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10th February 2004

Seven Steps to Better Presentations

“I’ve noticed a lot of talk about Powerpoint lately. About how it’s so terrible and how it enables awful presentations. But the problem isn’t Powerpoint, of course. The problem is bad content delivered poorly. I speak for a living, and hear lots and lots of presentations at the conferences I attend. Here are some notes I wrote up for someone who is about to give his first ever public presentation.”

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10th February 2004

Managing the Complexity of Content Management

“Where’s the disconnect between what’s possible and the too-often failure of CMS? Content management systems suck. Or so you would think from the strife heard from analystsand practitioners alike. And yet, many websites regularly publish vast amounts of information with superior control and ease compared to manually editing pages. So where’s the disconnect between what’s possible and the too-often failure of CMS?”

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10th February 2004

On Search, the Series

“This series of essays on the construction, deployment and use of search technology (by which I mean primarily ‘full-text’ search) was written between June and December of 2003. It has fifteen instalments not including this table of contents.” Thanks Elegant Hack

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