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Hugh Macleod at gapingvoid.com has decided that, after 10 years, he will no longer blog his cartoons: But like a lot of the folk who have been blogging for a long time, I’ve started to feel that over the last few years, that the blogosphere has just gotten too big, noisy and anonymous. Like many bloggers, I’ve used Hugh’s cartoons to illustrate my posts and presentations and today’s reflects the zeitgeist, especially amongst my fellow free I’ve started longing for the days when things were ’smaller’, ‘clubbier’, intimate and, well, human

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Life, on the Net, is too short

Last October the Ark group invited me to present on my experiences in facilitating CoPs in a global firm. I found gathering the material quite easy as I have been blogging about the experience from day one. Blogging is superb for memory management (capturing raw fragments as they happen and getting feedback).

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My experience facilitating CoPs so far – presentation

So, viewer discretion is advised. If you are interested in this, I will be doing a Virtual Presentation – Ten eLearning Predictions for 2010 that will be closely aligned with this post. Also – I’m asking for a bit of help at the bottom to identify Prediction #10.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Six Minutes weekend reviews are back for a third year of bringing you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: speechwriting lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.; structuring your presentation logically; becoming aware of your voice; benefits of a flip chart; mistakes with visuals; speaker habits; stages in a professional speaking career; and more! From the Six Minutes Archives  One Year Ago from Six Minutes … Speech Analysis: I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King Jr

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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-01-15]

An early version of his thinking (related to a KM context) is here , and he is gunning to present some more developed thinking on this at the Boston Enterprise 2.0 The KM4Dev folks have been having some interesting discussions on monitoring and evaluation, and this blog post represents a very sophisticated and promising direction. Some updates on the monitoring and evaluation of KM front. My contribution to the Carliner & Shank Elearning Handbook was on establishing the value of an elearning initiative, and reviews a range of valuation methods to consider.

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Blog>> Metrics, ROI, Monitoring and Evaluation Again

The last couple of days I’ve been searching and evaluating some point of sale systems for a friend… I found a excellent solution from openbravo ! It has just one problem (that could easily be fixed using WPF). The software is designed to run on 1024 x 768! Their are some tweaks you can do to force it to run on 800 x 600 but some panels still do not render properly! I want to run this solution on a panel pc that can only do 800 x 600! Introducing the ViewBox “Defines a content decorator that can stretch and scale a single child to fill the available space.” Now I can place my content inside the ViewBox and always assume I will be displayed at x resolution, if not… it will auto-magically resize it for me!!! Easy

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View-the-box

This weekend was Devs4Devs and we had a blast! Here is my slide deck SketchFlow in 20 minutes or less Thank you to everyone who attended my session! Since joining BB&D , I also get a opportunity to present ASTRA or TR sessions, here is the slide decks of my recent presentations Composite Application Library (PRISM) SketchFlow What’s new in Silverlight 3.0 ImagineCup 2009 – Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008 I will also start slowly uploading older presentations from Tech-ed and Developer Days!

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Devs4Devs “The Challenge”

Ever noticed the subtle progress overlay while downloading something from the internet? With Windows 7’s new taskbar, applications can visually display their progress on the taskbar! We first need to set the mode TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressState(TaskbarProgressBarState.Normal); The Windows 7 taskbar has 5 possible states NoProgress – No progress is displayed. Indeterminate – The progress is indeterminate (marquee).

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Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Progress

Everyone breathes. It’s one of the most natural things we do. However, if you ask singers to name the most important part of vocal technique, 9 out of 10 will say “breathing.” So, is there some special way to breathe that makes your voice better?  Yes! In this article, we explore breathing as it relates to vocal variety as a speaker .

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Breathing: The Seductive Key to Unlocking Your Vocal Variety

While many articles try to dissect the process of designing a logo itself, I will attempt to share tips from my experiences with branding-focused logo design for the real world. Photo by lpwines With the surge of “stock” logos, the quality of branding for new companies is literally going downhill. Many new designers fail to see that a logo, unlike any other design element, is literally the face of a company, and hence attached to a much larger beast

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5 Branding Basics Every Logo Designer Should Know

It turned out that the people we were presenting to were endowed with all the responsibility to implement the project, but none of the power to make the important decisions – such as which consultants would be hired. Josiane Feigon , author of the bestselling book “ Smart Selling on the Phone and Online ” and creator of the top business blog Cubicle Chronicles has identified the six transforming sales trends every busy web worker needs to know about to survive and thrive.

