Presentation Summit
Date Created: March 26th 2010
Last Updated: March 26th 2010
05/21/2013 10:03 PM
Presentation Summit 2013: Conversation with Rick Altman
Rick Altman is a presentation consultant based out of Pleasanton, CA. Rick has been hosting end-user conferences since 1989, and is well known as the host of the annual Presentation Summit conference. He has a strong sense of the needs of the presentation community. Rick has authored 15 books on presentations and graphics, including Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck. In this conversation, Rick discusses the upcoming eleventh edition of his Presentation Summit conference, to be held in September 2013 in Fort Lauderdale.
10/24/2012 07:22 AM
Presentation Summit 2012 and 2013: Conversation with Rick Altman
Rick Altman is a presentation consultant based out of Pleasanton, CA. Rick has been hosting end-user conferences since 1989, and is well known as the host of the annual Presentation Summit conference. He has a strong sense of the needs of the presentation community. Rick has authored 15 books on presentations and graphics, including Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck. In this conversation, Rick discusses the just concluded tenth edition of his Presentation Summit conference -- and the next conference to be held in 2013.
10/14/2012 11:00 PM
Kristin Thompson at the Presentation Summit 2012
After a photo session showing the events of the past three days, Rick handed over to Kristin Thompson, the keynote speaker for Wednesday morning. Kristin, who is based out of Portand, Oregon did a session that discusses memory power, and how it can help you get ahead in your life and career. She explained that memory as a skill is not typically something inherited by your genes, but developed using techniques.
10/12/2012 09:05 AM
Carmen Taran at the Presentation Summit 2012
Carmen Taran's session on attracting attention was the keynote for Tuesday morning. Although she used the term "seduction" a lot during the session, what Carmen actually meant was seduction of another kind -- to be used in scenarios related to both personal and business lives. So why did she use the term "seduction" rather than just "attraction"? That's because Carmen was inspired by a book called The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. After reading the book, Carmen became intrigued by the concept, if only for "research" reasons. According to Carmen, Neil Strauss, the book's author applied the principles he explains to 13,000 people of varied races and nationalities. In fact, when he applied these principles for a year, he ended up collecting 2000 phone numbers!
10/09/2012 10:57 AM
Jim Endicott at the Presentation Summit 2012
Jim Endicott started his keynote with a video clip shown during the Presentation Summit 2008 -- the video showed the conference host, Rick Altman as a candidate for the post of the US President. He suggested Rick could do it again for the upcoming 2012 election. Be it 2008, 2012, or even all the years that this conference has existed, Jim admitted that one of the important things of being in this conference for so many years is that you gain perspective. Over the years, the conversation in the conference has started to evolve beyond basic PowerPoint to advanced stuff and evolving presenting technologies. He then wondered if presenters are communicating better today? They may have these great visuals, but do they have something substantial to say?
10/08/2012 11:21 AM
Chris Bliss at the Presentation Summit 2012
Rick Altman officially opened the Presentation Summit 2012 today. After reminiscing about all the PowerPoint Live and Presentation Summit events over the last decade, he handed the stage over to Chris Bliss, a well known comedian to present Monday morning's opening keynote.
10/07/2012 08:51 PM
Crash Courses at the Presentation Summit 2012
The annual Presentation Summit started yesterday with the evening reception, and a staff event later -- but the actual sessions only start tomorrow on Monday. Today, being Sunday was the day for extra sessions (called optional crash courses). These crash courses are more detailed than the typical conference sessions, and also have fewer attendees -- thus almost anyone who attends these sessions gets one-on-one attention from the speaker -- these extra sessions are charged over and above the conference cost, and are certainly worth attending if you can arrive a day earlier. This year, there were three extra sessions.
07/18/2012 10:56 PM
Presentation Summit 2012: Conversation with Rick Altman
Rick Altman is a presentation consultant based out of Pleasanton, CA. Rick has been hosting end-user conferences since 1989, and is well known as the host of the annual Presentation Summit conference. He has a strong sense of the needs of the presentation community. Rick has authored 15 books on presentations and graphics, including Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck. In this conversation, Rick discusses the tenth edition of his Presentation Summit conference.
11/04/2011 12:31 AM
Nick Morgan at the Presentation Summit 2011
After a photo slide show by Rick Altman, Wednesday morning at the Presentation Summit 2011 graduated to Nick Morgan's keynote session. Nick started his session by stating that the only reason to give any speech has to be to change the world. He discussed working on a speech for the Governor of Virginia for a decennial commemoration of the Vietnam war. During his research, Nick found a book that contained poignant letters from soldiers at war. During the actual speech, the Governor threw away his papers and read letters from the book. The last letter he read was about a lieutenant who was writing to his daughter he had never seen, and he never lived to see her. In a way, the Governor that day did something to change the world.
10/19/2011 03:21 AM
At the Presentation Summit: Conversation with Joy Miller
Joy Miller, a technical writer for more than 16 years (12 at Microsoft), lives in the Seattle area of the state of Washington. She writes help documentation and produces how-to videos for Microsoft Office PowerPoint. You can find her industry-related posts on a regular basis at the PowerPoint Blog. In this conversation, Joy discusses the just concluded Presentation Summit.