Links for Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- Nancy Duarte: Tips for Presentations of a (Second)Lifetime – “Presenting via a webinar is tough to do. Presenting in a virtual world as an avatar will surely have nuances that are new for me.“
- Seattle Post Globe – “Today, we — former P-I journalists — are embarking on a new stage in our careers, hoping to fulfill our life’s mission in a different way. We want to keep letting you know what’s really going on in this city.“
- Nancy Duarte: The Power Presenter: 3 Tips That Transformed My Last Presentation – “As a presenter, I feed off the energy of the audience. I used to think that the audience determined the energy in the room, but after applying some of Jerry Weissman’s principles, I learned the presenter has more control over the room than I previously thought.“
- Steve Blank: Change We Can Believe In – Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open Source the Chevy Volt – “I proposed that in exchange for the GM bailout we spin out the Chevy Volt into an open source electric car platform. Any automaker who builds the car in the U.S. will be able to build on the Volt Platform, but all drivetrain improvements are open source.“
- Bill Shrink: 16 Depression Era Money Saving Tips – “People who lived through the Great Depression will tell you that your mindset and overall attitude was just as important (if not more so) than the specific money-saving strategies you used. It took a pervasive mentality of penny-pinching and getting as much from what you had as possible. The best way to cultivate this mentality? Just pretend that you’re broke.” – Via Financial Armageddon.