My love affairs with intelligent devices has gone back well over a decade. It started when we trialled an early version of the Blackberry. It was nigh on impossible to contain my excitement at getting my email on something I could carry around in my pocket. Of course, a decade later and the devices are [...]
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When will you make my telephone ring?
Posted in presentation, Thoughts, tagged email, linkedin, manners, phone, smartphone on August 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Should I stay or should I go?
Posted in keynote, powerpoint, presentation, tagged linkedin on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the title is a bit misleading but for those of us who are wedded to using slide show software I thought it may be worth offering an alternative view. The Speakeasy event in central Manchester the other night demonstrated that quick presentations could be put together effectively in five minutes with no slide show. [...]
60 second suggestion: Stop making sense
Posted in keynote, powerpoint, presentation, tagged linkedin on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A slide should not really make sense on its own. It should exist for you to talk around. What exists on screen is something to act as an aide memoire for the viewer, something to link what you said and the way you make them feel with an image or a phrase. You should always [...]
60 second suggestion: highlighting area on a slide (Keynote)
Posted in 60 second suggestion, keynote, presentation, tagged linkedin on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This instructional video follows on from a question I got at a presentation the other evening. Note that you can view it at a resolution that is higher than the default 360p.
60 second suggestion: space, the final frontier
Posted in 60 second suggestion, keynote, powerpoint, presentation, tagged keynote, linkedin, powerpoint, presentation, space on July 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The viewable area of a slide can be cut by up to 40% depending on the template you use. The distraction caused by the use of banners, logos and background images also makes placing decent images that much harder. Consider using a blank slide. Completely blank. Then place your image. The temptation is to scale [...]
The cure for boredom is curiosity
Posted in keynote, linkedin, powerpoint, presentation, tagged deck, keynote, powerpoint, presentation, Reluctant rambler on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are few things in the world of presentations that are more onerous than the “deck”. For those of you that don’t know, the “deck” is the corporate starting point for presentations. It contains a number of slides and it is seen as a convenience having all that content in one place. That convenience only [...]
