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Unsung heroes of Tech - a presentation

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:53:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nice to know...

10 unsung fathers of technology

Who's your daddy?

In the tech world, the inventor, originator or driving force behind a new product or technology is typically dubbed "father of the _______". As in Tim Berners-Lee, father of the Web. As in Vint Cerf, father of the Internet. As in Bob Metcalfe, father of Ethernet. Here, in honor of fathers everywhere, are some industry "fathers" you may not have heard of:

the seven steps of the sale

Sun, 18 May 2008 09:49:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This site is a nice resource site for a variety of business and HR inputs

Clip Source: www.businessballs.com

the seven steps of the sale

The original commonly used Seven Steps terminology is in bold. In recent years more sophisticated interpretation and application of the Seven-Step selling process requires the model to be expanded and interpreted with more subtlety and flexibility, as shown here:

preparation/planning/research/approach (using facilitative methods)
introduction/opening/approach/establish initial credibility
questioning/identify needs/ask how and what, etc/establish rapport and trust
presentation/explanation/demonstration
overcoming objections/negotiating/fine-tuning
close/closing/agreement/commitment/confirmation
follow-up/after-sales/fulfil/deliver/admin

The Evolution of PowerPoint

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:51:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As told by its inventor Robert Gaskins. Makes 4 interesting reading!

Clip Source: delivery.acm.org

Table of Contents

Lead-in
Introduction
Convergence and Confusion
Spare Formats
Author
Sidebar: Presentation Formats and PowerPoint

Presentations were nothing new when PowerPoint appeared 20 years ago. Most complaints we hear about presentations today were current then, too: ambiguous and repetitive bullet points, speakers reading their slides, no proper audience handouts, and more. PowerPoint didn't create any of these familiar ways to fall short. But I also hear a complaint that really is new with PowerPoint: that more and more business and academic talks look like poor attempts at sales presentations, swamped by gaudy visual ornamentation with no purpose or benefit related to the presentation. This has come about not simply through a mass failure of taste but as a result of a change in presentation technology made possible by PowerPoint.

Google Docs adds Presentation

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:39:46 GMT

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Clip Source: groups.google.com

Let's break out the champagne and celebrate presentations! Yes, you
heard correctly -- after a long period of waiting and wondering, we've
launched our Google Docs presentations feature.

What does this mean for us users?

Just like spreadsheets and documents, it means we can now share, edit,
and view presentations online in real time. Awesome!

No need to wait -- give it a try by clicking "New" > "Presentation"
from your Docs list.

Ready to dive in and become a presentations master? Cool -- just visit
the Help Center (docs.google.com/support ) and click the brand new
"Presentations" tab, to the right of the "Spreadsheets" tab.

Tags: google, presentation

Slide share FAQs

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:09:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.slideshare.net

What is SlideShare?
What kind of presentation files does SlideShare support?
I use a Mac! How can I upload presentations to SlideShare?
What is the maximum size of the presentation file that can be uploaded?
How can I give feedback for improving SlideShare?
I want to use SlideShare for a conference I'm organizing. Is this OK? Do organizations need special permission to use SlideShare?
Do I need permission to embed the slides on any blog?
Will SlideShare always be free? Do you plan to have a paid version with more features?
I want to know more about SlideShare. Who should I talk to?
I can't see the presentations. What's up with that?

Tags: presentation

Now you can sync narration with your slides on Slideshare

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:22:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.presentationzen.com

A couple of weeks ago Slideshare announced Slidecast, a new feature which lets you sync audio with slides you upload to Slideshare. This is a good step in the right direction. Slides alone are not something I get too excited about, but narration with visual support is something much better. There is some potential here. There are no transition effects available, but I do not see that as a huge problem since the effects are abused much of the time anyway. If you wanted to make a slide show set to music you would want to use something like iPhoto exported to QuickTime to get the emotion of fades, etc. (This is what I used last summer to create our Hawaii wedding slideshow). But for teaching something or reporting something, etc. in a straight forward manner, the simplicity of Slidecast's output works well. I think I'll be using it in future. Below you can see a sample bit I did very quickly to see if it works. It was buggy for me (beta) but I got it to work.

Tags: presentation

Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:56:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.presentationzen.com

Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic

As a follow up to yesterday's post on Bill Gates' presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind. I believe we can use many of the concepts in Zen and Zen aesthetics to help us compare their presentation visuals as well as help us improve our own visuals. My point in comparing Jobs and Gates is not to poke fun but to learn.

Tags: powerpoint