Sneak Peek: resonate Cover Design

The rumors are true… I’ve been hard at work on another book, and I’d like to give you a sneak peek of our first draft at a cover design.
After several internal brainstorms and sketching sessions, we ended up with these concepts.

We all felt that there was something special about the word resonate being made out [...]

Topic: Design, Diary, Question
Tags: cover, Design, draft, resonate

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News Alert: Bill Gates is officially redeemed from presentation purgatory

Wow, Gates did a great job at TED this year. Why is he suddenly a great communicator and presenter? What has driven his transformation? I think it’s because he moved from presenting about his job to presenting about his passion, and suddenly he communicates well. So, is it possible that we can be so passionate [...]

Topic: Delivery, Event, Strategy
Tags: Bill Gates, carbon, fireflies, S.T.A.R. Moment, TED

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Impressions of TED2010 so far…

It’s nice to be an attendee this year instead of running around the bowels of the Long Beach Performing Art Center supporting speakers. I gotta say, the presentations are of utmost caliber. There were only a couple so far were in desperate need of help.
For me, that is fantastic news. Many presenters have figured out [...]

Topic: Delivery
Tags: David Cameron, Day 1, Ester Duflo, Haiti, Jamie Oliver, TED, TED2010

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Steve Ballmer Could Make More Money if He Presented Well

I’m connecting some pretty broad dots here but even though he’s a billionaire, Reuters reported that Steve Ballmer made $100,000 dollars less last year than the previous one.
Interestingly, each of the next few Fridays, Distinction Services will be posting the results of their annual executive survey of the impact of presentations on an executive’s career. [...]

Topic: Business, Delivery, Strategy
Tags: launch, speech, steve ballmer, windows 7

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Favorite fan mail…that has made it through

I *heart* fan mail. There is nothing better than hearing from you guys. We’ve been getting so much mail that we’ve decided to take the load off by setting up specific accounts for different needs. Our goal is to stay better organized so we can respond to your questions faster.
If you’re interested in working with [...]

Topic: Diary
Tags: comments, e-mail, fan mail, info, slide:ology, training

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