Welcome to our new website. After feedback from presentation attendees and a LOT of encouragement from Jennifer, I finally decided that a website might be useful. From my perspective, the site has one primary objective–to provide a single location that contains all relevant information concerning our enrichment speaking endeavor. This information should be useful for prospective clients that want to know more about my background and presentation portfolio. It will also be a place for additional interaction between us and our audiences. With that said, now let’s take a tour.
HOME
This is just a splash page to get attention, present the site objectives, and provide the main menu.
ABOUT US
Clients want to know my background to assess my qualifications as a speaker. Audiences want to know more about us from a human interest perspective. This page provides enough basic information to satisfy these basic needs. If we find there is a demand for more, I will add buttons to this page that will provide access to more in depth biographies.
PORTFOLIO
This page provides access to all of my currently available presentations. The presentations are in pdf format to reduce storage requirements and are viewable without download so that viewing them does not require download time or storage space on the viewing device. I endeavor to only speak on topics for which I have personal interest, knowledge, and experience. Thus, the only notes used for the presentations are the information slides that appear in the presentations. There are more of those type slides in the historical presentations because I must speak on those topics based on research rather than personal experience so my memory is not as good on those topics.
You will note that the presentations come in a variety of formats. The reason for this is that some clients require me to use their format. There is considerable work involved in changing the format of a entire presentation. I like to keep the pictures as large as possible, so a change of format usually involves re-cropping every picture in the presentation. Also, in preparing for each assignment, I go through the presentations that I will use and edit them so as to include any new material that I may have obtained and make adjustments so as to make them better, based on audience feedback.
Finally, this page provides access to a video sample of an abbreviated version of one of my presentations (about 20 minutes) and a list of my engagements both past and future.
PHOTOS
The purpose of this page is to share photos with interested parties. Since we really, really like cruises to Antarctica and Alaska, I have started off posting mostly pictures taken in these two areas. Hopefully, these pictures will help convince prospective clients that we have a great deal of experience and enthusiasm for these two destinations.
This page will also be used to share photos with those who would like copies of photos they see in the presentations. In the past, we have had requests for photos and had to set up special online share folders. Now shared photos will be added to this page.
Now a little bit about how the photo share is set up. The photos are stored on my Google Drive space. Clicking on the button results in following a public link to the folder on my Google Drive where the photos are stored. The photos can be viewed in list or thumbnail form. To change between the two viewing formats, there is an icon box in the upper right corner of the page showing a column of lines (list) and four black squares in a square (looks like a little waffle). Click on the waffle to get the thumbnail view. Double clicking on a photo will open a larger version of it in a viewer. Once the viewer is open, you can click on the arrows on the right or left sides to move to other photos in the folder.
To get back to the website after viewing photos, left click on the “back” arrow in your browser. If this does not seem to work you can do one of two things. Either hit the “back” button multiple times or right click on the “back” button and then select one of the website items from the list.
Some folders will be for viewing only. Those folders will not allow you to directly download the photos contained within the folder. Other folders will allow you to download any or all of the photos. The folders allowing download will have a trailing DL on the access button. I encourage anyone to download all the photos they like for personal use or for teaching purposes. However, I do not want any of the photos taken from this site to be sold for any amount in any format. If you wish to use any of my photos in any way that produces revenue, please contact me to negotiate terms and to acquire my written permission.
BLOG
You are on the Blog now. We will use the blog to post articles on topics that our audiences request or in which they show a continuing interest.
CONTACT US
The best way to contact us is via email. This page has our email addresses dedicated to our enrichment speaking activities. We will try to respond to your emails in a timely manner. However, we like to travel to out of the way places so that we are sometimes without communications service for extended periods of time. Be patient. We will respond when we have time and a good connection.
Cheers! Dr Steve