About the community, by the community

Here’s a good example of changing the way we do things, by the always interesting Neil Perkin at Only Dead Fish, from an idea by the also always interesting Herdmeister. And like most good ideas, it’s blindingly obvious when you see someone else do it!

Basically Neil was due to present at a conference on the subject of community. So he crowd-sourced it. And ended up with 30 slides submitted by a range of people (including myself). And a rather good presentation.

You can see his thoughts on crowdsourcing a presentation, and then presenting it, plus his words which accompanied it.

Due to my choice of blog template, you might need to click through to slideshare to be able to read the text well. It’s worth doing to subscribe to Neil’s presentations, like the one I previously recommended.

Some presentation inspiration

Rather than trying to force a post on some topics which need more thought and research, or pretending I’ve spotted something where I can add value in my RSS feeds, I’m going to get back to some presentation work I need to finish, and leave you with some great inspiration for presentations:

1. Logic + Emotion blog by David Armano: Everything he does seems to combine between clarity and looking good.

2. Presentation Zen: Hardly a secret, but full of useful information and insight.

And lastly a great presentation by Neil Perkin which I thought I’d already shared but couldn’t find on the site just now.

It’s a pretty short starter list – so where do you find inspiration, advice, or useful tool for presentations?

My next post may be delayed…

As I’m up to my neck in Powerpoint, trying to distill my knowledge, and that I’ve gained from others, into one neat presentation…

In the meantime, why on earth is it so hard to integrate a Youtube video into Powerpoint? There seems to be two options. Either a lengthy way to link to it online, or ripping it and converting it to a suitable format offline. Either method is a pain.

On the bright side, there are some Youtube videos to show the methods, ironically enough.
For Embedding Youtube into Powerpoint 2003, see here. (credit reponzo01)
For Embedding Youtube into Powerpoint 2007, see here. (credit Maniactive.com)

And offline
Embedding offline Youtube into Powerpoint 2003, see here (credit reponzo01)
Embedding offline into Powerpoint 2007, see here. (credit Maniactive.com)