Archive for the ‘Presentations’ Category

Digital Inspiration sums up the differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 and provides six related presentations which discuss Web 3.0 in detail.

Google Wave, a new type of communication tool, was unveiled at the Google IO conference yesterday. A combination of email, instant messaging, and many other collaborative features, this new application will be available to the public later this year. Additionally, Google plans to make the application Open Source. PCWorld asks Is Google Wave a Twitter Killer? and TechCrunch provides a detailed review of the new tool with plenty of screenshots. Below is the keynote from yesterday’s conference in which the application in fully demonstrated.

Are you looking for a few high-quality images to use in an upcoming presentation or art project? Take a look at this guide to 40+ Sources To Download High-Quality Royalty Free Stock Images by Daniel Adams of InstantShift.

And if you’re looking for free vector objects to use in your designs, you can check out 25 Best Sites to Download Free Vector Files from dzineblog.

Speaking expert Olivia Mitchell guest posts at Pistachio about How to Present While People are Twittering. This timely article discusses how the conference back channel can work for you, and is a must-read for those speakers preparing for conference season. the post is divided into the following sections:

• Benefits of the back channel to the audience
• What about the speaker?
• Managing the back channel

Also, for those still getting up and running on Twitter, Derek Halpern at Prevential has created an Ultimate Twitter resource guide organized into chapters of useful links and articles pertaining to the popular microblogging application.

• Chapter 1: Twitter for Newbies
• Chapter 2: How to Use Twitter Effectively
• Chapter 3: How to Increase Your Twitter Followers
• Chapter 4: Why Twitter Helps Bloggers (and How they Can Use It)
• Chapter 5: The Ultimate Guide to Twitter for Business
• Chapter 6: Here are the Best Twitter Marketing Resources… Period
• Chapter 7: Does Twitter Provide Any SEO Benefits?
• Chapter 8: Where Else Does Twitter Apply?
• Chapter 9: Twitter Case Studies: What are People and Companies Doing?
• Bonus Chapter: More Twitter Tips

Social media guru Chris Brogan offers speaking advice in his latest post, Make Better Presentations - The Anatomy of a Good Speech. If you have an upcoming presentation, you may want to stop by and check out these tips:

• Start with WIIFM
• What Is the Goal of a Presentation?
• Use a Framework of Some Kind
• Inspiration for Great Speeches
• Shop Your Work
• How I’ve Been Doing It

Cameron Moll at Authentic Boredom presents a guide to better conference speaking, providing detailed suggestions based on his own experiences over the last four years as a public speaker. The article’s guidelines are broken down into the following sections:

• Preparation
• Equipment
• On Stage: The Presentation
• On Stage: Q&A

I had the chance to present on Social Software, Online Community, and Libraries at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Staff Day event today. Here are my slides for anyone who would like to have a look. And the companion wiki for the talk can be found here.

Today I’ll be giving a half-day workshop at METRO, the Metropolitan Library Council here in NYC, these are my presentations for anyone who is interested in “open” topics. The main topics I’ll be covering include Open Source Software, Open Access, and Open Education and how they are relevant to libraries. I’ll also be discussing open licenses, open conferences and camps, open textbooks, and new open Web initiatives.

The SlideShare blog has recently begun a series of blog posts called Slide Tips which are incredibly useful articles from the world’s leading presentation experts. You can subscribe to the series via RSS or have it delivered to your email box. A couple that I found particularly helpful are:

• Slide Tips: Empty space and slide design (by Garr Reynolds)
• Slide Tips: Everything You Need to Know About Presentations from Forrest Gump (by Scott Schwertly)

David Lee King has posted a collection of his personal presentation tips including advice about preparation and planning for a talk and tips for delivering it effectively. He also offers pointers for online webinar presentations and training sessions.

