I have attended a number of conferences, lectures and talks in the past two weeks and I’ve just reviewed my notes on the elements that irritated my eyes and ears in them. In no particular order, I’ve highlighted the problem first (with my thoughts in brackets): Speaking too fast (Trying to cram in too much, [...]
From the TEDxSummit in April 2012. Strong setup of the big-big screen for slides/vids and the speaker up on screen beside it. Really good use of PowerPoint by Rives, with great callouts and nice big fonts on his screen captures. Well-interspersed flat images, text, and moving images, lots for the eye to enjoy. He very [...]
I am still amazed every time I see a speaker, who obviously delivers presentations on a regular basis, standing up without a remote in their hand. I’ve written about this before I’ll do a post shortly on the reasons why you MUST HAVE one of these little gizmos; but for now let’s look at the models [...]
Mikko Hypponen presented at TED Global in Edinburgh last week. I’ve long been a fan of Mikko’s due to an involvement in the Infosec space some years ago and follow him on Twitter. so when I saw him mention that he had locked his slides for TED: I retweeted it with some amusement, wondering what [...]
I was invited to give a deepdive talk on presentation skills at Dotconf 2011 here in Dublin. The deepdive format is great – you give two 30 minute talks to two different audiences and based on the assumption that people know the basics of the topic – hence deepdiving. I drilled in on a number [...]
The always-extraordinary Marco Tempest from this year’s TEDx Tokyo. Watch it once and enjoy it. Magic Projection Live @ TEDxTokyo 2010 from Marco Tempest on Vimeo. RSS Readers may need to click through to the post Now watch it again and pay attention to how fluidly Marco interacts with the film. Think about how much [...]
Ric Elias was in seat 1D on US Airways flight 1549. Five magnificently expressed minutes. RSS Readers will need to click through to the post – it’s a TED thing, sorry.
Oh my god. Deb Roy receives a standing ovation at TED 2011 for an astounding presentation. He starts with the personal – the extraordinarily personal – and then zooms out to show the same tools analysing the wider world before coming back to a stunning finish that any parent in the room will just beam [...]
I was invited to Ignite Dublin #6 a few weeks ago and decided to do my PowerPoint-enhanced version of Cinderella. A lovely response from the audience and very kind tweets and links from Nancy Duarte, Guy Kawasaki, Linda Johannesson and many others to the video. The judicious application of bullet points and animations can enhance [...]
