Tips for Remote Presenters

July 31, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

I was recently interviewed for an article on GigaOm’s Web Worker Daily site. Their articles specialize in giving tips to workers who telecommute. Since I’d recently delivered a webinar for VizThink, I pulled from that experience to contribute to the GigaOm article.
For the presentation, I draped off the windows of my office (because I felt [...]

Topic: Delivery
Posted July 31st, 2008 at 11:31 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: audience, webinar

4 Restaurants, 3 Days, 1 Chef

By Michael Moon

A few weeks back, my wife and I were in Washington, DC and, in addition to visiting the museums and monuments that characterize any such trip, we reprised our habit of diving into the local fare. We’re both fans of tapas, so the first night was an easy choice: Jaleo, owned and operated by chef [...]

Topic: Delivery, Diary
Posted July 31st, 2008 at 10:20 am by Michael Moon
Tags: audience, food, style, templates

A 30-Second Presentation

July 30, 2008 By Doug Neff

Yes, I counted myself among the more than 100,000 faithful Comic-Con attendees last week. And no, I didn’t wear a costume. Actually, aside from my work at Duarte Design, I give a workshop every year at Comic-Con called “Goal Setting for Creative Types” and I find it a great place to exercise my presenting chops.
My presentation happened [...]

Topic: Delivery, Message
Posted July 30th, 2008 at 1:45 pm by Doug Neff
Tags: Delivery, messaging, pitch, story

Community Is…

July 28, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

Duarte Design recently participated in design tennis sponsored by Ethos 3 hosted on SlideShare. Scott Schwertly pulled it together and posted the first slide. Each participant built on the concept proposed by Scott in the original deck “What is community”. It was an interesting study to see if complete strangers could build a story and [...]

Topic: Design, Message
Posted July 28th, 2008 at 11:49 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: concepting, sketching, slideshare

The Book is Finished!

July 18, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

The book is officially done. I finished editing it last week when I was on “vacation” and it’s at the printers as of 3pm yesterday. I can’t tweak it or refine it anymore. It will be printed with all remaining flaws still on its pages. Today I’m relieved only until Monday when I dig into [...]

Topic: Design
Posted July 18th, 2008 at 11:58 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: book, collaboration, PowerPoint, slide:ology