Presentation Skills

If You Present on a Mac, You Need These

Quick week­end post. Two appli­ca­tions that I find indis­pens­able for doing pre­sen­ta­tions from my mac: Caf­feine. Tiny (and free) pro­gram that sits in your menu bar to quickly let you pre­vent your com­puter from going to sleep or dim­ming the screen. Cam­ou­flage. Another tiny pro­gram that sits in your menu bar to quickly hide all the icons on […]

8 Questions to Prepare for a Job Interview

I’ve let myself down a lit­tle… being so busy, I’ve not had as much time to write as I’d like. I can’t believe I’ve already started my new gig (hav­ing tons of fun), and am about to leave on an 11 day hol­i­day to Europe. I thought I’d have so much time to write about […]

Hi, It’s Hollywood…

There’s a ton going on here at Progress, and a lot of it affects me. I’ve been par­tic­u­larly quiet, in part because the things hap­pen­ing aren’t nec­es­sar­ily what I’m able to speak about openly. It’s a judg­ment call of course, as I have no edi­tor but my own eth­i­cal con­science. In par­tic­u­lar, I’d like to […]

It’s Been a Crazy Week: Technology, Iaido, & Non-Profit Changes!!!

Really sorry I’m not blog­ging more! I wish I had time, but I’ve been quite busy. Next week looks to be even busier, as I am tak­ing a two day “power mes­sag­ing” course given by my col­league Rick. A few quick updates for the week: Tech­nol­ogy: David Linthicum and I have pub­lished an e-book on SOA […]

Goal of Presenting: Differentiate or Die

Yes­ter­day, I had the oppor­tu­nity to hear Yousef Kha­lidi from Microsoft talk about Azure. I think the pre­sen­ta­tion was weak, though I really appre­ci­ated the long and hon­est QA at the end of the ses­sion, and wish more pre­sen­ters had made time for one. In par­tic­u­lar Yousef missed a great oppor­tu­nity to edu­cate and dif­fer­en­ti­ate. By […]