Somehow I only recently started to follow
Gary Vaynerchuk who built a great personal Internet brand through
"live" wine tasting sessions recorded to video (most wine critics taste offline and publish later online or in newspapers). This despite being reasonably hooked up to social media, and - more importantly - being a
wine enthusiast. Anyhow, better late than never.
I stumbled on one of his presentations (September 2008):
A very passionate presentation. Not a single PowerPoint slide here. Very memorable and entertaining. Still, (a very small "still"), you can see that Gary is used to presenting to a video camera, rather than to a live audience. But he is forgiven, I will seek out more of what he has to say.
His messages in this video:
- Stop doing anything you do not want to do, but do something you are passionate about right now and go all the way, give it your full shot
- Build your brand and presence on every tool you possibly can find
- Realize that you are building your legacy now: this is the first generation that will experience that anyone can see everything you ever did, forever (including your children whom you want to be proud of you)
- Connect, interact with people to succeed
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It shows what graphics and presentation design is all about, a creative process working with shapes and colors and a blank piece of paper. Computers make it easier to work, but in our mind we should go "back to basics" now and then.
Go to this Flickr stream for more detailed/hi-res images. Agency Bates141. Via Zurb.
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Via Digital Inspiration
Project page here, found via Haaretz. An earlier post about face "recognition" here.
Update: if you like these type of visualizations, Mashable has a whole stack of them, including videos, in this post.
Presentations to analysts and investors are very important for publicly traded companies: they have a direct impact on the share price.
I think that the illustrations are beautiful, and the story is really interesting. However unlike the case of Google Chrome, I do not think that the comic format does a lot to add to delivering the message of this book. Neither Joseph Lambert nor Steve Hamm are to blame (on the contrary the art work and the story are great). The Google Chrome book confirms that comic graphics can do a great job of explaining complex technology. A historical time line simply leaves less room for creative expression.
For more about Alan Kay and his ideas see this video at TED, the source of my inspiration for this blog post.
Big PowerPoint files are becoming an increasingly big problem. Yousendit is a convenient service that allows you to send very large files. You upload a file to the server, the recipient receives an email with a link to download it. FTP without the hassle.
Via strange maps, which also has a chart overlaying the 2 maps. I actually think that visually, leaving the 2 charts separate looks better, keepin the ancient look and feel of the 1860 map intact.
These ads do a great job in visualizing a state of mind (maybe in the current situation, people have less of these thoughts though). These type of images are good ice breakers in a presentation, but because they attract so much attention, I would follow with a black/white empty screen afterwards to get the attention back on you, the presentator.
