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Friday, March 19, 2010
How to make a lower third with Sony Vegas. · Create a new project. Open Sony Vegas and create and name a new project. · Select the background color and pattern. Public Speaking: Adding a Lower Third to Your Video Public speakers who produce and sell videos have extra opportunities to draw people to their websites. By adding a feature call “lower thirds” to your public speaking video, you can publicize your web presence to your viewers.
 
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Earlier this week, I offered you some lessons from the Twitter CEO's unsuccessful SXSW keynote : Let the audience express itself early, don't sit to be sure you project energy, be interactive with the audience when you represent an interactive technology and plan, plan, plan your content. It's no surprise that we're seeing cases studies coming out of the recent SXSW interactive conference of what to do--and what not to do--when trying to mesh old-school speaking standards with the new Twitter backchannel. Today, New York University professor Jay Rosen--who refers to "the people formerly
 
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Think about the energy you'll project. No one would have bet on this, but by all accounts, yesterday's SXSW keynote by Twitter CEO Ev Williams flopped. Louis Gray sums up what happened succinctly: After thousands of Twittering geeks and quasi-geeks alike had settled in to the packed exhibition hall and overflow rooms to hear the latest updates delivered straight from Twitter's leader, their excitement soon turned to boredom and finally, severe annoyance, as the interview's pace, tone and content fell well below expectations .
 

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How many executives really want to sit through a 45 slide project update presentation? It doesn’t matter whether you are a formal project manager or just managing the projects that are part of your role, we all have to report on how our projects or initiatives are going. Let me suggest that you use only five slides to update executives on your project. “Five The one where the presenter details every little item and confuses the heck out of them? My guess is that no executives want to spend their valuable time that way.
There was a time, a million years ago, when projected material at events could only be made by seasoned production professionals, who knew a lot about creating a spectacle. And way up there on the global scale of video projection genius is Netherlands video production company Nuformer We’ve posted about building projection before , but this takes it to an entirely new level. Then the invention of PowerPoint infused the DIY ethic into 95% of presentations. Anyone could knock some visuals together, so we ended up with presentations that were democratic, affordable,
Are you a member of Toastmasters International and have completed your 10 speeches earning you Competent Communicator status and are looking to start the Advanced Manuals? Maybe you’re considering doing the Humorously Speaking Manual ? Keep in mind that the Humorous Speech Contest comes up once a year.
Here’s an article from UK’s Telegraph describing what was uncovered as a result of the Darwin Correspondence Project which is attempting to compile 15,000 of the [...] ...Tags: Tags: Link Love Correspondence Project Darwin Hair colo Turns out Charles Darwin took this question very seriously! Who knew? He
But Jim Healy, CEO of FormRouter.com and a major supporter of the GreenPDF project, called me to explain that too many people seem programmed to hit that darn "Print" button -- instead of browsing the document online. The Goal of the GreenPDF project is raise awareness of the issue. But Jim Healy, CEO of FormRouter.com and a major supporter of the GreenPDF If you use the free Microsoft PowerPoint Add-in that converts ppt files to pdf files, you can take one extra step to be nicer to the environment. You can convert your basic PDF file to a GreenPDF. Don't print that PDF!
Olivia Mitchell has gathered blog posts and e-mails from 40 contributors on our wishes and fantasies for PowerPoint design in 2009 . But that's not all: she has gone on to analyze and synthesize the posts around some central themes: whether design matters, simplicity vs. detail, design and presentation issues agreed upon by most contributors, and predictions for 2009.
0160; The only way to rid ourselves of Larry Summers might be to save our pennies and buy him a ticket to Mars via Project Virgle .  He outdoes the outer limits of the Peter Principle.  0160; The more he seems to screw up the better positions he gets.  0160; Unfortunately, the first spaceship doesn't leave until 1214. ...Tags:
The episode had a fictitious group (the Cartographers for Social Justice) present to some staff members the problems with the Mercator map and why it should be replaced with Peters Projection map (seen below).  While companies do still print the Mercator Map for wall maps, most schools have begun to switch over to the Peters Projection map. When I was growing up studying geography, my school, like every other school in the world, used what is referred to as the Mercator Map. This map, as shown above, is something that you will probably recognize.
Be on time for meetings. If you are late, you show a lack of respect and self-organisation. Respond to messages. Even if it is just a one line to say that you received the message, let the sender know that you are onto it. Dress for the occasion.
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