On Feb 5, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Les Posen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Many of you know about TED and perhaps use some of the videos in your
> own trainings.
>
> It's on again right now, and my mate Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen)
> is attending, so I'm sure I'll have some interesting things to pass to
> the group once it's over.
>
> But on Nancy Duarte's blog, she writes that TED commissioned her group
> to assist TED speakers with their presentation design. I'm guessing
> we're going to see a lot more Keynote in action once the videos start
> rolling in...
>
> Here's her URL: http://blog.duarte.com/2009/02/duarte-ted/
>
>
> Also, I gave an all day workshop yesterday to Seventh Day Adventist
> ministers and youth leaders, using Day 1 of my Macworld Powertools as
> a basis.
>
> This is a VERY conservative group, so much that one came up during a
> break after I'd discussed the evolution of the brain to "remind" me
> that the group consists of "radical creationists" who believe in a
> literal interpretation of The Bible - ie, evolution is a crock. I
> almost stopped and trotted out Bill Meaher's Religilous to get some
> interesting conversation going, but held back on that impulse.
>
> BUT at the end of the day, many came up (75 in attendance) and said,
> "You didn't use Powerpoint, did you?" and "Is your program only for
> the Mac?" I think I created about a dozen new Mac users... this was a
> combination of Keynote 08 and 09 slides, but I suppose if you're a
> long time Powerpoint user it may likely look like Keynote 15, it's so
> far ahead of what they're used to seeing and doing.
>
> When I come up for air from other projects (my work has been
> discovered back home!) I'll blog about it and Macworld 2009.
>
> Les
>
>
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