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Baby's First Pull Quote

Nancy Duarte (of Duarte Design, the firm that designed Al Gore's famous slideshow seen in An Inconvenient Truth) has a great new book on presentation strategies:



...and Sky is featured in a two page spread (with a cool photo by Lori Matsumoto)!:



Sky has "...strong delivery skills, commanding stage presence, and a brilliant understanding of the format." I saw Nancy give a workshop in the Bay Area in January and she's a deep thinker on this subject, so that's quite an endorsement! Congratulations to our not-so-little girl on her first pull quote.
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stutefish

stutefish

August 25 2008, 18:54:50 UTC 13 years ago

I'm so proud of Sky! And inordinately pleased at how well the photograph came out.

YAY.
rodneylindsey

rodneylindsey

October 9 2008, 14:35:51 UTC 12 years ago

I’m so sorry please I’m sorry I’ll never draw on you again just let me out please it’s smelly and I need to wee wee it’s painful.
lee_in_limbo

lee_in_limbo

August 25 2008, 19:59:22 UTC 13 years ago

That's fantastic!

Lee.
lindseykuper

lindseykuper

August 25 2008, 20:16:28 UTC 13 years ago

That's absolutely awesome.

I loved Sky's rapid-fire presentation style when I saw it and was thrilled to see lots of talks at OSCON 2008 use that format. It's a great way to wake up a sleepy audience and inspire a jaded one. (And we software developers are usually sleepy and jaded.)
fritzhuntsicke

fritzhuntsicke

October 17 2008, 00:35:11 UTC 12 years ago

" She followed that blazingly moronic and out-of-touch statement with: "It's really proven the power of YouTube, that anybody can go to sleep and wake up famous.
dlasky

dlasky

August 26 2008, 00:13:14 UTC 13 years ago

Congratulations to Sky and her proud parents!
denvermccollou

denvermccollou

October 17 2008, 02:06:00 UTC 12 years ago

We are very proud of her and send many congratulations to her owner. . .      Cori - Crazy Corazon Brdsk zlato was also youngest competitor at OVVR basic hunting test on Sunday 1.
luciusstasiak

luciusstasiak

October 17 2008, 02:35:38 UTC 12 years ago

We are very proud of her and send many congratulations to her owner. . .      Cori - Crazy Corazon Brdsk zlato was also youngest competitor at OVVR basic hunting test on Sunday 1.
sherwoodjuenge

sherwoodjuenge

October 17 2008, 02:36:43 UTC 12 years ago

We are very proud of her and send many congratulations to her owner. . .      Cori - Crazy Corazon Brdsk zlato was also youngest competitor at OVVR basic hunting test on Sunday 1.
halwells

halwells

12 years ago

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dlasky

I got something similar on one of my LJ posts...

dlasky

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smccloud

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Re: I got something similar on one of my LJ posts...

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lizjonesbooks

lizjonesbooks

August 26 2008, 01:10:28 UTC 13 years ago

Very cool!
And I love that hair color, FWIW.
carissamummau

carissamummau

October 9 2008, 14:19:40 UTC 12 years ago

That's not her natural hair color. Her natural hair color is actually even brighter red than that. :-O.
davidd

davidd

August 26 2008, 04:52:00 UTC 13 years ago

Having had the opportunity to see the "polished" version of Sky's presentation near the end of The Tour, I am in complete agreement with the quote, and I try (and fail, but at least I try) to pattern my occasional presentations after those of Sky and Scott. The McCloud Tour completely changed my (formerly negative) opinion about the efficacy of PowerPoint (or Keynote ) presentations.

I'd like to see Scott and Sky collaborate on a book on this topic.
eldridgeresan

eldridgeresan

October 9 2008, 14:13:50 UTC 12 years ago

I'd very much like to see one of these texts published. . . . So far as I know, there are no published texts in Rumsen--at least no analyzed texts.
little_licks

little_licks

August 26 2008, 20:52:39 UTC 13 years ago

Sky's presence in her interview in 24 Hours Later was astounding to me. It was a little unnerving to hear someone her age be so articulate. Congratulations to Sky!
hermancleman

hermancleman

October 9 2008, 14:34:10 UTC 12 years ago

In the twentieth hour of a hour interview marathon session which featured internationally-known artists and intellectuals, he said, “Chantal [Mouffe, a political scientist], at this point you have to help us out.
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12 years ago

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masonmanukyan

12 years ago

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  • (no subject)

    What do you think about this? I think my suggestion came across as more radical than I'd intended, but it's resulting in an interesting discussion.

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  • (no subject)

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