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Death by PowerPoint in 1841 via Knoodle

26/10/2012

Death by PowerPoint takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the unfortunate tale of William Henry Harrison, our nation’s ninth president. Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1841, back when there was something called the Whig party and everyone lived without electricity. At 68, he was the oldest president elected to […]

How to create a stunning background effect in Prezi.com – YouTube

17/10/2012

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This looks amazing!! Now Shipping: The #Evernote Smart Notebook by #Moleskine

03/10/2012

Since we announced our partnership with Moleskine, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the day Evernote Smart Notebooks would begin to ship. Today, Evernote Smart Notebooks are beginning to make their way to those who placed their pre-orders (most of you should receive them within the next week). If you’d like to get one for yourself, buy […]

A Definition of Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneur.

24/09/2012

A Definition of Entrepreneurship The concept of entrepreneurship has a wide range of meanings. On the one extreme an entrepreneur is a person of very high aptitude who pioneers change, possessing characteristics found in only a very small fraction of the population. On the other extreme of definitions, anyone who wants to work for himself […]

Amazing!! New iPad Act – Stockholm with Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales – from MIPIM in Cannes v 3 – YouTube

19/09/2012

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PowerPoint: The Extreme Makeover Edition (Before and After Slides) – via Forbes

19/09/2012

Don’t blame PowerPoint for a boring presentation. The problem with today’s typical business presentation is NOT PowerPoint. The storyteller is the problem, the presenter who creates wordy, text-heavy slides and uses dull, convoluted jargon and buzzwords. In a previous column titled, Jeff Bezos and the end of PowerPoint as we know it, I made the […]

It’s Not ‘Rigour’, It’s Politics! – etc: a great blog from my friend @davidpriceobe

18/09/2012

OK, that’s it. Up with it, I will no longer put. For years, I’ve taken part in debates about education and nodded my head in a serious manner whenever someone used the ‘R’ word. I mean, what else can you do? Say ‘No, I don’t approve of rigour’? I’ve increasingly felt, however, that it was […]

A Presentation App That Forces You To Tell Better Stories – could Haiku be the answer to death by powerpoint?

17/09/2012

The dangers of bad a PowerPoint presentation are manifold. It might just mean putting your audience to sleep, or running afoul of the High Council of Information Design. But if your presentations have wider reaching concerns, like those given routinely by members of the U.S. Armed Forces, bad slides can have far greater consequences. In […]

How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple’s Secret Employee Training Manual full of NLP, modelling and persuasion

29/08/2012

We recently showed you just how badly some of Apple’s retail elite behave when no one’s watching, but surely they were taught better, right? You bet they were: Apple tells its new recruits exactly what what to think and say. How do we know? We read Apple’s secret Genius Training Manual from cover to cover. […]