Sharing presentations with Slideshare
I've done plenty of presentations to various sizes of audience but the same problem always comes up, apart from the fact that the projector doesn't work about half the time. The other problem is that once you have finished, that's it, end of all that work. Sure, you can hand out slides but if you are using your presentation tool correctly, most of the content is missing from the slides, its in what you say and how you say it.
Enter Slideshare, a free service for rescuing all that hard work and making it available to others, those who were at the conference but have forgotten just what you said, or fell asleep during it, and especialyl those who didn't get to the event. [Read more →]
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December 7, 2009 No Comments
Watching change happen
Some days you can get to see that something big has shifted in the way the world works. Twenty years ago it was the sudden and unexpected collapse of the Berlin Wall and when things happen on that scale seeing the change is easy, but sometimes the change needs to seek you out and slap you awake. Like this. I’ve Got Nothing: Crowdsourced Song Created by YouTubers [Read more →]
November 10, 2009 No Comments
Broadband internet, civil right, silver bullet or mirage?
New Zealand is going through the throes of trying to figure out how to deliver real broadband internet access to all of us. despite the fact that 1.1 million of us have existing levels of broadband, the real deal is a different thing altogether. While we worry about how to spend a billion or so on the technology, one country at least is starting somewhere else. Finland First Country to Make Broadband a Legal Right [Read more →]
October 28, 2009 No Comments
Setup your windows start menu for speed
This is a sort of test for a piece of software called Jing that lets you record how you are using your computer. This is also a way of demonstrating training tools that can be used online for pretty much anything about computers.
This demo is how to set up your Windows start menu so that you don't have to use the mouse to start your regular programmes but instead you can launch your favourite software with only two keys, your Windows key and a single letter key.
October 9, 2009 No Comments
Inappropriate use of video
Video can be a very powerful tool for getting a story across when its used well, but when its used inappropriately, it is worse than useless; it becomes a hindrance to your objectives. Like this.Video: Low-Cost Search Tactics. [Read more →]
September 9, 2009 No Comments
