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The Seven Deadly Presentation Sins

on YouTube 58m
Talkat NDC Oslo 2019 · 2019-06-17..06-21· [soft-skills]

speakers

name:Samantha Coates
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name:Andrew Coates
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/v1Elm3YlR-U
slides:none on file

summary

Session lays out the seven deadly presentation sins with concrete examples: drawing attention to mistakes, fixing errors on-stage, starting too fast, changing conditions, showing dissatisfaction, breaking the spell, and ignoring the audience. It then builds a demo around Microsoft Cognitive Services — the computer vision API — to OCR taxi receipts and extract ABN, total and date; the first demo fails from brittle networking and missing backups, the second succeeds by simplifying to one REST POST, rehearsing, controlling the environment and keeping a fallback. Rehearse and love your audience

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chapters (13)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 17:33Showing dissatisfaction
  3. 18:44Ignoring the audience
  4. 23:547 Deadly Presentation Sins
  5. 24:04Unstructured
  6. 24:47Poor Slides
  7. 26:59Poor Timing
  8. 27:32Distractions
  9. 33:207 Deadly Demonstration Sins
  10. 37:28Brittle Demo
  11. 39:13Too complex
  12. 40:12Winging It
  13. 41:19Improvising

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