The other day I was helping a friend improve their presentation as well as figured I would share a couple of my thoughts in general on behalf of making effective presentations.
1. Know your audience! Make sure the presentation style suits the audience.
If they like money (and who doesn’t), discuss money, if they desire their employment opportunities to be easier discuss that. Target their interests, or utilize those interests to explain or improve your presentation/points.
I remember one of the harder presentations I had to do was convincing a group  of people at a conference that the technology I was representing was fun as well as  interesting. I played a fun game based on the ever loved Price is Right. The  audience was involved, shouted their ideas of what was the right answer to a  number of trivia questions as well as I had fun prizes such as a new car!… freshner,  as well as all inclusive trips to Tim Hortons (gift cert as well as gas card). The key reason  this game was effective was because of the fact that it built right into the topics I was  discussing as well as the audiences involvement was crucial to the pres

I have to admit I am kind of on information overload. I think I have about 300 pages of information I desire to still read through on Azure, the new Office 14 features as well as functionality, as well as play with Windows 7 more. I am extremely excited about EVERYTHING unvieled so far this year at the PDC conference.
I wrote a short post about Azure (http://sharepointkb.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/windows-azure-services/) as well as hope that in the next few days I have a possibility to really summarize some of my high level observations as well as expectations. One thing that I can say on behalf of sure though is how friendly the future is as well as how the online, available anytime trend is just a wonderful thing that I am super excited about.
Anyways back to reading as well as managing time so that somehow I not only catch up on all this wonderful news, but also get to play Fallout 3 sometime this week 

Richard Harbridge<

The other day Michael Gannotti made a post about a very interesting SDK that popped up that helps enable developers create ‘touchless’ applications using webcameras.
Check out this short video clip here: http://communityclips.officelabs.com/Video.aspx?videoId=a89a217b-fc38-4a6c-87f8-ab59a2028391
Or endeavour it out by downloading the demo here: http://www.codeplex.com/touchless/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx
I remember a plethora of applications like this that used to exist, but it was really hard to find a good SDK to help you get started or give you an area in the community to share ideas, as well as now it looks like things are moving in a good way. Especially as the cost of touch screen technology as well as multi touch technology is still far more expensive than a simple camera  
It’s very cool stuff as well as I highly recommend checking it out: http://www.codeplex.com/touchless

One question I am requested often is how I manage my SharePoint projects, what stages I go through as well as how I perform/manage each phase of a project. This is probably something you already do, but perhaps it’s good to see some examples of how other people manage projects, so feel free to read along.
Personal Note:
This is a high level summary of what I do in a typical project as well as is not every individual item. SharePoint is also mentioned throughout this article because of the fact that it is the technology I an estimated all often utilize when working on projects as well as organizing information.
Before the Project Starts
Before I start a project I create areas to capture knowledge (KB, as well as lessons learned), following that I begin the process of the project itself. This is important to do right at the start because of the fact that even during the pre-project phases you can come up with some interesting notes, concepts, or lessons learned.

I had of course heard the term Identity Lifecycle Management, as well as understood that it had something to do with centralizing as well as helping users manage identities across systems as well as all that jazz. Any IT jock or person involved in Technology should understand (and hopefully does) that Identity Management is probably the an estimated all integral part of any system. Hell, even with anonymous systems it still uses a form of identity management because of the fact that these systems must be ‘administered’ by someone as well as that someone has an identity on behalf of utilize with that system.
So I decided to look a little more into it, as well as to say I am impressed by the solutions as well as ideas that people have come up with in relation to Identity Lifecycle Management solutions would be definitive understatement. I trust the best term on behalf of how impressed I am by this would be at the ‘totally freaking wicked awesome’ level. I know.. I am excitable, but seriously if you haven’t ever really read about or looked into Identity Management or Identity Lifecycle Management (which shall be referred to as ILM from thi