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Sales People — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:45:45 -0000

Another pearl from the archives! The title of this post is a subtle play on "Great Expectations" (in my book anyways, LOL!!) and seeing Apple's Steve Jobs as the first video clip is sooooo apt. The man is really a marketing genius and Apple must be having sleepless nights as to who is going to fill his shoes when he ultimately has to depart.

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Jessica Haralson — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:12:29 -0000

Great advice, Chris. I definitely agree that PowerPoint is overused. My biggest pet peeve is when people *read off of their Powerpoint presentation* instead of actually, you know, *talking to people*.

And Steve Jobs? The man. He exudes charisma when he speaks. You can feel the gravitas coming off the YouTube clip. THAT'S inspirational.

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mikemcallen — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:06:18 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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kat — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:23:30 -0000

simply the best

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Rachel — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:48:47 -0000

Great compilation!

Can't wait for tomorrow!

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mikemcallen — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:46:09 -0000

oops forgot link.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs...

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mikemcallen — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:44:39 -0000

Chris-
I do think if you don't have passion you basically can loose an audience quickly. Practicing till you know it up and down is the key. Play off the audience. Feel the pulse. If it isn't there infuse that passionate to tachycardia levels.

Think about maybe a big entrance: pyro? opening video (like zefrank) maybe some corporate theater, skit, dancing girls?

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Paul Gibler — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:29:20 -0000

Hi Chris,
I author a blog called PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques. One of the resources I compile and periodically upload to the blog is a resource listing now in Rev 4 - http://connectingdots.typep.... Your readers might find it interesting.

Re: Great Presentations

Tommy Vallier — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:19:46 -0000

Neil Gorman's 'Broken Toasters' at PAB07 was good. http://neilgorman.org/?p=192

Was his first time presenting, too.

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Daniel — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:23:42 -0000

Dick Hardt's is derivative of Larry Lessig's style (I mean that literally and not to take anything away from Dick). In addition to the Lessig talk mentioned above, check out http://www.youtube.com/watc....

These talks are a lot of fun to give. Chris Adamson asked me to recreate one that I gave in Brussels at the Jini community meeting. You can find my attempt here: http://today.java.net/pub/a...

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Frank Roche — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:53:49 -0000

Hi Chris,

These two links bring over a 1,000 people a day. There's no limit to curiosity about great presentations.

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Jackie Vesci — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:54:55 -0000

Also, since the last presentation I listed lasts 48 minutes, here is a great one under 5 - "Web 2.0 Explained": http://lessig.org/blog/2007...

-Jackie

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Jackie Vesci — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:48:22 -0000

Chris,

I enjoyed watching the presentations you listed, and I've never seen any of them before. My favorite presentation of all time was author/blogger/marketing guru Seth Godin at eBay Live 2007 in Boston. You can watch his presentation to Google entitled "All Marketers are Liars" here: http://video.google.com/vid...

Look forward to seeing you again Saturday for PodCamp Pittsburgh 2!

-Jackie

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Jake McKee — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:34:04 -0000

Yeah, agreed on Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0. Absolutely brilliant. His was one of the first times ever that I thought "You really couldn't have done this *without* powerpoint".

One of the most moving presentations I've seen yet was another Ted Talk: Bill Clinton.

http://www.ted.com/index.ph...

Love or hate him, you can't argue with his style.

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Laura Athavale Fitton — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:32:02 -0000

Nice Chris, and thanks for the tag. Quick thought -- be kinder to the ums and let them die a gentle death. It's only that a lot of attention to them can make it worse/throw the presenter off. When your brain reaches for an "um" filler try silence instead. Obviously I have lots more ideas where that came from, but that's why I blog :-). Hope there's video of your presentation (hint hint).

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Connie Crosby — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:22:21 -0000

Hah! Just realized I duplicated one of your suggestions. Obviously Dick Hardt's presentation has legs....

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Donna Papacosta — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:13:19 -0000

What an excellent collection and links!
Thanks, Chris. YOU ROCK!

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Connie Crosby — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:12:40 -0000

The TED Talks are very inspiring.

I enjoy hearing Malcolm Gladwell talk. His presentation voice is the same as his writing voice. Here he speaks about spaghetti sauce:
http://www.ted.com/index.ph...

Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth was amazing.

I have especially been influenced by Dick Hardt's presentation at OSCON 2005 on Identity 2.0: http://identity20.com/media... Very slick, well put together, single concepts per slide. Obviously a lot of preparation went into creating this clear presentation. (And anyone who has been influenced by Cryptonomicon is cool in my books!)

Cheers,
Connie

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mikemcallen — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:53:34 -0000

Chris -
One of my favorite talks---

In an emotionally charged talk, Majora Carter explains her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx.

http://www.ted.com/talks/vi...

Mike

Re: Great Presentations

Amie Gillingham — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:40:37 -0000

Great compilation of links! Definitely looking forward to how you present your presentation on presentation this weekend. See you in the 'Burgh!