Lefthanded and Colorblind

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Presentation Zen

My "Trees" blog from yesterday elicited the brutal comment "Yawn" from my friend Howard Hughes. As I realize that most California-raised city boys like Howard, cannot appreciate the true-beauty of the great trees of the world, I'd have to accomodate my audience with something more lively.



Like video's of great presentaitions.



Recently, on Guy Kawasaki's blog Garage, he listed his Top Ten Presentations Of All Time. I viewed the videos and came up with my own list of four. They're worth watching and the first, Dick Hardt's presentation, I believe is an awesome display of presentation zen and presenters everywhere should mimic this style in every meeting and presentation they give.

So my personal top four list of the best presentations ever given (that I've seen):

Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 presentation at OSCON 2005.

Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech in 1963.

Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh in 1984.

Seth Godin talks about Marketing at Google in 2006.

1 Comments:

  • Sorry, I just can't get over the hurdle of "Seth Godin" and Martin Luther King, Jr. being put on the same list of pre-eminent (sp?) speakers...

    p.s. I will say that you have inspired me, albeit outside of your blog, to find and read an autobiography on me...what an amazing, amazing life...

    - HH

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:22 AM  

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