The PowerPoint custom animation they used Previous research has shown that where custom animation is used to deliver a familiar topic, the animation has a positive impact on student learning. Tags: Powerpoint custom animation PowerPoint presentation research Stephen Maha I thought that simple, non-distracting animations that brought in slide elements one at a time as I verbally introduced them was helpful. I

Yesterday, I reported on the results of an experiment into the impact of Powerpoint custom animation on learning . incrementally introducing information on PowerPoint slides via custom animation decreases student learning over having all information shown on the slide at the same time. Guidelines for use of custom animation I’ve now been given permission by the authors (Dr Stephen Mahar and colleagues) to publish samples of the screencasts used in the research. Summary of the experiment

Tags: Design custom type michael mann public enemie In an age where movie titles are becoming an industry of their own and the name of the game is crediting the Key Grip and Best Boy with increasingly obnoxious motion graphics gymnastics, Michael Mann has gone back to basics. For his upcoming “Public Enemies”, a crime drama set in the 1930’s, he commissioned Neville Brody to design New Deal, an original display typeface for titling and promotional materials.

The very best of the breed combine encyclopedic knowledge, extensive connections, and an innate desire to look after their customers. When your customers come to your website, they are similarly looking to you to solve their problems. Make sure that every major problem faced by your customers is matched by a critical mass of relevant content on your site. Think of yourself as the ultimate knowledge resource like those concierges serving fine hotels such as the Ritz-Carlton or the Four Seasons—But Available 24/7. When you find yourself in a new town but are blessed to

The recolor feature (FORMAT >> RECOLOR) can customize an image, saving a trip to Photoshop. The funnel image used the custom color recolor: For this presentation I needed to use the same content in 3 color coded sections. Once the funnel image was optimized and saved from Photoshop as a .png png with no background I was able to

How to Get Started on Cheap and Powerful Customer Studies Unless you understand your customers, you risk painful marketing missteps. Because we know that effective content marketing depends on a thorough understanding of your customers, regular research should be a core component of your content marketing strategy. How to Get Started on Your All-Important Customer Research Of course, it’s possible to do way too much research. That’s when you wind up with the paralysis by analysis situation.

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Customer service is always a high priority, right? What company would consciously make an effort to be known for poor customer service? You know as well as I that customer service is often lip service. Of course it is, and it's not the fault of the customer service rep, who most likely has faced the stick of enforcement--that's what "recording for quality purposes" The actual representatives you deal with go through the motions--their scripts for handling questions, complaints and requests. It's as if there is "no there there."

Whether or not you are actually sending out regular eNewsletters to customers and prospects, you should consider creating a special ‘tips’ eNewsletter for new users and/or testers. As it frequently does, the Avongate blog inspired me with a post that was specific to software companies that need to convert free trial users into paying customers. Guest blogger, Jason Cohen, CEO of Smart Bear Software A tips eNewsletter can work for a free trial or an actual purchase. But, he also suggested that the typical "thanks and hope you’re enjoying our software " was not much

Great customer service is such smart business. Tags: Selling Skills customer servic The simplest way to grow business is also the easiest… On a dirt road, currently in the middle of nowhere but directly across from the dirt road that leads to a new golf course development, in Hainan Island, China, an industrious and brilliant man built (literally by hand, and within a few days) a small “shop” that sells water, soda and snacks.