Prettifying Your Presentations With PowerPoint

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Dan McMillian trashes the usual mistakes made by PowerPoint presenters – the funnist presentation I’ve seen in ages.  Here’s the challenge: I’m delivering another presentation early next week.  Have I avoided all the things he’s hitting?  I’d better go back and check!

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Body to Body, Funk to Funky

So this week I’m resting frorm the rigours of teaching another public workshop at Queen’s University, Belfast.  The subject?  Body language.  The title?  Body to Body: How to Communicate Without Words. It’s the second time I’ve led this workshop at Queen’s.  Both times it’s been the largest, most popular course I’ve ever taught.  Both times, the...

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Five Things Never to do at a Networking Meeting

Who says tradition is out? OK, I have my digital camera. I love email. I’m an avid blog reader. I know what the credit crunch is. I’m even following the American election trail, via Twitter (only on alternate weeks though). But, some things just work. So, when it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.  What am I whittering on about?  Networking!  Yes, you can network via...

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Slurp Your Blog With Blurb

Meandering from Twitter to the web and back again, I came across a new word.  Slurp.  Where I come from that is something you do with your tea.  Or if you’re not very well brought-up, your soup.  You may even do it to a McDonalds Toffee Sundae.  In any case, the words blog and slurp do not normally appear in the same sentence, where slurp is the verb and blog is the noun. The website...

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