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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
It's poignant here, because so many thousands of people looked forward to this keynote as a highlight of the interactive conference--even Gray's piece is titled, "The SXSW Keynote With Ev Williams You Had Hoped to See." His long wishlist for the talk indicates that would-be attendees came there--as most audiences do--with many questions they'd hoped the speaker would answer. Any time you have a room bursting at the seams (and overflow rooms needed), or a controversial topic, or major news pending, it pays to let the audience express itself early in the session--even if you only take
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
0160; In her book TALKING FROM 9 to 5: WOMEN AND MEN AT WORK, Tannen brought out how this tended to be a bonding device for women, even professional ones, at work. 0160; Few of us professionals are complaining in a work setting about anything. Way back in 1994, linguist Deborah Tannen brought "troubles talk" to the surface. 0160; An increasing number of sophisticated women found that ritual annoying and time-consuming.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
0160; And the question is: Will it be influential enough to crush Carly Fiorina's competition in the U.S. No matter if Fiorina wins or loses, video is now essential in any campaign, even if it's for a freelance writing assignment. Multi-media is everything. Senate race. 0160;
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
So I was happy to get a tip from Thorsten Happel in Germany about this cool remix below called Typefaces Give Us Signals. Watch it below or on Vimeo.
Typefaces give us signals from erik spiekermann on Vimeo . Typomania Below is the original video made for the BBC nearly 25 years ago from which the audio clips from Eric Spiekermann were remixed to create something more appropriate for our time. Although I'm a big fan of Eric Spiekermann (see this older post on Helvetica ). So, are you a typomaniac?
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
That was startling to a lot of them, even after I'd shown them the Notes pane in PowerPoint and the Presenter view (where they could see their notes, but the audience would see only the image on the slide). To help them understand the possibilities, I showed them four versions of the same presentation, based on one my older son had done for this same teacher two years ago. There is no way text has any of the same properties, even when describing the same material. The relevance for you? 1) Don't bore your audience. TALK ABOUT A TOUGH CROWD! If you think it's hard
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Monday, October 6, 2008
don’t even want to THINK.
That’s That’s why I never even bring “hard” books on business trips. Like the other day, I was sitting at the bar in O’Hare, totally engrossed in the latest Mitch Rapp book, where Mitch is yet again defying the pansies in the U.S. But then he kept talking—even though I hadn’t said anything yet.
“Yeah, Anyone who reads this blog knows that I don’t like talking to people at airport bars.
Normally, Normally, I’m a pretty social guy . . .
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Monday, October 19, 2009
0160; The guys there ain't even trying, or it seems to me.
0160; Most of us have made up our minds. No newsflash, WIRED has another layoff again. 0160; On Gawker.com, Hamilton Nolan reports that six more have been let go. 0160; The surprise is that Conde Nast didn't cut the whole thing loose to float away in the second wave of digital.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
0160; I might even be faring better this downturn than the beautiful babes.
0160; For the latter, they might even have had to wait as restaurant management found legal ways to can the less attractive.
Except for those brief times I blossomed in my 20s, 30s and early 40s, I have been a plain Jane. 0160; In addition, nature didn't bless me with good legs.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
With the emergence of an alleged #7, you can forget even trying to get your clients media attention today. 0160; All of us, both on the web and in print, are focused on Holly Sampson who sometimes goes by the name Nicolette Foster. 0160; According to the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS , her film credits include "Descent into Bondage" and "Diary of a Horny Housewife." quot;
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
0160; Even her home-state critic former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel is saying that she will run for U.S. The Talented Mrs. Palin has gotten that hot. President. 0160; In Politico, Jonathan Martin quotes Gravel as predicting "she's going to surprise a lot of people."
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Yet, even with this pedigree, he shared with many of us that disease to please, at least for a while. Eagerness to please puts us in a position of weakness. 0160; It also makes us a sitting duck for manipulation and abuse. Joseph P. Kennedy was not a self-made man, Cari Beauchamp documents in her 2009 book "Joseph P.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Meanwhile, the theme from this particular episode is not to judge, even if you are a judge. On the plane back, the sign-off message is that none of us are equipped to assess what might constitute a "sin" and what would be the appropriate "punishment" for it. In tonight's episode of "Criminal Minds" Aaron Hotchner still looks awful. 0160; He feels an acute sense of responsibility that his family must remain in protective custody.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
believe there is. Below are 10 things (plus a bonus tip) that I have learned over the years from designers, things that designers do or know that the rest of us can benefit from. The goal of this activity is to get people thinking about thinking about design, something most of us never do (it also gets people in the audience talking, loosening up a bit; always a good thing). Click Most people do not really think about design and designers, let alone think of themselves as designers. But what, if anything, can regular people — teachers, students, business people of all
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