Powerpoint has incorporated this feature in recent updates, although in almost every workshop I offer on presentation skills the vast majority of trainees are unaware of its presenter display, and indeed the way most conferences are setup, it’s very difficult to use it, given you’re so often expected to hand over your slides to “central control” (which I never do) and forced to use a mirrored display.įor almost all my Macworld presentations I have taken with me a 17″ monitor and splitter box so I could have a screen in front of me rather than turn around to see if the projected audience display is doing what it’s meant to be doing. Instead, apart from his legendary rehearsal work ethic, Jobs and his fellow Apple executives employ Keynote’s Presenter display option, such that presenters can see both current slide and the next one, invisible to the audience.
That’s not to say that every word he speaks is not scripted it’s that he doesn’t require cue cards to read from, or an auto cue such as President Obama uses as if he’s watching a tennis match. If you’ve watched a SteveNote (I was lucky to be in the audience for his final Macworld keynote in 2008) you’ll know he works without a script.
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(One wonders with Steve unlikely to give more official Apple keynotes whether the software will now advance or stay as is…) Those of us who have embraced Apple’s Keynote app as our presentation software of choice – with all the encumbering disadvantages such as conference organiser expectations we will tow the line and present with Powerpoint – have Steve to thank for offering an Apple alternative with he as its most famous beta tester. Some have discussed his place in history, some his leadership and vision, and others his design genius.Ī few have already lamented the likely passing of his “Stevenotes”, the colloquial expression for his superlative keynote presentations where new Apple products, services and roadmaps are announced. Much has been written in recent days of the stepping down of Steve Jobs from his position as Apple CEO.