Les Posen's Presentation Magic

[...] fan of, but he is one heck of a smart operator, recently promoted, and I believe mentored by Steve Jobs, especially during the iTunes music rollout. What this means for iWork is open for speculation. [...]

[...] memory serves me correctly, the last time Microsoft took to the stage with Apple in the form of Steve Jobs — happy birthday, Steve — it was in the form of Roz Ho, from the MacBU showing a [...]

[...] market and compete head to head with Microsoft, thus revealing they haven’t seen or heard Steve Jobs’ metaphors of trucks and cars, and a post-PC world, nor do they understand the term &# [...]

[...] “. Apple, in one of its most successful advertising campaigns which commenced soon after Steve Jobs’ return to the company he founded, used the phrase “Think Different” in an [...]

[...] If you’ve attended a workshop or seminar of mine, whether about presentation skills or technology or health, you’ll know I sooner or later introduce something about [...]

[...] guy and C-level coach. Here’s a section of his LinkIn entry: Specialties Customized Presentation Skills training and presentation skills mastery, Automotive Marketing and Advertising expert, [...]

[...] analyses. However, what each also has in common, sadly, is the generally poor quality of presentation skills. The irony is that while each emphasises the empirical base of the science, few [...]

[...] Katie Floyd for their Mac Power Users podcast on the 5 x 5 podcast network. Our subject was Presentation Skills and workflow, … Continue reading → [...]

[...] . I don’t know anyone who leaves Keynote there, myself included. Which leaves desktop Keynote users to ask: : “Whither Keynote? You’ve not been updated for more than three years, so [...]

[...] significant improvements, bringing them closer to the capabilities of the desktop versions. Keynote users, which we can guess are growing in number to judge by the sales figures Apple publishes on the [...]

[...] – attitude to the consumer. But I also predicted much gnashing of teeth from said Keynote users would parallel our colleagues in the Final Cut Pro sector who had hoped for further [...]

[...] In a previous blog post, I sympathised with Keynote users who’ve upgraded from their tried and true 32-bit Keynote 5 to the latest 64-bit Keynote [...]

[...] scrolling through the popup movie and the highlighting or calling out of the object on the Keynote slide as it become the front object in the movie. It’s not pretty or that accurate, but you& [...]

[...] even Group 1, Group 2, etc. Combine that with less than stellar manipulation of layers on a Keynote slide and you have a lot of frustration at your finger tips. Not enough to send me over to [...]

[...] that I had used his video in my talk. I then found out he was a local teacher. Below, is my Keynote slide where I introduce his short video, created entirely in Keynote. I introduced the video by [...]

[...] and intelligence. And so to bring some entertaining weight to that, I show the audience a Keynote slide which visually demonstrates movies with the word “heart” in their title, while [...]

[...] story. 4. Smart builds – I think these are dead and buried. Too hard to use well, the Keynote team acknowledged as much to me when I met with them a few years ago, and they expressed [...]

[...] ” while wiggling green or red lights in dizzying circles. When I visited Apple’s Keynote team in Pittsburgh a few years ago, I made it a special point to discuss the need for the team to [...]

[...] the pulsing heart. By the way, I showed this slide with another 10 or so pulsing hearts to the Keynote team in Pittsburgh and it looks like one can now take a png file of the heart and use the “ [...]

[...] was released. Now it is a very competent app., and I expect even more feature matching (with desktop Keynote 5) when the iPad 3 is released soon with its beefier CPU and graphics. So, with my worst [...]

[...] lamented the lack of surprises at this event, there were several unexpected signs that desktop Keynote hasn’t been forgotten, given its last significant update was January, 2009. 1. I’ [...]

[...] for iOS6 and now 7, we got our first clue that an interface change was on its way for desktop Keynote. Because we move objects around iOS screens with our fingers – we actually & [...]

[...] to Noise Industries‘ FxFactory for examples which could find their way into a Keynote Pro should it adopt such a modular system. While it’s nice to see a supporting ecosystem of [...]

[...] creation devices will drive Keynote further. There may be a surprise awaiting us with a Keynote Pro with a look and feel of Apple’s Pro software like Final Cut and Aperture (we can [...]

[...] blog more than a year or two. I have previously written that all the wishing and hoping for a Keynote update might produce an Oscar Wilde epithet: There are only two tragedies in life: one is not [...]

[...] – now exist on both platforms with an extremely similar feature set. I downloaded the Keynote update, now in V1.6, with the most important and obvious additions being  the near match between [...]