WEDNESDAY JULY 1, 2009

How Decker Made Me Different

Spending the day at Decker was delightful. Shortly after arriving, the transformation of my delivery techniques was well underway.
The meeting started at 9 a.m. in their San Francisco office. Their office is in a first-class building that is inspirational and professional. The path to their front door walks you through a zen-like garden with a [...]

Topic: Delivery, Diary, Technology, Video
Tags: audio, communication, decker, development, kelly decker, training

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FRIDAY JUNE 26, 2009

Judging Books by Their Covers

DOUG NEFF

Ready for a quick design lesson?
Click on the picture to go to Joseph Sullivan’s list of Favorite Book Covers for 2008. (That one’s my favorite, by the way.)
Now, imagine you wrote a book this year. And your book just entered the market, along with the 172,000 other books published in the U.S. that year.1
And it’s [...]

Topic: Design
Tags: communication, Design, messaging, Visuals

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TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2009

Britain’s Best Young Speaker

JILL MARTIN

So the BBC is doing this new reality show called “The Speaker,” and guess what? They’ve asked Nancy to be a member of the team of expert communicators who share their insights and experience with the candidates!
Think of the show as American Idol but for high school-aged kids who think they’ve got what it takes [...]

Topic: Diary
Tags: communication, inspiration, presentation, speaking

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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28, 2009

Interacting with Slides

JERRY WEISSMAN

Nancy Duarte’s slide:ology is five months old and still, deservedly, going strong. Long may it wave.
Although Nancy and I have worked together for many years, I still keep going back to slide:ology for her wonderful creative ideas. I’m particularly taken with the structure of her Chapter 11, “Interacting with Slides.” One of the basic rules [...]

Topic: Delivery
Tags: communication, Delivery, presentation, speaking

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Election Day!

NANCY DUARTE

After costing us more than the GDP of a small developing nation, election day has finally come and gone. A political cartoon seems in order. After all, cartoons have been used for persuasion and visual story telling for centuries. In my humble opinion, the best cartoons need the fewest words. The best ones are also [...]

Topic: Design, Message
Tags: audience, communication, metaphors, visual

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