Webinar: Creating Powerful Presentations with Nancy Duarte
June 18, 2008 – 9:16 amWow. What a session. In our largest webinar to date, Nancy Duarte, principal of Duarte Design and one of the guru’s behind Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth presentation , took over 135 people through her advice & thoughts on how to create powerful presentations.
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Creating Powerful Presentations
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Presentation Resources
During the webinar Nancy mentioned several online resources which we’ve included here below for your reference.
- Nancy Duarte
Book: Slide:ology | Site: http://www.duarte.com - Garr Reynold’s
Book: PresentationZen | Blog: http://www.presentationzen.com - Speaking.Alltop
- Slideshare (Join the Slideshare VizThink Group!)
- Google docs
- Anime in PowerPoint
- Games in PowerPoint
- Knitting blog
What’s Next?
Next month we’ll be turning our focus to Mind Mapping - we’ll have another Question of the month, along with another great webinar with some leading Mind Mapping practitioners. We’re just nailing down the final details and will have an announcement in the coming days.
In the meantime, if you want to get a jump on the Question of the Month, start thinking about the unique uses of Mind Maps that you’ve come up with or seen…
Discussion & Comments
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29 Responses to “Webinar: Creating Powerful Presentations with Nancy Duarte”
Thanks for that. That cleared up a lot of things for me. I would see great presentations and not understand why they where better. Now I do so I can duplicate it.
By the way, how was the multiple clips setup? I haven’t seen that before.
Thanks
By Jeremy Luebke on Jun 24, 2008
Wow, this is so awesome. Thanks so much for putting this together. You definitely got a new subscriber!
By Dean on Jun 24, 2008
Nancy, I want to give your daughter, Rachel, a standing ovation for her most imaginative PPT version of Little Red Riding Hood.
As the author of The Say It with Charts Toolkit and SIWPresentations, (take a look at my website) I’d very much like to create a similar approach to say, The Cinderella, Story so I can use it in a fun way in the training that I do, which often discusses PPT. My thought being that PPT is a superb tool, the problem is the way it’s used, mis-used, and abused.
I would be sure to give Rachel credit and mention your services as well whenever I use it and I want to make sure it’s OK with you.
By Gene Zelazny on Jun 26, 2008
Jeremy,
Chris from the VizThink Team here:
Glad you liked our webinar recording and the way we manage our video content!
To keep this short, I’ll leave out the process for how we capture the video, edit it into clips and process it for web delivery. Although, the short version is: use Camtasia.
So, how do we show a list of clips? Well, that is all managed via an XML playlist that the video player we chose was designed to load.
There are several different ways to get a similar result with this particular player, but in our case, we use this file to call up a list of individual FLV video files and associate the Clip #, Title and Length with the video.
For us, generating this file is a manual process, but it does not take much time with a few fancy tricks in Excel. And yes, there are several ways to automate the generation of this file/ XML data, but for our needs, some cut and paste is just fine.
So, what makes it all work? Some open source code called JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player . Basically, it is some java script and a Flash object that leverages Flashvars, java, XML and a various other languages/ protocols to be a very flexible and easy to configure media player. In fact, they have even branched out and released a player for Microsoft Silverlight content.
In my opinion, this is a very important piece of web scripting that had its fair share in the web video revolution that took place right around the same time many of the big video sharing sites sprung up ( I’m sure that conjures up lots of things with ‘tube’ somewhere in the name ).
Another amazing thing is, for non-commercial entities, this media player is free under a Creative Commons License. Of course, in our case a small, one time fee got us a truly great tool.
You can read more about the FLV player and playlists here:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Supported_Playlists
Hope this helps!
By Chris Pascucci on Jun 28, 2008
This really was a good presentation. I’m going to buy the slide:ology book now.
Saw that the file is downloadable in audio format. Any idea how to get the slides themselves downloaded onto an iPod?
By Dan Mandle on Aug 5, 2008
Hi Dan,
Unfortunately, Nancy’s slides were not posted anywhere for download. However, many of them can be found in her upcoming book.
–tom
By VizThink on Aug 5, 2008