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Posted by on Nov 20, 2009 in communication, education, personal development, technology | 0 comments

The following are successful posts from the archives: The Five Habits of Highly Passive People 5 Assertiveness Techniques The Ten Worst Business Phrases of All Time The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Schools Convert You-Tube Videos for Embedding in PowerPoint How to Be...

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There’s Something About PowerPoint

Posted by on Oct 2, 2009 in communication | 4 comments

Did you know that August this year saw the 25th anniversary of Microsoft PowerPoint?  I can sense the yawns already… To honour this great event, the BBC New Magazine knocked up a few interesting articles  by way of sharing the boredom.  The first was called The problem with PowerPoint, which contains a nine slide PowerPoint presentation – geddit? – on the history of the...

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Convert YouTube Videos For Embedding in PowerPoint

Posted by on Nov 7, 2008 in technology | 3 comments

YouTube is a powerful medium.  PowerPoint can be a powerful medium, if used correctly.  To aid your visual learners, who prefer to see something, rather than listen or do, add YouTube videos to PowerPoint presentations and play them without need of an internet connection. Stage 1 This set of instructions assumes you use Mozilla Firefox as your web browser.  If you don’t you’ll...

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Prettifying Your Presentations With PowerPoint

Posted by on Oct 31, 2008 in technology | 0 comments

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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