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Check out the latest innovation from authorstream.com. Not only can you upload all of your huge PowerPoint presentations and convert them to flash. Now you can put them on Youtube.com and even watch them on your iPod.
I recently was a guest on Joan Friedlander’s Beyond Billable Hours monthly
teleforum to discuss social networking.
We discussed:
1. How to get the most from Social Networking by combining it with face-to-face networking.
2. How it may be the future that replaces email, and why that might be attractive.
3. How business owners can use the 2 primary networks to increase your exposure and help develop your products and classes.
4. Why Facebook is not just for “kids” and how to use it to promote your business.
5. How various people make choices about which invitations to accept, and which to decline.
6. How to get started if you’ve not yet done so.
Please listen to the recording and chime in
Podcasts are a great tool for promoting a business and elevating it to a position of authority within an industry. With that in mind, it’s important that the recording be authoritative, purposeful and professional. Below are some tips & tricks to keep in mind when recording a podcast.
Remember to:
1. Use a land line.
2. Keep the handset close to your mouth.
3. Don’t use speakerphone.
4. Speak clearly and succinctly in your normal speaking voice.
5. Don’t mumble.
6. Record in a quite room with a door.
7. Hang a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door.
8. Turn off ALL electronics and equipment that might make noise.
9. Don’t worry about mistakes they can be removed during editing.
What makes a good podcast?
Have a reason for podcasting. Make sure your message is clear and concise. Rehearse the important points before you record to ensure the information is received correctly by the audience.
Continue reading ‘Podcast Recording Tips & Tricks’
Thousands of people go to Wikipedia.org every day to get information on a plethora of topics, but most don’t realize how easy (and fun) it is to create their own wiki.
About six months ago, we decided to implement our first wiki. We wanted to create a private resource for internal use that would be a place to document company processes, post contact information and useful articles and share knowledge. To do this, we chose the mediawiki platform as the software to use for our company wiki. Although our team is learning to integrate the wiki into their day-to-day activities, things are starting to take shape. Over the course of this implementation, we’ve learned some important tips and elements to consider before starting a wiki.
An excellent resource to evaluate and select your wiki platform can be found at www.wikimatrix.org.
What Is A Wiki?
You can find several working definitions, but I like to describe wikis as Web sites that allow visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also permits linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.
Continue reading ‘Wiki Six: Starting Your Own Wiki’
Thanks to Adobe and to Chris Converse for coming all the way out from the city of brotherly love and showing us the many reasons we need to consider upgrading to Adobe CS3.
For those who made it out to OC/DC (Orange County Design Conference) I thought I’d post a few photos on flickr to check out this years Expo and Conference.
And of course props to our supporters — you guys rule. Please use these vendors if there is an opportunity to do so. They help keep our association alive and active!
Apple, Dual Graphics, Neenah Paper, We Do Graphics, 944 Magazine, Markzware, WunderMarx|PR
All Day Adobe Seminar
If you’ve been thinking about expanding your software skill set its time to see what Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 has to offer designers as they expand their work into interactive PDF, animation, mobile devices, and the web. Learn some easy techniques in InDesign that result in more interactive PDF documents. See how Photoshop integrates with Dreamweaver and Flash. Learn how Illustrator lets you prepare your work for Flash. We’ll be taking a look at the possibilities of moving content between mediums, and the tools that let you collaborate, share, animate, publish and distribute your work to as few, or as many, people as you wish.
More details and registration info go to http://orangecounty.aiga.org/ocdc.php
I recieved an e-newsletter from a friend mine who brought up a topic that has been a pet peeve of mine I started using computers.
The issue is that some people are still putting two spaces after periods.
The extra space dates back to the days of the typewriter, when each character occupied the same amount of space. A period took the same space as any other character, so you needed that extra space to create a visual break between sentences.
In today’s world it’s typographically correct to put only one space after a period.
Ever since type went electronic, fonts are fixed-width and each character’s space is determined by its width. So now the period occupies only a small amount of space and an ensuing single space is all the visual break you need between sentences. This also eliminates visual rivers through a full page of type and will improve readability.
So take your thumb off the space bar and make all your documents look great.
Jonathan Good
This is absolutely amazing. Check out this video.
Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multi-touch driven computer screen will change the way we work and play.http://fastcompany.com/video/general/perceptivepixel.html
I wonder when Best Buy will start carrying these?
Apple strikes once again with the new iPhone. I think it might be the coolest looking new phone since the Razor or the Pearl. Can’t wait to get my hands on one of them (despite the price tag).
Ms. Dewey is ready to answer your questions…
Maybe someday she’ll be able to work in customer service. Wacky gal.
