Where I’ve Been

I was in San Francisco last week attending the Atlassian Summit on behalf of my company. I was actually one of the speakers this year which was a big deal both for me and for Freedom, the company I work for. It was one of the biggest, non-customer audiences our company has had. Needless to say I’ve been busy preparing for it in all of my spare time over the last few weeks, which is a poor but viable excuse for why I haven’t been posting much. I hope to begin posting more frequently again. If you’d like to view the slides from my presentation they’re on Slideshare. They also recorded all of the speeches and the videos should be posted within the next 24 hours. I’ll make sure to post a link here when it’s up.

Delivering Happiness Winners

Upon returning from San Francisco, I was delighted to discover two new copies of Delivering Happiness, the book I reviewed last week, sitting on my doorstep. These are not advance copies, but are real, hardback brand-spanking-new copies of the book. You see, in my eagerness to get a free copy I signed up for numerous giveaways never expecting to actually get any of them. But I’ve actually wound up with four copies total. Since I only had three comments on the post last week from people trying to win a copy, it turns out that all three of those folks will be getting a copy! Yay! E’erbody happy. I’ll be contacting all of you soon to get information about where to send your copy.

The Scope of This Blog

When I started Advance Your Slides last year, I envisioned it being a place for me to share all of the wonderful things I was learning about presentation design and communications. As things have progressed, I’ve decided that much of what I want to share here doesn’t really fit into that mold. So I’d like to try an experiment. I’d like to make this blog more of an online scrapbook with links and references to the awesome things that I run across on the web that I think will make me a better communicator/designer. Kind of like Swiss-Miss, but for presentations and presentation design instead of just the general design yumminess she posts. I hope this will enable me to post more frequently and easily and will thus make this blog of more value to you. I may still post longer, original posts here from time to time, but the majority of the posts will be links, pictures, presentations, and slides I find elsewhere. The interwebs can come up with much more awesome content that I’d ever be able to produce on my own. :^)

If you have any suggestions for how I can make this blog better I hope you’ll share them with me in the comments section below. Otherwise, I hope you’re enjoying the post so far and will continue to read my musings here.