Comments on: No you can’t have my keynote!

By: Powwownow

Powwownow — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:41:34 +0000

Can’t agree more. You have pin point out every info and expressions, and for me, those powerpoint animations are kinda irritating.

By: tsvet

tsvet — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:03:57 +0000

Can’t agree more! Thanks, Steve!

By: Writing for (y)EU | Post-match analysis: Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:45:50 +0000

[...] of his excellent Keynote slides (I’m so shallow sometimes), which almost persuaded me to drop my principled position against handing out slides to all attendees (I still want [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:59 +0000

OK, I have to say a couple of things about the current conference. First, looking around the room, I reckon about half the community here are Mac-users (including the Head of Obama’s online campaign team…), and on the stage there are TWO laptops: a Sony Vaio and a Mac. So that bodes well on one specific issue. (Just a shame all the geeks in the room have totally overwhelmed the – multiple – wifi networks.)

Second, I just watched a presentation by Joe Rospars, aforementioned Obama guy, and I WANT a copy of his Keynote!!! But at least I’m consistent enough to concede that, if I were him, I wouldn’t give me it.

By: Julien Frisch

Julien Frisch — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:28:37 +0000

We (my boss and me) have similar discussion with our students. They want the slides in advance, we work until the last day to put in the most recent examples or some ideas that came up late.

And then we don’t want them to know everything that is coming, but we want them to follow the lecture in a curious way. This is part of the didactic idea of having a lecture.

But afterwards we share, because they will have write their exams… :-)

By: Tibo

Tibo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:40:14 +0000

I am sooo much with you on that! Well it’s quite natural since you send me to the audience you don’t have time to talk to ;-) And they want our Keynotes. And I say no. (Well, actually I said my boss wrote a super cool memo and he’d be happy to send it to them – hint hint) (Good old writing stuff with complicated words like “hitherto”, my current audience will just love it).

At the end: yes, it is bad to give away our Keynotes presentation.