With Resonate, learn how to transform any presentation into an engaging journey. Understand your audience, create persuasive content and elicit a groundswell response.

Good talk for students to analyze for technique. (Gestures, speed, phrase length, pauses, talk structure -- analogy/story, ending with a challenge.)

It sounds like the start of one of those jokes that rely on professional stereotypes, doesn't it? But, I was actually hired by Cambridge University Library to establish a design practice and run an innovation programme within the Library. I had stepped (mostly deliberately) into a complex context where the traditional models of publishing, education and librarianship are being disrupted.  In this talk, I share some of the human-centred design techniques we have been employing in Cambridge University Libraries to involve library users and librarians in collaborative innovation. These include design research, sketch hacks, design jams and innovation labs.  I also reflect on the successes and the lessons I have learned from bringing design practice and applying design thinking in a library context.  Originally presented at i2c2 in Manchester on Thursday, 7 March 2014.

The "audience pet peeves" slide is HIGHLY RELEVANT to job talks.

Yesterday (Oct. 8), Maurice Coleman  and I gave a one-hour webinar  entitled “Giving Your First Conference Presentation: What No One Tells...

Lessons from TED

Really good advice. Shove it at 644; maybe it means job talks will be less cookie-cutter...

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A step-by-step guide on producing brilliant slide-decks - that are really easy to do.  See www.thewikiman.org for more stuff.

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