Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:03:28 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' Message-ID: <20090423220328.GB27972@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <d356c5630904220847q7ff69774n27919941e0dfa3ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <1240414705.73519.12.camel@pukruppa.net> <d356c5630904220847q7ff69774n27919941e0dfa3ca@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:47:44AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa > <ulrich@pukruppa.net>wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline: > > > In any case, there are > > > two questions for this list. > > > The first, obviously, is subjective and is: > > > would having my stuff in slideshow fmt gain me a wider readership? > > Yes. Any sort of attractive presentation will draw more attention to > > your content than ordinary text without any pictures or animations. > > > > > The > > > second is: anybody out there willing to clue me in on this stuff? > > I have always made very good experiences with technical questions of all > > kind on this list. Regarding your contents or lay-out and design there > > probably are better forums. > > > > Greetings, > > > > Uli. > > > gary > > > > > > > It is very difficult to convey concepts or ideas with any complexity with > slides alone. Usually, slides should accompany and complement a > presentation. I understand that much, and I have at least one file of preamble "chatter" per section. Some sections have 4 or 5 preamble mumblings that offer the user///reader a clue re my thinking. One thing I never forgot was that we all take away a slightly different set of concepts from what we read or see on the tube. Even from a painting or photo. My chatter/mumblings are only my ideas, my guidelines. I was surprised when my daughter drew something completely different from one thing I wrote. > > If the document must stand alone (no speech, etc), and the content is of any > complexity, I would advise not using slides. > > For anyone using slides, I recommend the following book by Garr Reynolds: > "Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery" > Thanks for the pointer. I googled Reynolds' website and see that his book is available thru amazon.com. this opens a whole new field of opportunity... . gary > > Best regards, > > Andrew -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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