Tuesday, May 08, 2007

World’s Best Presentation Contest on SlideShare

I wasn’t going to blog about this (trying to keep this blog from becoming the Shift Happens blog), but there’s been a little bit of confusion so I wanted to clear things up.

A “stylized” version of the Did You Know/Shift Happens presentation was selected the winner by the judges of SlideShare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest (and second place by the “people”). I do not deserve the credit for this, Jeff Brenman does. Jeff is a recent graduate of Northwestern University (I’m a not-so-recent grad) and is starting his own design business. He asked me if he could remix Did You Know/Shift Happens and submit it to the contest. I said sure, he did, and it ended up winning (with some pretty impressive judges – Guy Kawasaki, Bert Decker, Garr Reynolds, and Jerry Weissman).

Take a few minutes and watch Jeff's presentation (also embedded below), as well as the other winners – to get ideas about how to improve your next presentation. Congratulations Jeff!


7 comments:

  1. Karl,

    Did you receive my email about this (sent about an hour ago)?. Please check your mail (sent to your gmail address).

    I look forward to hearing back from you. If you did not get it, please drop me a line at rashmi AT slideshare DOT NET as soon as possible. I have something to discuss!

    Rashmi
    CEO, SlideShare

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  2. What is the music accompanying Shift Happens?

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  3. Hi there! You have a great blog here! Have you had a chance to check out Great Education Colorado?

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  4. Karl,

    The music for Shift Happens is awesome! Like the other post - yourmaman - I'd like to know the name of the music so I can get it. Found the video interesting!!

    KKupnorth

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  5. The music is a mix of three tracks from the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack, available at fine music stores everywhere, as well as online at iTunes or Amazon.

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  6. hahaha!!! I knew it!! I could just see Daniel Day Lewis leaping through the forest...wonderful music, wonderful presentation!

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  7. Karl,

    Hey, thanks for the taking the time to let us know about the music!

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