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They say the busier you are, the less you get done! Novem­ber has proved to be a busy month with loads of announce­ments from the likes of Sam­sung, Apple, Face­book, Sony, Google… the list goes on. This week’s DC is all about pro­duc­tiv­ity (at work and home), so don your specs, and read on.

F-mail

First a Hol­ly­wood block­buster, then the world! Face­book has stepped up to chal­lenge Google and Yahoo with it’s ‘not an email client’ email client. Face­book is giv­ing its 0.5 bil­lion users an ‘@facebook.com’ not-an-email-address address, and launched a sin­gle por­tal for SMS-ing, tweet­ing and email­ing through the Face­book frame­work.

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With a long his­tory in B2B mar­ket­ing, we’ve devel­oped a thor­ough under­stand­ing of how to approach this sec­tor in most mar­ket­ing dis­ci­plines. And paid search is no dif­fer­ent. A cou­ple of weeks back we flew over to Oslo to share some of our insights at the largest search mar­ket­ing con­fer­ence in the Nordics. Below are the slides from our pre­sen­ta­tion. Enjoy.

Search Mar­ket­ing for Busi­ness to Business

Every year, we run a series of inter­nal train­ing ses­sions called the Ban­ner Acad­e­mies. These are to help us share insights and infor­ma­tion across the com­pany. But, we fig­ured, why stop there?

So below is the pre­sen­ta­tion I gave yes­ter­day on writ­ing. It’s designed to be a prac­ti­cal col­lec­tion of tips and tricks – basi­cally, use­ful stuff I’ve learnt over the years from peo­ple far clev­erer than I.

The fast and dirty writ­ing academy

Should you wish, you can down­load a PDF of the pre­sen­ta­tion here and get the notes (which will make the most sense of it all) here.

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The ever-excellent Slideshare is run­ning its annual World’s Best Pre­sen­ta­tion con­test. Brows­ing through, there are some really nice decks with inter­est­ing con­tent. You can eas­ily see the influ­ence Pre­sen­ta­tion Zen and Duarte Design have had (all for the bet­ter) in the war against death by Pow­er­Point. I par­tic­u­larly like the following:

But…

The thing that strikes me look­ing through most of the entries is that the pre­sen­ter is almost entirely super­flu­ous. Surely pre­sen­ta­tions, at their best, are about pre­sen­ters mak­ing a con­nec­tion with an audi­ence – not sim­ply a set of slides that can be read through (how­ever pretty they are).

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