Excellent Presentations

Slideshare.net ran a contest for user-submitted “world’s best presentations.”  Here are the top three presentations.  Notice that none use PowerPoint templates or default fonts or bullet points.  All use full-bleed images (i.e., full screen) and just enough text to tell the story.  (Hat tip to Guy Kawasaki)
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Farewell, Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch, who taught computer science and virtual reality modeling at Carnegie Mellon University, died of pancreatic cancer yesterday.  And odds are, you probably know that.  If you do, it is because of a remarkable presentation he gave last year as part of CMU’s “Last Lecture” series.  Speakers were asked, “If you had one last [...]

Recommended Reading for Business Communication Students

The semester is over.  Summer is here and students will be off to jobs, internships, weddings, and who knows what else.  It also means that they might have time to do something other than homework and textbook reading.  How about investing time in a good book or two?
In my business communication class, I referenced several [...]

Review of Johnny Bunko: A Presentation

Garr Reynolds has just posted an overview of Dan Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko in, of course, the form of a presentation.  The presentation has a manga feel to it, just like Dan Pink’s book.  Very cool.

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