Ultimately audiences and judges will vote for you if you Connect with them emotionally Answer all their questions – spoken and otherwise Save and respect their time and intelligence by only making credible claims Backstopping and supporting your claims by solid believable evidence The first presentation on my slideshare deck is about the SMB Fatimah…
Month: November 2009
The Presentation cheat sheet – one
Pitching Perfect
The many faces of Alchemy
I did this slide deck a year and a handful of months ago. We were riding high and the cycle had hit but hadn’t really hit us. When I started working on the deck the objective was to showcase all the interesting things we had done together as a team. It still bring backs great…
The many evul ways of the Apple Clique
So after cornering me into joining Facebook, it was only natural that I would end up dumping my old friend the Internet Explorer for Safari. IE had been freezing on a regular basis with Facebook and Jehan suggested Safari as an alternate. Two hours later, all I can say is, Safari, where have you been…
It is now official – Facebook it is!
In less than three weeks from the date that I was forced to upon for business on Facebook by Mohtashim and Jehan, Facebook is now the official leader in referring unsuspecting visitors to my blog. Previously this dubious honor was held by the Alchemy website. After a tightly run race on Google Analytics over the…
Adil Moosajee on Failure
There is something that Adil said during our Q&A session about failure that is still resonating with me. The question dealt with retaining a positive outlook after failing and Adil jumped in with a great analogy. “Have you ever cooked a new dish?”, he asked the audience. “Yes”, they said. “There must have been instances…
Reboot presentation @ TIECON
Here is the slide share version of the Reboot presentation I made yesterday at the TIECON 2009 event in Karachi. Had a lot of fun putting this together. Alchemy Reboot @ TIE CON Karachi View more presentations from jafcbs.
Heal Thyself or TIECON 2009, Karachi
The best of friends are the conspring kind. When Sabeen and Jehan conspired together to get me to speak at TIECON 2009 in Karachi, the original plan was to do my presentation, stay for the post presentation Q&A and then head out. I even parked in Sheraton’s outdoor parking to ensure that I wouldn’t have…
Monday morning blues – redux
Sometimes what you listen to says it all. “I think I’ll go to BostonI think I’ll start a new lifeI think I’ll start it overwhere no one knows my name Oh yeah and I think I’ll go to BostonI think that I was tiredI think I need a new townTo leave this all behind Boston,…
Monday morning blues
Sometimes when I am in slow mode, I get hit by Monday morning blues on Tuesday afternoons. You know the drill. Don’t want to face the world, don’t want to talk to anyone, don’t want period. Just me, myself and my prescription of misery. After a break of about a year, I got hit by…