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6 Sales Skills to Supercharge Your Productivity

Nancy Duarte, and the crew at Duarte design recently posted a video they created for Microsoft to show off PowerPoint 2010 called “Five Rules for Presentations ”. From their blog : “We used PowerPoint 2010–and only PowerPoint 2010–to create a short trailer sharing “5 Rules for Creating Great Presentations .” (See Read more at the Duarte Design blog . It’s got some great advice in it, and clocking in at just under 5 minutes it’s a quick watch too

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Duarte’s Five Rules for Presentations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 scientific and technical achievements represented by 46 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at The Beverly Wilshire on Saturday, February 20, 2010. Unlike other Academy Awards to be presented this year, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2009. Rather, the achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures

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Academy Hands Out Sci-Tech Honors

Also note, that while I submitted several presentations , that does not mean that I will end up moderating all of them if they end up being selected. As we did with the San Francisco event where I submitted sessions that were accepted on enterprise micro- blogging and OpenSocial in the enterprise, we can load-balance and shuffle moderators. My co-worker, Alice Wang, and myself will present research findings on how organizations Community voting is now open, if you find the sessions below of interest, please participate in the selection process

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Session Proposals

Paper presented at: Challenging higher education: knowledge, policy and practice: Society for Research in Higher Education conference 2009, 8-10 December 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/discovering-and-building-the-knowledge-base-of-information-management-through-different-roles-and-spaces The other speakers in the symposium were, like me Academic Fellows in the Centre for Inquiry Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (CILASS): Tim Herrick from the Institute of Lifelong Learning and Claire Rishbeth from the Department of Landscape (all of us teach at Sheffield University). Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Discovering and building the knowledge base of Information Management through different roles and spaces

Came across a great Ignite video through the Information Aesthetics blog today entitled “Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization”. Presented at Ignite DC by Alex Lundry ,VP and Director of Research at TargetPoint . It’s an entertaining presentation that looks at how visualizing data can make it more memorable and also covers some data-visualization “sins” that occasionally For those who don’t know, the Ignite format is a presentation style where a speaker has 5 minutes to give their talk

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Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization

Sony Pictures Animation’s smash 3D animation hit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs serves up a hilarious, mouth-watering food storm of epic portions on Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, 2-Disc super-size DVD, 1-Disc DVD, and PSP January 5 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Based on the beloved bestselling children’s book, the CG animated film features the all-star voice talents of Bill Hader (Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian), Anna Faris (House Bunny, Scary Movie franchise), James Caan (Get Smart, TV’s “Las Vegas”), Andy Samberg (TV’s “SNL”), Mr

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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs on DVD and Blu-ray, Plus More

As an aside, one of the vexing issues of writing occasionally for an industry blog like FASTForward is that you get pitched (spammed) by email from every PR dog and her or his master on the off-chance you might decide to write a few words.  This Many management gurus claim “people matter,” but still relegate strategy to an elite set of executives who focus on frameworks, long presentations , and hierarchical approaches. Following up on my recent post about employee engagement being a core goal for the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities, here’s a snippet from Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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More on Employee Engagement and the E2.0 Environment

key words while presenting social networks to a new audience. Collaborative platforms offer single entry point and search engine on company knowledge (Wikis, Forums, Blogs , documents …). In the blog post, she mentions a study published in the  Journal of Educational Psychology , in which researchers found out that  : Students who learned with personalized text performed better on subsequent transfer tests than students who learned with formal text.

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6 reasons to encourage enterprise conversations with collaborative platforms « Heavy Mental

The web development scene is moving forward at a lightning-fast pace, and it’s imperative that developers continue to keep their skills fresh. If you’ve been involved in front-end design or development in any form over the past five years or so, then it’s very likely that you’ve experimented at some point with one of the popular JavaScript libraries, many of which have become quite prominent and are now used on a number of large commercial websites.

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Getting Started with jQuery