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Mix06 and Powerpoint

Started by Fortes · 10 months ago

I’ll be speaking at Mix06 in Las Vegas this Monday — I’m giving a developer-focused overview of WPF (4:30 on Monday, if you’re interested).
One of the original goals (gimmicks?) for my talk was to not use Powerpoint — I didn’t want my ... Continue reading »

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  • "I hoped that not having Powerpoint would force me to come up with a gripping, unique talk that would win many awards, honors, an Oscar, presidential medal of honor, and possibly a pony."

    I think you should still strive for that pony. ;)

    Do you know when the Mix06 videos will be published? Sadly I wasn't lucky enough to get to go, so I'm gonna have to enjoy from the comfort of my office.
  • Erik: No clue about the video -- I'll post a link as soon as it's up though. PDC took about a month and a half.
  • Great, thanks. :)

    It's too bad they don't broadcast these live.
  • Maybe you can blast everyone away with a newstyle presentation. Take a look at presentation Zen or the very nice presentation from Andy Budd.

    You can find it at:
    http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationze...
    http://www.andybudd.com/

    (I couldn't figure out if i could use hrefs in this comment, maybe nice to hint that to the users)
  • Mark: I'm a fan of presentation zen (if you saw my PDC talk -- I love using non-verbose slides) ...

    Most of my talk will be demos and code -- so even if they slides don't blow people away, hopefully the code demos will :)
  • Reminds me of this (classic): http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

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