Nov 14th, 2007
Presntations, PowerPoint, Intro Slides and Coeur D’Alene
I usually spend a good 30-60 minutes making an intro slide for each presentation I do. I figure that the intro slide will be up there on the screen for 15 minutes or so before the session starts and people seeing it can start to get a sense of the session and the presenter and how they fit in as an attendee. And frankly, it’s just fun to try and take something that is not intrinsically beautiful (PowerPoint) and make something pretty or interesting to look that is appropriately evocative. Sometimes it works better than others, and themes tend to run in stretches, but the effort is always made. Most times, I’ll post a screen shot of the slide to flickr and often use it here on the blog as well. Well imagine my happy surprise a couple of weeks back when I saw the web site the folks from Inland Northwest Council of Libraries (INCOL) that had done the work for me. Check this out!:
It’s a little silly and a little funny and says what we’ll cover and shows them who’s gonna be yapping at them for two hours. Fun! Thanks to who(m)ever whipped this little number up at INCOL. Nice work.
Oh, and btw, if you are in Coeur D’Alene this Friday, I still think you can get a ticket. If you’ll be there, pop in and say howdy!
Couldn’t resist playing with it just a little. New intro slide:
I was at the Santa Monica Library presentation that you gave. I just wanted to say thanks and thought that the info you gave us was interesting and useful. I was wondering about a site you told us about. It was the one that you could track all your favorite web pages. What was that called again? I know you are a busy man and this is sort of a silly question, I just wanted to try it out. Thanks!!
Carrie
ps- You should have stayed for the drum circle.
Hi Carrie,
Not a silly question at all! The site is delicious, which has a bit of a funky address. To see the sites I’ve tagged and favorited, go here:
http://del.icio.us/libraryman
There you can search by tag for sites and concepts we covered in our sessions.
That drum circle was pretty cool and while I’m bummed to have missed it, was glad I at least got to see a snippet of it as I left for the airport (that was such a great moment, btw, thanks!:)