How to begin a presentation, book, etc
Kathy Sierra posted a blog entry a while ago entitled “Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article…“:http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/10/better_beginnin.html in which she lists a series of tips, myths, or personal beefs. These include things like:
* Don’t start with the history (A huge problem with tech books)
* You don’t have to build credibility, just make sure you don’t loose it
* begin with a question
* don’t start at the beginning, instead, just jump right into the middle of things and present the beginning later on
Kathy has posted a series of articles on doing presentations and they are all worth searching for and reading through. If we all followed her advice, it would result in a lot less of those boring PowerPoint powered presentations where the presenter simply reads everything on the slide and then moves on, ugh!