines on a daily [...]
We’ve all heard that Americans fear public speaking more than death. There was even that line from “Seinfeld,” “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better [...]
In this post, I’m not going to focus on the products that were announced. Granted I can’t wait to see the changes to Keynote beyond what was discussed, but I’m more interested at this moment in Phil Shiller’s delivery of the keynote itself. Early on in his pitch, it was clear that he was nervous. [...]
