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The End of Summer - with thanks to Steve Jobs & Flipron

The End of Summer - with thanks to Steve Jobs & Flipron
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Freelance researcher and consultant who runs courses, coaches, writes books and blogs on public speaking, presentation and speechwriting

Freelance researcher and consultant who runs courses, coaches, writes books and blogs on public speaking, presentation and speechwriting
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At this time last year, I posted a video clip of audiences clapping out the conference season (HERE). This year, I've produced a compilation of members of a conference audience listening in rapt attention (?) with musical backing from Flipron'sThe End of Summer (from their albumBiscuits for Cerberus). Much admired for Jesse Budd's lyrics and Joe Atkinson's brilliance on the keyboards, this particular sequence neatly catches a suitable mood for marking the end of the party conference season.

And thanks to Steve Jobs - without whom...When I bought my first computer in 1985, I came very close to buying an Apple Macintosh but chickened out and bought an Apricot (with two slots for 750K floppy disks).

While staying with John Heritage in Los Angeles about six years ago, he marched me into the student shop at UCLA and made me buy my first MacBook.

Since then I quickly upgraded to a MacBook Pro, have acquired a desktop MacPro and have been using an iPhone since the first week of its launch in the UK.

To expand on all the many virtues of being liberated from the familiar nightmares of using a Windows computer would be to risk a very long and boring blogpost. So suffice it to say that the incredible reliability and ease of using the iMovie program that's built into Macs has saved me thousands of hours in preparing demo clips both for lectures and courses and for posting as examples on this blog.

For example, preparing this particular movie - including retrieval of the music, selecting and editing the clips and aligning them with the backing - took less than half an hour.

What's more, Steve Jobs stood out among CEOs as an extremely effective presenter from whom there was much that other business leaders could and should learn.
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