Posts tagged "public-speaking"

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AWS re:Invent 2014 conference slide showing Constantin in a light blue shirt standing on stage. The slide title reads “What you’ll get out of this session” with five bullet points: A lower AWS bill, A more scalable, robust, dynamic architecture, More time to innovate, Real-world customer examples, and Easy to implement. A mountain with a flag icon appears in the bottom right corner of the slide.

3 slides everyone uses (but you should delete)

| In Career & Growth
| 7 minute read

In 2014, I was preparing my AWS re:Invent presentation on “Running Lean Architectures.” I had my slides ready: agenda, bio, resources. Then I stopped. Why was I presenting this in the first place? The answer: to help people save money on AWS. Not to check boxes on a corporate template. Not to prove …

A surreal artistic illustration showing three people in business attire walking across a large, colorful DNA double helix structure that serves as a bridge through a cloudy sky. The DNA strand displays vibrant rainbow colors including pink, orange, blue, and purple. Below, a small figure with an umbrella appears to be falling through the clouds. The scene has a dreamy, fantastical quality with soft pastel clouds in the background.

The 30-year-old trust formula that still runs the world

| In Career & Growth
| 10 minute read

”To me, you’re not just Systems Engineers—you are Speaking Engineers. I’ve got plenty of engineers working on great products. However, I need you to speak to customers and earn their trust in our technology.” That was Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, talking to a room full of technical profes…

A co-working space with someone presenting to a group

How to Properly Cut an Image From a PDF Into Your Presentation or Blog

| In Career & Growth
| 9 minute read

I give a lot of presentations to customers and I tend to create a lot of new slides for the presentation decks I use. I’m also a huge fan of Presentation Zen, the book and the blog, as well as Duarte Design’s blog, with their excellent slide:ology book. When giving technical presentations about computer hardware or software though, sticking to good presentation principles is tough at best.

But there are a few simple tips that everyone should follow when preparing a presentation, and I hope to collect a few of these in this new category. Today’s topic is simple, almost trivial, but powerful. And I see too many slides on an almost daily basis that violate some basic graphical principles: