A nice and short deck (13 slides) for you to start the week with; Queue Hacker was an app developed in school in just 3 weeks as a way to make the post office a little less of a pain. Seems like it could be used in a number of places as well – here’s looking at you, DMV. Kudos to the entire team involved.

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Your humble hosts have been invited to speak at the Big Ideas in Higher Education Conference next week on the campus of Rutgers University. Unfortunately, Dave cannot make this event but has promised he’ll grace us with his presence on future ones. I’ll be providing a hands on workshop of all things related PowerPoint and Keynote. If you happen to be attending the conference, make sure you say hello, I’d love to give you a high five.

Speaking of future events, we are currently booking workshops for late summer and fall if your business, school or family reunion is in need of some presentation development training. We’d love to chat if you’re interested.

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Here’s some very well done slides by Karolina Szczur to accompany her presentation at the Appspirina barcamp in Warsaw this past March. Very well balanced without overdoing it which most of us are in the habit of doing.

Content Strategy for Mobile :: Note & Point
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Congrats to another alumnus, Emiland De Cubber, for utilizing his skills and a social media platform to land a new career! Hopefully his new gig will continually allow him to share his deck building skills with N&P!

How I landed a job with Slideshare :: Note & Point
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Leave it to two time N&P alum, Forty, to come up with another cool way to do an annual report.

In their words:

The typical corporate annual report is a snoozefest, brimming with overinflated earnings, lofty goals for the next year, and psuedo-inspirational fluff. In typical Forty fashion, our team stuck our tongues out to all those lackluster reports and annual books of lists and said, “To heck with that!” Instead, we created our own version that captures some of our most favorite, least favorite, and downright ridiculous things from the last year. So kick your feet up, and dive in to our Annual Report for 2011: Forty’s Book of Lists.

Looks like their team has a bit of fun as well as turns out some cool projects. I’m looking forward to seeing the debate rage about ranking Helvetica in the same confines as Comic Sans…

Forty’s Book of Lists :: Note & Point
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There’s definitely a lack of content around these that I’m sure the presenter did a great job of tying in but I dig the simple approach to the framework of this theme. Bold colors and simple font usage with some nice infographics & imagery sprinkled in. Kudos to Idan Gazit for the Friday inspiration.

Data, Design, Meaning :: Note & Point
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The guys/gals at frog design took the time to build out their thoughts on the modern city. “Today’s Facebook will be complemented by tomorrow’s Placebook.” Interesting stuff and a nice deck to boot.

The Metacity :: Note & Point
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This deck by Marcelo Somers was a really good way to start my creative morning. – great reminders to the fact that it isn’t all just about pretty pictures and pixels, our goal with design should be to solve problems first. Good stuff, definitely worth taking 10 minutes to dig through. From the Big (D)esign conference in 2011. Thanks, Marcelo!

Design Is How It Works :: Note & Point
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This is a pretty killer deck by Donny Epp of Field Agent that covers a multitude of uses for your iPhone (and other smart phones as well). While the content might not be anything new to you, the design and context around them should be quickly added to your arsenal of tools. Nice work, Donny!

I Can Do That With My Phone? :: Note & Point
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Another socially-aware presentation from a SlideRocket user, this time relating to pets. Easy to forget that we’re usually about pixels and code and there’s plenty more in life to think about or concern our time with. Pet lovers beware, you’re about to adopt a few more…

Created for the small but spunky non-profit 2nd Chance 4 Pets.

2nd Chance 4 Pets :: Note & Point
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