Garr Reynolds from Presentation Zen and Nancy Duarte from Duarte Design gave talks at the SlideShare office.

1. Garr Reynolds (of Presentation Zen) at SlideShare

2. Nancy Duarte gave a short talk to kick off the evening

3. She talked about how we are born storytellers, but loose the skill

4. We had cleared out all the desks to make place to sit

5. 3 ways to use slides: document, teleprompter & presentation

6. Garr began with talking about Japanese aesthetic

7. and finding zen in presentations

8. He talked about bad presentations

9. and some really bad ones

10. People were engaged

11. Garr called the room layout very “California”

12. Nancy & Mark from Duarte Design

13. Garr’s mantra

14. Changes in presentation design

15. a hazy picture of Bush & Blair

16. “ Presentations are a balance of three rhetorical proofs: ethos (ethical), pathos (emotional) and logos (logical)”

17. Yes, Garr did talk about SlideShare!

18. The food and Kaliya Hamlin

19. yes, we had cupcakes! yes,

20. the question-answe session

21. Nancy answering a question

22. Hillary Hartley with her copy of Presentation Zen

23. Marissa our new admin

24. Marissa and Rashmi

25. Stowe Boyd with Hiren Patel in the background

26. Garr with fans

27. Nancy answering questions

28. Ario and Rick

29. Ario posing with the tshirt, Rick posing with his photogenic smile

30. Kellan from Flickr & Jasmine

31. Kellan wearing SlideShare tshirt

32. Leonard (from Upcoming) & Marissa

33. Larry Cornett & Micah Alpern (Yahoo) & Daniel Lieberman (Bitpusher)

34. Garr in SlideShare tshirt!

35. Daniel, Rashmi & Garr

36. SlideShare cofounders with Garr Reynolds

37. Another take: Jon, Rashmi & Garr