Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Feb 2009 PresentationCamp

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My new faculty colleague, Dr. John Nash, is one of the hosts for PresentationCamp at Stanford University on February 28. I can’t attend but it should be good fun. The event is co-sponsored by Duarte Design, including free copies of slide:ology (which is an awesome book). No more death by PowerPoint!

If you go, tell John you learned about it here!

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