Hate PowerPoint? Here Are 5 Web-based Alternatives
(www.readwriteweb.com) - Whether they're for clients, customers or colleagues, visual presentations are an unavoidable part of doing business. For years, Microsoft PowerPoint has been the standard bearer of slide presentation applications, but several Web-based alternatives ...
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HOW TO: Create Custom QR Codes for Your Digital Life
(mashable.com) - Quick Pitch: JumpScan provides a custom “all-in-one” QR code to link your physical and digital world. Genius Idea: QR codes have been all the rage this year for big brands, and now ordinary consumers ...
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Attention Seattle Smarties!
"Seattle GiveCamp happening Jan 14-16, 2011 - NEED YOUR HELP!" Seattle GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where technology professionals from designers, developers and database administrators to marketers and web strategists donate their time to provide ...
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50 Startup Logos from 2010
(blog.designcrowd.com) - Startups have flourished in 2010. The last 12 months have yielded some fantastic success stories. Groupon is a standout and is currently receiving a lot of attention, buzz and press. Some believe the ...
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Quote of the Day
"You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be ...
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Jobless claims drop below 400,000 mark
(CNNMoney.com) -- For the first time in more than two years, the number of Americans filing for their first week of unemployment benefits fell below 400,000 last week -- a ray of hope in the ...
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Momentum: The Key to Making Your Big Ideas Happen in 2011
(www.openforum.com) - According to Newton’s First Law of Motion, the tendency of a body in motion is to keep moving; the tendency of a body at rest is to sit still. In other words, it’s ...
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3 Business Tools to Spice Up Boring Work Tasks
(mashable.com) - The small business professional’s workday can be both tedious and mundane when it comes to necessary daily, weekly and monthly tasks that feel more like chores than accomplishments. Presentations for meetings or keynotes ...
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The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as ...
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Revamp Your Resume
(Alison Doyle on About.com) - This is a good time of year, and you should do it at least annually, to check and revamp your resume. It's important to take the time to write a resume that ...
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HOW TO: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
With more than 85 million members in more than 200 countries, LinkedIn is a professional social network worth using, understanding and optimizing. After you’ve covered the basics of setting up your LinkedIn presence, features including ...
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. — John Dewey
The future of advertising?
Photo Flash Technology Creates After Image Visible When Eyes Are Closed (AdAge.com) -- BMW Germany is literally getting into consumers' heads, by burning its logo onto the insides of their eyes. Using pioneering new "flash ...
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10 Creative Uses of the New Facebook Profile
(mashable.com) - Facebook users are showing off some serious creativity by taking advantage of the new profile page photo layout. French artist Alexandre Oudin (below) has been identified as the creator of the craze, and ...
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Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. — Tate Linden
Staying in School Forever
(Scott Young on scotthyoung.com) - As a species, our incubation period is getting longer. Just a few hundred years ago, finishing twelve years of education was uncommon. Today it’s difficult to get a job above ...
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7 things you should never say in an interview
(CareerBuilder.com) -- You dry cleaned your suit. You've got a dozen copies of your résumé, just in case. You arrived early -- but not too early. You silenced your cell phone. You made small talk ...
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Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. - Marshall McLuhan
10 Predictions for the News Media in 2011
(mashable.com) - In many ways, 2010 was finally the year of mobile for news media, and especially so if you consider the iPad a mobile device. Many news organizations like The Washington Post and CNN ...
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Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest
(yahoo.com) - The results are in for National Geographic's annual photo contest. The Grand Prize winner, chosen from more than 16,000 entries, is Aaron Lim Boon Teck of Singapore, who captured trekkers watching a volcanic ...
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Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. -Vincent Van Gogh