A Few KEY-notes (I kill me)

A few notes regarding Keynote and your presentation on Friday.
******YOUR PRESENTATION MUST BE SENT IN KEYNOTE FORMAT, PDFS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ******

1. I will need your presentations by 12 a.m. on Friday (as in the night before the actual presentation) So I can get them set up and ready to go for Friday morning.
2. Please send along any fonts you will be using with the presentation. If you're not terribly tech-savvy, ask a classmate for help or email me by Thursday at 5pm and I will assist you.
3. You will be presenting from my Macbook. Because of the room set up, you will be standing in the back of the room while you present. This will also allow you to take advantage of Keynote's presenter's notes feature. Let me know today if you need help setting this up.
4. We will start promptly at 11:30 on Friday.

A few things to keep in mind:
• You're designers, the presentation should be designed
• If something in your presentation is visually distracting, it should be intentionally so
• Um, er, uh means you're not confident in what you're presenting
• Speak loudly, but not obnoxiously

I'll let you know the order of the presentation on Friday. It won't be the same as last time nor will it be alphabetical.
That's all.

Looking forward to you work.

Presentation for Friday Sept 12

Please email your presentations to me at mel2669 at g mail dot com prior to tomorrows class. Given the technical difficulties I've encountered in the past, also come prepared with your presentation on a usb flash drive as well. We will present from my MacBook (if all goes well. Nicolette, have yours in hand) I have determined the order of the presentations. I will call on you individually when it is your turn. Items of note are below:

Presentation length: 10-15 minutes per presentation
Discussion Length: 5 minutes per presentation

Questions to think about when we discuss:
• Do you understand the industry your classmate has identified
• Were the audits clear and concise
• Does your classmate appear to have a strong grasp of what they are communicating and attempting accomplish with their brand

Obviously 5 minutes will not be a great deal of time to touch on these, but we'll give it a go.

I will keep time to ensure everyone has ample time. This timing assumes that some presentations will be shorter. Should we not get to everyones from a discussion standpoint, I will discuss your presentation with you either Friday or by Monday.

Looking forward to seeing what you've come up with!

Present Like Steve Jobs

Keynote

There seems to be a bit of confusion as to what your Keynote should contain. It should be an overview of the following items from the book:

• Understanding the business (p.82)
• Market research (p. 84)
• Marketing audit (p. 86)
• Competitive audit (p. 88)
• Stakeholder audit (Audience Audit in your case) (p. 90)
• Language audit (p. 92)

You can use this as an outline for your Keynote if you'd like.

Clarification

Your Keynote presentations should contain both visual and verbal representations of the research you've done up to this point, as well as the information contained in the notes from the lecture. Also, I'd like to see more of your research on your blogs, so I can have an idea of where you're going. Take a look at Curtis' blog here: http://cpickell.blogspot.com/ to see what I'm referring to. (Curtis said I could single him out, just so you know)

Lecture Notes 08.03.08

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