If you are interested in learning more about Open Source software, you’ll want to check out the collection of over 100 presentation files from the recent O’Reilly OSCON Open Source Convention. These are just a few examples of the types of presentations you’ll find:

• Open Source and the Education Community: A Report, and Some Suggestions
• Open Source in the Enterprise
• The Google Open Source Update
• Even Faster Web Sites
• Going Open Source: The 20 Most Important Things To Do
• Introduction to Django

via Webmonkey

A few panelists from the ALA Annual Top Tech Trends session have posted their trends to the LITA blog. Be sure and check out their posts for full explanations of each trend, but here’s a quick run-down of what each listed as their top technologies for libraries to watch.

Karen Coombs

• APIs Galore
• Virtual Participation in Classes and Conferences hits its Stride (Maybe).
• Mobile devices and technologies

Sarah Houghton-Jan

• Bandwidth
• Sustainability
• Looking away from the bright shiny things and at ourselves instead
• Catalogs
• Open Access Content

Eric Lease Morgan

• “Bling” in your website
• Data sets
• Institutional repositories
• Mobile devices
• Net Neutrality
• “Next generation” library catalogs
• Open Access Publishing
• Social networking
• Web Services-based APIs

ReadWriteWeb presents 4+ Ways to Quickly Create Excellent Presentations Online in which they offer an annotated list of free Web-based presentation software - 7 in all including:

• Zoho Show 2.0
• Google Docs
• 280 Slides
• SlideRocket

If you do have a presentation coming up, you may want to download iPresentee’s package of 100 free Keynote Objects for Apple’s Keynote, and also check out 4 Ways to Spice up your Presentations.

Web conferencing applications which enable a presenter to host a Webinar or meeting with live video and audio, text chat, whiteboards, shared files, and even desktop sharing offer countless opportunities for collaboration, online training, and remote assistance. While many of these sophisticated programs are costly, a new crop of free Web conferencing applications has emerged which offer amazing alternatives to traditional online meeting programs such as WebEx and GoToMeeting.

Librarians could use these free applications for holding office hours, reference consultations, library instruction, hosting their own Webinars, conducting live interviews, or collaborating with remote team members on projects.

VRoom by Elluminate is “three for free Web conferencing”. Elluminate lets users sign up for their own virtual meeting room (vRoom) in which they can hold Web conferences with live Webcam, two-way audio, application sharing, IM chat, whiteboard, and file transfer with up to 3 simultaneous users.

Yugma is a Web conferencing application which allows a presenter to share their desktop with conference attendees in order to demonstrate, share, or collaborate on projects. The free, personal version of Yugma enables conferencing with up to 10 people along with an IM chat interface within sessions. Professional accounts can record sessions, share files, change presenters, and share mouse and keyboard controls. The Skype edition integrates with the VOIP application and includes the users’ Skype contact list.

WiZiQ is a completely Web-based education platform which lets teachers present to up to 25 students from within a virtual classroom through live video, audio, and text chat. WiZiQ allows content sharing, provides a whiteboard and records sessions. They have a module which integrates with the Moodle LMS.

Dimdim is a free, open source live meeting software which offers audio and video conferencing and lets hosts share their desktop with attendees. This application requires no download or installation for meeting participants and can be used with up to 20 people with the free version. Dimdim offers whiteboards and both public and private chat options.

PalBee enables members to conduct video conferencing sessions complete with whiteboards, text chat interface, file sharing capabilities, and free recording of sessions. Presenters can hold unlimited sessions with up to five people for up to one hour, and also can pre-record sessions and then share them

Vyew is a fully Web-based conferencing and collaboration application which features white boards, audio and video support, and an integrated chat client. Hosts can share their desktops, take screenshots, conduct conference calls with up to 150 others, and hold conference sessions with up to 20 participants with the free version.

The speaker presentation files for the recent Web 2.0 Expo which was held April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA are now available. If you weren’t able to attend the popular O’Reilly conference, you can still access the 50+ sessions including:

• Games 2.0: Why the Future of Games Looks More Like Zombies and Scrabulous and Less Like Halo 3
• How to Create Successful Unconferences, BarCamps, & Meetups for Almost No $$
• Social Data: Collecting, Mining, and Using it in Your Applications
• Taking Web 2.0 Offline and On the Desktop
• The Next Generation of Tagging: Searching and Discovering a Better User Experience