Nothing beats seeing your beautiful Haiku Deck up on a large screen. Here’s how:
We’re proud to showcase Haiku Deck tonight at Ignite Seattle 17. Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. Since then Ignite events have sprung up the world-over. Each Ignite speaker gets 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide. Yikes! Our talk is entitled “Bullet Control Now,” a homage to Chris Rock’s argument that if bullets cost $5000 each, people would think twice about killing one another. We couldn’t agree more and we think the idea ought to be extended to bullet points too. We hope you enjoy the deck and we’ll post a link to the video as soon as it’s available. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
After tons of hard work and more than a little hand wringing, we finally submitted our release build of Haiku Deck to Apple for approval. Apple has a relatively stringent quality control process, so we were more than thrilled to receive notice that our app has been approved for worldwide distribution via iTunes. Here’s the Haiku Deck that Kevin wrote to show our appreciation for Apple’s app approval team.
One of our favorite ways to use Haiku Deck is to take great blog posts and bring them to life by matching key points with awesome images. Recently we were honored by Brad Feld (investor, entrepreneur, and mentor extraordinaire) who reposted our summary of his thoughts on Marketing. This got us to wondering… What’s your favorite blog post of all time? Is there one that makes you laugh? Cry? Taught you something new? Send us a link at info@haikudeck.com and we’ll consider making a Haiku Deck homage to the post here.
We believe everyone has great ideas and fascinating stories itching to get out. We also believe that crafting ideas and releasing them into the wild should be a joyful exercise of creativity. In the age of smartphones, tablets, and web connectivity, sharing thoughts is easier than ever, but getting people to listen? That’s another challenge completely. We also believe that listeners deserve to be captivated and inspired, not filled with despair at the sight of another dull presentation.
This is why we set out to create Haiku Deck, a simple way to instantly unleash your ideas through beautiful decks that are as visually stunning as they are easy to create. Haiku Deck’s image search engine spurs your creativity by providing a beautiful photographic backdrop to accompany your written words. We suggest related terms to help you find the perfect image and we even let you use your own photos if that’s what you want. Haiku Deck also includes easy-to-use design filters, helping you pick the perfect look for your deck, without requiring any design skills. Our goal is to make you look your best, every time you share.
Lastly, we know that inspiration can strike any time. Wherever you feel like crafting a Haiku Deck, just pull out your iPad. And whenever you have an audience–whether it’s on the bus, at a cafe, in a conference room, in an elevator, or on a stage, your Haiku Deck is there for you.
Most presentation tools aim to pack in as many features as possible with complicated menus, toolbars, and a range of capabilities to address every possible use case. Haiku Deck is intentionally simplified. We’ve focused on making it fast and easy to create the kind of decks you share every day. Here are a few ways you can use it to set your story free. We can’t wait for you to try Haiku Deck and send us your feedback at founders@haikudeck.com.
Six seconds. That is, on average, how long you need to work on your abs. It is also how long recruiters spend scanning your resume before they decide to keep or toss it. (Read the cold, hard truth here.) It doesn’t seem fair when you’ve probably spent six hours or even six days or weeks crafting your masterpiece, but that’s the reality.
We’ve spotted some helpful articles explaining how to optimize your resume for speed-of-light scanning, such as 10 Ways to Craft Your Resume for Ultra-Short Attention Spans, from Fast Company, and How to Make Your Resume Last Longer than 6 Seconds, from Time. And while we get the importance of maximizing white space and stripping out distracting details, we also believe there’s a time and a place for personality, creativity, and fun.
Our challenge: Try using Haiku Deck to create a visual resume. Sure, you’ll probably need a “real” one, too, but there might be times when a creative twist will help you stand out from the crowd. Here’s mine. And we’d love to see yours–you can post your links in the comments.
(By the way, we’re hiring! Send us your resume at jobs@haikudeck.com)
