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April 2004 |
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The Gettysburg Address on
PowerPoint? Corporate Presentation Spoofs Proliferate. |
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“Hi. I’m Abe
Lincoln. My first slide lays out a timeline for our nation.
As you can see reading from left to right, it really all started four
score and seven years ago. . . .”
Of course
that wouldn’t have done at all. But if there is any doubt that
there is a growing backlash against PowerPoint, you need only
look at the proliferation of PowerPoint spoofs on the
internet. A funny one is Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address,
www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm.
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Video-conference by Movie Set? That's the Dream of Ohio
Start-Up. |
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Remember those old Japanese movies where the
lips stop moving long before the voice stops
speaking? Too often that is what it’s like
participating on video-conference calls.
Usually, the sound technology is a poor
simulation of reality and the video makes the
participants look tiny.
But that won’t be the rule for much longer if
Telesuite,
www.telesuite.com ,
has its way . Telesuite is an Ohio-based start-up that wants
to make video-conferencing more user-friendly.
They are doing it with better technology and an
emphasis on trying to make video-conferences as
“real” as possible. |
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Is
There A Code Against Smiling at Work? Sometimes That's
the Way it Seems. Too bad. |
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“There are
some people who raise their upper lip so high, or let the
lower lip sag so much, that their teeth are almost entirely
visible. This is entirely contrary to decorum, which forbids
you to allow your teeth to be uncovered, since nature gave us
lips to conceal them.”
Those
words are come from a 1703 book entitled “The Rules of
Christian Decorum and Civility.” But to look at the serious
faces in corporate boardrooms today, you’d think it was an
excerpt from an employee handbook. |
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From John Belushi to Winston Churchill. A History of the
Motivational Speech. |
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To our
mind, there’s nothing much more motivational than John
Belushi’s (aka Bluto Blutarski) famous speech at the end of
the movie “Animal House” when he is trying to motivate his
sad sack fraternity brothers.
"Over?
Did you say over? NOTHING is over until WE decide it is! Was
it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL, NO!"
But that
is just one of the many motivational speeches reviewed in a
wonderful article by Christopher Hitchens on Forbes.com.
The article entitled, “You Can Do It! A History of the Pep
Talk”, can be found at
www.forbes.com/fyi/2003/1110/070.html.
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to Nail Your Next Big Presentation? Let Our Coaches Help
You Be a Star! |
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Ford introduced the Model T, the joke was that you could have
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same way.
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