Results tagged “Steve Jobs” from CLICK

How to do a presentation like Steve Jobs

| | Comments (0) |

Steve_Jobs.jpg

Everyone knows Apple's Steve Jobs can kill when it comes to a presentation with overhead PowerPoint-ish slides (you know he doesn't use PowerPoint). Now there's a book about how to do it the Steve Jobs (and other successful people) way.

Carmine Gallo has analyzed the Steve Jobs magic, which you can sample in this article, or get the full Steve of in Gallo's new book.

Yes, even with pancreatic cancer, a transplanted liver and a closet with nothing but black mock turtlenecks, Jobs does it better than you. Learn from the master.

If you're too lazy to click over, here are some quick Steve Jobs presentation tips:

  • Use the rule of "threes." Jobs usually divides his presentations into three sections. And if he mentions attributes or features of a given product, this is also often done in threes.
  • Don't use bullet points. Again: Don't use bullet points. Replace bullet points with visuals. Pictures talk, words walk.
  • "Create a 'holy smokes' moment." In the article and book above, the example cited is when Jobs pulled a MacBook Air from a manila envelope to show how gosh-darned thin it was.
  • Again, fewer words on screen, more pictures. This is key.
  • Plan, collaborate and rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. Jobs doesn't create his presentations in a vacuum. He has help. Then he runs it through for hours at a time over a period of weeks. He's not pulling this stuff out from you-know-where.

Hey, I just used a bunch of bullet points and should have instead done it with a visual:


woz_and_jobs.jpg

See ... he didn't used to wear black mock turtlenecks every damn day.

Follow Steve Jobs' live WWDC keynote — with plenty of iPhone news — NOW ... right here!!

| | Comments (0) |

Engadget is covering it live.

Honestly, I don't know how they — meaning Engadget — does it, but they do.

Also covering Steve Jobs at WWDC live:

Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng
ZDNet's Ed Burnette
Barron's Tech Trader Daily

More links from Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ...

But Engadget has all the up-to-the-minute photos.

Tech Talk column

Steven Rosenberg's weekly Tech Talk column, which appears Saturdays in the Los Angeles Daily News, is now available on the Daily News Technology page.

About this blog

New ways to sign in to comment: I just added the ability for prospective commenters on this blog to sign in using their AOL, Yahoo! and Wordpress.com accounts (for the past 200 posts anyway ... more than that will take an extensive, middle-of-the-night rebuild). That's in addition to the other sign-in choices, which include starting a Movable Type account on this blog, Typekey, OpenID, Live Journal and Vox. If you have trouble getting your Movable Type account verified, or any of the other sign-in options are not working properly, please e-mail me. With these added ways of signing in, there's more reason than ever for you to make a comment (or several!).




Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.



Recent Comments

Powered by Movable Type 4.25

Tags

LXer

Links

Daily News technology
LXer
Distrowatch
Linus' Blog
David Pogue
BoingBoing
Linux Today
TuxRadar
Linux.com
Linux Planet
The Open Road
Linux Outlaws podcast
Dan Lynch
Fabian Scherschel
The VAR Guy
Larry the Free Software Guy
Chess Griffin
Linux Reality podcast
Desktop Linux
Practical Technology
Linux Devices
ZDNet
ZDNet U.K.
iTWire
CNet News
Webware
Beyond Binary
TechCrunch
The Register
Ars Technica
Reg Developer
Computerworld
Computerworld blogs
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at Computerworld
Debian
Planet Debian
Debian Forums
Debian News
debianHELP
debiantutorials.org
The Debian User
Wolfgang Lonien
Debian-News.net
Debian Administration
Debian Admin
Debian Weather
Aaron Toponce
Ubuntu
Xubuntu
Kubuntu
Edubuntu
Gobuntu
Planet Ubuntu
Ubuntu Forums
Ubuntu Geek
Works With U
OMG! Ubuntu!
I' Been to Ubuntu
Tanner Helland
Dustin Kirkland
Ubuntu UK Podcast
Popey
gNewSense
CrunchBang Linux
OpenBSD
OpenBSD Journal
OpenBSD Ports
OpenBSD 101
Planet.OpenBSD.nu
jggimi's OpenBSD live CD
DaemonForums
BSDanywhere
Marc Balmer
Denny's OpenBSD blog
Polarwave's OpenBSD Tips and Tricks
Binary Updates for OpenBSD
Puppy Linux
Damn Small Linux
Tiny Core Linux
Lucky 13's Linux blog (lots of Tiny Core)
Lucky 13's BSD blog
PCLinuxOS
Mandriva
Red Hat
Red Hat News
Red Hat Blogs
Red Hat: Truth Happens
Red Hat Magazine
CentOS
Planet CentOS
Fedora
Slackware
Slackbuilds
Robby's Slackware Packages
Slackblogs
dropline GNOME for Slackware
GNOME Slackbuild
GWARE - GNOME for Slackware
Wolvix
Zenwalk Linux
Vector Linux
Slax
Splack Linux — Slackware for Sparc
Nonux
How to Forge
marc.info BSD and Linux mailing list archive
FreeBSD
FreeBSD, the Unknown Giant
A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru
NetBSD
hubertf's NetBSD Blog
PC-BSD
DesktopBSD
DragonFlyBSD
DragonFlyBSD Digest
DesktopBSD
BSD Talk podcast
BSD Magazine
OpenSolaris
MilaX
BeleniX
DeLi Linux
Linux Loop
Electronista
Engadget
Gizmodo
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language
Nixie Pixel

Advertisement

Other blogs

More on Vijay: The success stories don't end here in Farther Off the Wall
Morning Buzz in Inside USC with Scott Wolf
HS FOOT: Taft's Morgan closing in on 5,000 yards in Daily News High School Spotlight
Sampson, Schmid, Chivas USA & Baseless Rumors in 100 Percent Soccer
A cool little note... in Inside UCLA with Jon Gold