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re: This presentation is all about me - presentation skills part 1: Food for thought...

Michelle Bowden — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:36:33 GMT

Hello! Just a different way to look at it.....I reckon you can delete your agenda slide and talk with the audience using your gestures to emphasis you'll cover this, then this, then this - the slide can suck the energy out of your presentation. M

re: This presentation is all about me - presentation skills part 1: Food for thought...

Dinakar — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:39:50 GMT

Good one Dandy. I like the slide about "I will talk about this.. and then I will talk about.. and later.." I have seen several presenters describe in great detail and never get to half of those that they promised they will get to.. :)

re: This presentation is all about me - presentation skills part 1: Food for thought...

Vanderveken Dave — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:54:06 GMT

Goed gezegd, ik zou het niet beter kunnen uitleggen

re: This presentation is all about me - presentation skills part 1: Food for thought...

Valentino Vranken — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:10:56 GMT

Sounds good! There should indeed still be a short overview, that way people can mentally prepare for what is to come. And get worried if the speaker is still on the first of five items after half an hour :)

re: This presentation is all about me - presentation skills part 1: Food for thought...

Dandy Weyn — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:07:59 GMT

I typically do an overview slide, guess you can call it an agenda slide and keep it to, we'll cover this, so let's get started.

re: This presentation is all about me - presentation skills part 1: Food for thought...

Valentino Vranken — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:04:21 GMT

Interesting Dandy, but are you saying we shouldn't be doing agenda slides either? Or just don't spend ages talking about what we're going to talk about a couple of minutes later, but still include them?

re: About my Lenovo W520, presenting, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 drivers and more ...

Nathan — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:43:09 GMT

I have a W520...

It shouldn't be too much different then yours I would assume, but where on earth did you get drivers for windows server 2012? They just released Windows 8 drivers, but none for servers, not even for windows 2008 are available on their website.

re: Automating the installation of my BI Demo platform with Data Explorer, Geoflow, Visual Studio 2012, BI Projects and Database Projects, SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU3

Mark Ginnebaugh — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:32:17 GMT

Very useful post for those of us who need to routinely set up development and demo environments. I can't count the number of times we have had a glitch in an important demo because of a minor manual change to an environment. Thanks!

re: Automating installation of SQL Server, SSDT, Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012

Dandy Weyn — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:10:48 GMT

Daniel - great feedback - the reason I do so is to make sure that in my installation I can "consider' the installation of VS2012 to be an optional install.

re: Automating installation of SQL Server, SSDT, Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012

Daniel — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:05:28 GMT

why are you installing SSDT & BI VS2012 before installing VS2012 ? as such you got VS2012 Shell installed in addition to the Visual Studio 2012.