Comments on: The cool and not-so-cool from BlogWell http://www.sparkminute.com/2009/06/23/the-cool-and-not-so-cool-from-blogwell/ David Spark's segment on Green 960 AM (formerly 960, The Quake) Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:27:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: GasPedal Event: Corporate Social Media Success Stories http://www.sparkminute.com/2009/06/23/the-cool-and-not-so-cool-from-blogwell/comment-page-1/#comment-66847 GasPedal Event: Corporate Social Media Success Stories Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:12:36 +0000 http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=691#comment-66847 [...] budgets and resources have tried and tested and what has worked and failed. David Spark also has a great write-up of the event. GasPedal holds a number of interesting events on this topic if you want to learn [...] [...] budgets and resources have tried and tested and what has worked and failed. David Spark also has a great write-up of the event. GasPedal holds a number of interesting events on this topic if you want to learn [...]

]]> By: David Spark http://www.sparkminute.com/2009/06/23/the-cool-and-not-so-cool-from-blogwell/comment-page-1/#comment-66724 David Spark Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:34:40 +0000 http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=691#comment-66724 Mark: It's great that you provide some content afterwards, but I'll be brutally honest with you, it was far too distracting to have all that much text WHILE you were presenting. Honestly, I had a hard time concentrating on what you were saying and I didn't know what your points were. Also, people don't READ PowerPoint presentations and slides. And I know you also mentioned that you were going to put your presentation up on SlideShare. With all that text shrunk down, it's probably going to come out as six point type. My recommendation is to actually write a summary ARTICLE of everything and provide that link or maybe even hard copies after the event. It's what I do when I present. You can find all my articles here: http://www.sparkmediasolutions.com/opinions_list.html My PowerPoint presentations are always just headlines and the articles have complete details. Mark:

It’s great that you provide some content afterwards, but I’ll be brutally honest with you, it was far too distracting to have all that much text WHILE you were presenting. Honestly, I had a hard time concentrating on what you were saying and I didn’t know what your points were.

Also, people don’t READ PowerPoint presentations and slides. And I know you also mentioned that you were going to put your presentation up on SlideShare. With all that text shrunk down, it’s probably going to come out as six point type.

My recommendation is to actually write a summary ARTICLE of everything and provide that link or maybe even hard copies after the event. It’s what I do when I present. You can find all my articles here: http://www.sparkmediasolutions.com/opinions_list.html

My PowerPoint presentations are always just headlines and the articles have complete details.

]]> By: Mark Yolton http://www.sparkminute.com/2009/06/23/the-cool-and-not-so-cool-from-blogwell/comment-page-1/#comment-66723 Mark Yolton Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:23:52 +0000 http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=691#comment-66723 Hi David - As the SAP presenter, thank you for the feedback - both the recognition of the cool and the advice on not-so-cool. Although I hesitate to make an excuse for my deficiencies, some of the density of the slides is meant to help people afterwards, via detail, as soon as the slides are posted and shared. Mark Yolton Hi David – As the SAP presenter, thank you for the feedback – both the recognition of the cool and the advice on not-so-cool. Although I hesitate to make an excuse for my deficiencies, some of the density of the slides is meant to help people afterwards, via detail, as soon as the slides are posted and shared.

Mark Yolton

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