I’m not a Mac-fanatic, but I like to watch Steve Jobs speak. But I didn’t think twice about his style or appeal until I started giving my own presentations. Somehow I’ll try to find the video version of his MacWorld keynote (I can’t even access the website at the moment). Here are a few links that have helped me understand presentation style.
When Ted and I were discussing the upcoming keynote, he showed me the Guardian article Behind the magic curtain, a fascinating peek into the preparations behind Jobs’ presentations written by Mike Evangelist who is now blogging and writing a book about his time at Apple.
Darren Barefoot mentioned Presentation Zen’s : Gates, Jobs and the Zen aesthetic which helped me understand why I like the Apple presentations.
In the comments on Darren’s post, Derek Miller left a link to his Commentary About Power Point and Presentations.
Liz Ditz pointed me to 43 Folders: Your best tip on doing presentations which leads to some interesting places if you try to follow all the trails…
2 responses so far ↓
1 Ed Hager // Jan 10, 2006 at 11:12 am
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/
2 Betsy Devine // Jan 23, 2006 at 9:46 am
Hi Lisa–This isn’t your style, but check out this video of Dick Hardt talking about digital identity at OSCON: http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/
I heard about it from Liz Lawley; Boing Boing also loved it.
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