Comments on: Acrobat, Canberra, Microsoft http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1751 microsoft, munging and on being a mercurial iconoclastic professional geek. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hodgenick http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1751/comment-page-1#comment-1311 hodgenick Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:46:03 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1751#comment-1311 Misty Merry Christmas, happy new year. I am not sure where this comment is coming from... You are quite right - I am not that interesting. I am not sure why you think a personal web site should be more than anything personal; for comments, personal interests etc. I am not a designer, and your comments on the readability are welcome. Toastmasters do provide excellent presentation training, not demonstration training. Demonstrating software to audiences is not easy. What don't they teach? How to not lose an audience when explaining a complex new feature. Matching a new feature to a problem a large number of your audience has. Keeping to time and having enough knowledge to take audience questions and show the answer. To name a few. I don't what you have against Mac users, geeks, or MINIs. All seem pretty innocuous to me. Misty
Merry Christmas, happy new year. I am not sure where this comment is coming from…

You are quite right — I am not that interesting. I am not sure why you think a personal web site should be more than anything personal; for comments, personal interests etc. I am not a designer, and your comments on the readability are welcome.

Toastmasters do provide excellent presentation training, not demonstration training. Demonstrating software to audiences is not easy. What don’t they teach? How to not lose an audience when explaining a complex new feature. Matching a new feature to a problem a large number of your audience has. Keeping to time and having enough knowledge to take audience questions and show the answer. To name a few.

I don’t what you have against Mac users, geeks, or MINIs. All seem pretty innocuous to me.

]]> By: Misty http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1751/comment-page-1#comment-1309 Misty Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:48:28 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1751#comment-1309 Presentation skills not taught by Toastmasters– if not, why not? It's the lack of presenting skills which dulls the senses of these roadshows, and the arrogance of ALL Mac users in general, is just so annoying. YAWN. It's old, it's boring. You say these techniques are handed down by masters to other trainers, what techniques? Technical stuff? How to launch a program? Leave the presenting to professionals, not geeks, please! And by the way, your website is really hard on the eyes, impossible to read, and badly designed. And as for your photo collection -- who really wants to see photos of your mini? and a Thai restaurant? And a cat???!! You are not that interesting. Presentation skills not taught by Toastmasters– if not, why not? It’s the lack of presenting skills which dulls the senses of these roadshows, and the arrogance of ALL Mac users in general, is just so annoying. YAWN. It’s old, it’s boring. You say these techniques are handed down by masters to other trainers, what techniques? Technical stuff? How to launch a program? Leave the presenting to professionals, not geeks, please! And by the way, your website is really hard on the eyes, impossible to read, and badly designed. And as for your photo collection — who really wants to see photos of your mini? and a Thai restaurant? And a cat???!! You are not that interesting.

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