Procrastination, delivered! » linkOut http://singhsong.wordpress.com All about waiting for the apple to fall. Add yours - reach.singhsong@gmail.com Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:06:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/35e5fb777a32fd23e687c2302cd47355?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Procrastination, delivered! » linkOut http://singhsong.wordpress.com HappyNews.com http://singhsong.wordpress.com/2005/12/12/happynewscom/ http://singhsong.wordpress.com/2005/12/12/happynewscom/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:36:23 +0000 hs http://singhsong.wordpress.com/2005/12/12/happynewscom/ ]]>

CNN is carrying a news item on HappyNews.com (Website focuses on happy news) – a site which, true to its name, focuses only on happy news.

Credo of HappyNews.com is

“Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive” is what you’ll find on HappyNews.com.

We believe virtue, goodwill and heroism are hot news. That’s why we bring you up-to-the-minute news, geared to lift spirits and inspire lives. Add in a diverse team of Citizen Journalists reporting positive stories from around the world, and you’ve got one happy place for news. …”

Keywords: HappyNews.com, News, Happy News, Positive

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Almost all of us make presentations day-in and day-out, but have you paused and thought if the last presentation you made really made an impact?

Here are a bunch of links to good articles/resource pages that I came across. Some of them focus on the most (ab)used tool, PowerPoint but again, its the content and display that matters, PowerPoint is just a tool which can be used to heights of creativity/absurdness.

An ongoing discussion on 43Folders on personal presentation tips. And a old (started circa 2001), but current thread on Edward Tufte’s site: How to make presentations: techniques, handouts, display technologies

A good blog on presentation techniques is Presentation Zen that carries an excellent comparison of Gates & Jobs respective presentation styles: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic – it is really possible to make technical presentation to technical audience without using ‘bullet-points’!

Chris Campbell of ParticleTree has posted a compendium of PowerPoint and Presentation Tips. A couple of posts from Eirik Solheim’s blog: How to avoid making boring presentations and Presenting Software.

And then, there’s a really good essay by Seth Godin: Really BAD Powerpoint (and how to avoid it) [PDF].

PS: Give it away give it away give it away now … – a thought provoking article, related to Guy Kawasaki’s “Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant”.

Keywords: Presentation, Good Presentations, Content, PowerPoint, Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, Edward Tufte, Bullet point, Presentation Zen

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A cool gift for Lawyers and other billable-types – The Billable Hour Timepieces from http://www.thebillablehour.com/.

While still on lawyers, here is an interesting blog: the [non]billable hour by Matt Homan. Although the blog seems to be focussed on lawyers, most of the ideas presented lend themselves to all professions (with necessary tweaks, of course).

Keywords: Lawyers, Gift, Matt Homan, Billable Hour, Timepiece, Improvement Ideas, Personal Improvement

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