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Presenting like Steve Jobs

January 24, 2010 · 1 Comment

I was looking for a way to turn my own personal videos into text files so that I can read what I said and search for things later but that search had a detour or two. While going from the one speech-recognition software site to another, I found myself on lifehacker.com and saw ways to transform an office into a studio you’d want to spend all day working in. Nice. But what about my problem?

I clicked some more links and found myself looking at a video describing the concepts in a new book written by Carmine Gallo called The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and I thought: Wow. Cool!

I bought the book. And after buying the book, I watched a video I found on lifehacker.com: Deliver Polished Presentations Steve Jobs Style.

Further clicking took me to the Carmine Gallo website and a cool slide presentation service called SlideRocket.com where I watched a very polished presentation about the concepts covered in the book. So I’m all ready to read it when it arrives! And I want to see how SlideRocket works. It beautifully scaled to fill my 30″ Cinema display with no jaggies (so it must use Flash or something vector-based). Very impressive.

So I bought the book, watched a video about the book and then a watched a SlideRocket presentation gave me even more ideas. I’m really excited to figure out what I’m here to do with my life and my business.

What can I create or do that would make others happier? [Good question. I'm thinking.]

But then I went back to my search for turning video into text. [And now, I'm going to take a walk with my dog.]

Categories: Biz Dev