80+ Free PSD Web UI Elements For Download. Are Your Presentations Powerful Or Pathetic? 4 Persuasive Presentation Preparation Tips. Over the past month, I attended three conferences.
Each one brought together some of the greatest minds in B2B sales and marketing. Sadly, some of their presentations distracted us from their important messages. A chronic case of PPD (Pathetic Presentation Disorder) surreptitiously sabotaged their agenda. PPD symptoms abound at technical and B2B conferences. According to Jerry Weisman, presentations coach and author of Presentations in Action, "The way that most business people rehearse their presentations is by clicking through their PowerPoint slides and saying something like, "'OK, with this slide I'm going to say a bit about our sales revenues...and with this one, I'll talk about our path to profitability...and then I'll show a picture of our lab and talk a little about R&D. " Jerry, I feel your pain when I am sitting in the audience! Lisa interviews Guy Kawasaki on the keys to enchanting presentations - 4 1/2 minutes 1. 2. 3. 4. Copyright 2011, Lisa Nirell.
[Image: Flickr user koke] The Bitterroot Footage. 10 Free EBooks for Web Designers. Several weeks ago we published a post that told you about 10 free online books for web designers.
We received lots of positive feedback from many of our readers who appreciated the great information, but one common question was, “Is there a PDF version?”. It turns out people really like their PDF’s, but unfortunately, that group of free books only had online HTML versions. So I set out on a quest to find more free books for web designers, but this time I made sure each had a PDF version. The following ten books contain a wide variety of valuable information for web designers, ranging from HTML5 to a guide for managing your time. There’s plenty here to keep you busy reading for a while.
Introduction to Good Usability This guide is especially handy if you haven’t done a lot of webdesign yet or if you are involved in webdesign but don’t do any of the real work. How To Be Creative Why design? What designers offer to clients is a way of thinking. HTML5 Quick Learning Guide The Woork Handbook. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use. Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.
Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably needs to experience? Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably needs to experience?