New presentation: "New media, New generation"
I'll be in Washington, DC from Monday to Wednesday next week to participate in a panel on new media. It'll also be my first presentation using the nifty new Cintiq! I thought I'd put it up on Slideshare and share it with all you folks… =) The current version's designed for in-person delivery, so some of the slides might look a little obscure. (If all else fails, you can do Powerpoint Karaoke.) I hope I can put up an audiocast after the event.
This was fun. It took me a while to figure it out, though. The presentation hinges on two pairs of pairs: the first set is new media = social media and new generation = net generation, and the second set is the 2×2 matrix. I only came across that while ironing handkerchiefs and playing with my speech topic out loud. Once that pattern floated up, everything else fell into place.
Part of the fun of making presentations is figuring out a natural pattern for the topic… =)
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Squee! Won Slideshare's Best Presentation Contest!
My introduction-in-verse won the Slideshare Best Presentation Contest Category for "About Me"! Which probably means that at some point, I brought a smile to the illustrious panel of judges: Guy Kawasaki, Nancy Duarte, Garr Reynolds, and Bert Decker.
I'm sure I'll put the iPod Touch to all sorts of good use!
I had a lot of fun making the presentation on my Nintendo DS. I've since then given to my mom so that she can do yoga, but I upgraded to the Cintiq 12WX and it's really fun to sketch on. Still, I feel very much like a fledgling artist:
As promised, I'll be sending some of my favorite presentation books to one of the lucky people who voted for me. Hello, Randell! I'm looking forward to sharing Presentation Zen and Back of the Napkin with you. =D
Squee!
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Weekly review: Week ending Aug 31, 2008
Lots of learning this week!
The Cintiq tablet I ordered from Vistek arrived the very next day. After learning way too much about X.org in the process of setting it up, I've gotten it to work as a tablet and as a second screen. Hooray! Someday I'll get GIMP and Inkscape to recognize pressure and the eraser tip, but for now, it's good enough.
I used the Cintiq to quickly process and layout the pictures we took during the vacation. The last time I made a photobook, I used Shutterfly's predetermined layouts. This time, I used the open source Scribus desktop publishing program to make everything from scratch. Now I just need to find a nice printer and binder who'll take a PDF…
New dish of the week: pad thai, from a mix. It was okay.
We borrowed some magazines from the library and I flipped through them to get an idea of things I might play with this fall. My wardrobe's already been tending towards warm earth colors, so maybe I'll try playing with metallics.
At work: propagated a few good ideas, including persistent chat rooms; worked on accessibility.
Love: W- is totally awesome. =) This week's reason: he hung up the memory scroll my friends and family had made for me before I left for Canada. =) Aww!
Next week:
It's 2:51 in the morning. I've just spent the last… umm… six hours getting the Cintiq mostly sorted out, and I have barely enough time to get enough sleep to be barely functional tomorrow.
But it's worth it.
Okay, it doesn't seem obvious from the quality of my drawing, but it's certainly fun…
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Please vote for my about-me/sitemap slideshow on Slideshare!
Only 7 days left for the Slideshare World's Best Presentation Contest, and I'd love it if y'all came out and voted for my about-me presentation–if only because I found a way to fit both Drupal and Emacs into my rhyming self-introduction! =)
It's only one minute and 25 seconds, and it'll probably make you smile. Plus, it's a (mostly) working sitemap, and how cool is that? 
The prize for this category is an iPod Touch, which (if I win it) I will promptly put to good use. After all, if I used my Nintendo DS to make a presentation, what might I do with something like the iPod Touch?
Honorable mention would get me a copy of Presentation Zen book, which I liked so much I bought it already, so I'd be happy to raffle it off and keep just the warm and fuzzy feelings that my fledgling sketching and writing skills got noticed. Want it? Leave a comment on this entry (just one comment is fine), and I'll pick a random commenter if I win the book.
In addition to either blog posts about doing interesting things with the iPod Touch or a chance at winning a free book, you'll also get the satisfaction of supporting a geek in an area dominated by graphic designers. =) (Not that graphic designers can't be geeks, of course.)
Anyway, please vote for my presentation! =) Voting ends on July 31, 2008.
World's Best Presentation Contest
