After posting my screencast on Creating Pictogram People in PowerPoint using 3 Shapes, I looked at the samples I shared and realized they were all quite “mannish.” Generally, I think pictogram people, due to their very nature, should be gender-less. They are just shapes put together to represent a person. This makes it easy when … Read more
I recorded this screencast as part of #workingoutloud to show how I created pictogram people in PowerPoint. Best of all, I only used three shapes to create them. Source PPT file Check out the screencast here:
I shared my first screencast with my new audio set-up in my last post. In this post I’ll attempt to objectively critique myself in the six areas I specified in my first post. Delivery: Am I stiff as a board or lively? To borrow from A. A. Milne, am I a Tigger or an Eeyore? I … Read more
In my previous post, I detailed my plan to start screencasting as a way of getting better at presenting. In this post I’ll talk about some of the questions and challenges I’m dealing with. These challenges revolve around setting up my recording equipment and environment. Here is my original set-up. Blue Yeti USB mic/headphones/pop screen … Read more
I’m reading Working out Loud by John Stepper and it is enlightening to say the least. I’ve made my first pass through the book and am now returning to the exercises on how to start working out loud. I’ve done some of this in the past, but I want to be more deliberate about it … Read more
Of late, I’ve been focusing a lot on single slide design. I recently shared a video menu template and then revamped it into another video menu template. For this go-round, I decided to create a single slide template that could be used as a “get to know the company” motif for use in an onboarding … Read more