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Re: Speak Schmeak: Are you giving the audience tools they can use?

Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:38:49 -0000

Hola, Lisa

Regarding productivity tools, I'd never replace Evernote with RTM. Actually, I use both. I use RTM to implement GTD and I use Evernote as the Archive part of the equation. Evernote is great to archive text information and even pictures and audio notes recorded as I walk. RTM is great to keep track of your lists. You can link Evenote's notes from RTM. You might use both, but never replace Evernote! :-)

Re: 8 Educational iPhone Apps for Small Business Owners

Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:02:11 -0000

Can anyone recommend the 10 iphone apps for slide presentations?

Re: The Anatomy of a Movement

Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:43:11 -0000

I highly recomend to see Derek Sivers' video at TED:

http://www.ted.com/talks/la...

It condenses everything in 3 minutes!

Re: Dealing with ugly corporate templates

Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:12:42 -0000

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the topic, Jan.

What I did in the past was to use two decks of slides: one to be given to the conference attendants, using the corporate template with logos, headers and footers, actually leaving a small space in the center for the hated bullet points, summing up, I gave them what they expected for the CD-ROM; but I used a totally different deck of slides to be projected on the screen, with full-screen photographs and graphics and little or no text. Sometimes I get reprimanded, but what the heck!, I prefer to apologize than to ask for permission.

Problem is that most marketing people who design corporate templates ignore absolutely everything about presentations and how to create sticky slides. They still believe a presentation is a document. And of course they impose their templates on everybody in the corporation. You face the dilemma of using them or being fired!

Re: Bold fonts as a last resort

Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:39:25 -0000

I recommend the reading of Stephen Kosslyn's book "Clear and to the Point" for this topic and many others of great help to PPT creators. For me it's been one of the most useful books on how to design slides.

Re: Calming down your presentation images (sequence)

Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:24:35 -0000

Good point. I fear going from one extreme to the other. From being overwhelmed by bullet point lists to being overcome by a non-stop stream of creative/stunning/funny pictures. We should look for balance in either case. The "zen" style is great, but it can be overused too.