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Getting Paid To Do Your Hobby

Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 11:57 AM by stevecla01
I count myself alongside The Beatles and Tiger Woods – not because I have anything close to the raw talent of any of them – but because we’re all paid to do our hobby. Like them I’m extremely fortunate of course and today I was reminded of how much I Read More...
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You Need slide:ology

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:53 PM by stevecla01
If you present at all in your job, you should get slide:ology . Even if you don’t it’s s great book that is beautifully presented (as you’d expect) and enormously practical. It’s backed up by a great website too with additional resources. O’Reilly kindly Read More...
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Microsoft OfficeLabs releases pptPlex

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:05 PM by stevecla01
Video: An Overview of pptPlex Wow the OfficeLabs guys are on a good run of late. Hot on the heels of SpeedLaunch they released pptPlex today. Taking inspiration from the Plex technology used in the Bill Gates’s TouchWall demonstration at the CEO Summit, Read More...
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Social Media: Evolution or Revolution

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:47 PM by stevecla01
| View | Upload your own   I'm sure many of you have seen this presentation given the amount of views it's had on SlideShare but if not, check it out. The only thing missing? The name of the author should be in the deck. He's wah17 Read More...
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Presenting Bill Gates

Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 6:09 AM by stevecla01
  Bill Gates spoke at the World Economic Forum last week on a topic he called Creative Capitalism . It has had (and will continue to have) lots of coverage, not least as some will find the topic slightly ironic coming from Bill. It doesn't matter Read More...
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The last lecture

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 6:26 PM by stevecla01
A dying professor's last lecture. My favourite part of Randy's advice - be good at something, it makes you valuable thanks to Katie for tipping me off to this video Read More...
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Getting Past The Tough Questions

Posted Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:36 AM by stevecla01
In my last post on presenting , I meant to mention the Question Conundrum and added as an update but then deicded it was worthy of a post of its own.   Q: What is the Question Conundrum? A: Most people hate the thought of presenting as they'll be Read More...
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Dilbert on being a good presenter

Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:32 PM by stevecla01
More quality from Scott Adams today on Christmas Eve. I was chatting with a good friend last week and discussing how presenting has become the part of my job at Microsoft I enjoy the most. I think it's a combination of the performance part of it and the Read More...
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Change The World Or Go Home Presentation

Posted Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:33 AM by stevecla01
| View | Upload your own   Nope, not one of mine...or Hugh's . I was reading some stuff over on PSFK and came across this presentation . Nice preso...even nicer title :) Read More...
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SMS at Web 2.0

Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:37 PM by stevecla01
| View | Upload your own   Great presentation - sorry I missed the actual delivery now! Read More...
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CompTIA Breakaway keynote

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 7:43 AM by stevecla01
| View | Upload your own   A few kind souls emailed asking for my slides from the CompTIA Breakaway keynote I did last week. Uploaded to slideshare. Thanks again to Matthew Poyiadgi, VP of EMEA for inviting me to talk Read More...
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StartupsLive slides

Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 2:56 PM by stevecla01
Sorry for the delay - I finally got around to publishing my slides from Startups Live in Bristol this week. Still looking for that PPT add-on that lets me publish direct to Slideshare. These slides are a good example of slides that are not that useful Read More...
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What is Enterprise 2.0?

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:01 AM by stevecla01
Thanks to John Westworth for pointing me to this great deck on Slideshare - another one! I'm not sure I agree with Charlie's software choices but at least he's still using one piece of Microsoft software. Regardless, the points he makes hold true. It's Read More...
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PowerPoint doesn't suck after all

Posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:44 PM by stevecla01
As I made my way through this slide deck I thought it was going to be another pop at PowerPoint as the reason for poor presentations. However, it finished with a different way. It didn't diss PowerPoint at all and instead made the point that content counts. Read More...
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Shopping for diamonds on Amazon

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:58 PM by stevecla01
At ease ladies....no wedding bells imminent :) I attended cScape's Customer Engagement Workshop today at The Brewery in London. A fine venue and a good cast of speakers. Ian Jindal of InternetRetailing.net talked about diamond shopping on Amazon as an Read More...
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