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Hiking Vancouver Island – Tod Inlet
Tod Inlet is one of my Favorited places on the Saanich Peninsula near Victoria, British Columbia.
A little more playing around with the focus and exposure then I usually do on these shots.
Make Power Point Suck Less
WARNING… content may be offensive to any employee that has been knighted as “Communication Professional” by their corporate head office.
This is my very special Power Point “Do Not” list. If anyone is offended by the following content then you need to examine your Power Point Habits.
Power point offers about 50 different slide transition options. 48 should be completely ignored. The nice smooth alpha fade works well. The ‘Horizontal Bars’ effect can also be used in certain applications… such as high school communication classes, frat party invitations and porn.
…and please amuse us by using a different transition on every slide… this technique is punishable by harsh mocking laughter.
Power Point has the ability to allow objects to move, slide in, drop out, jiggle and do a whole host movements that take the viewers attention away from the presentation. Microsoft staff do not take these options seriously…. they put these in thinking that if communication professionals are distracted by shinny moving objects, it will take their attention away from what is generally a bad product.
Power Point has the ability to add sound. Save the whoooshing sound effects for when you are playing Jedi Knights with your nephew. Nothing is more distracting then trying to focus on what a speaker is saying while his presentation is going ‘TINK’ every time a block of text falls into place.
Power Point has the ability to place a rather large amount of text on a single slide. Ask yourself…. Do you prefer the audience to pay attention to what you are saying or to read War and Peace through binoculars? Main headers and emphasized points only please.
Do not simply read from your presentation. The audience has taken the time to source out and show up to your presentation and they are expecting you to be able to expand on, what should be, a very condensed visual accompaniment to your spoken word.
Give clip art a rest… the internet is full of free stock photography that can be converted to background images or placed graphics… use them… wisely.
WARNING… content may be offensive to any employee that has been knighted as “Communication Professional” by their corporate head office.
This is my very special Power Point “Do Not” list. If anyone is offended by the following content then you need to examine your Power Point Habits.
Fun with multiple exposures
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Yard work is so much easier for Josh now since the ‘INCIDENT’
Hike — Mount Douglas
Was kind of a drab boring day with absolutely no colour to the sky… and the trail was very muddy with many fallen trees because of the storm yesterday.
Hike to McKenzie Bight
Mckenzie Bight & Timberman Trail near Victoria, British Columbia
Register your business with Google
Register your business with GoogleIf your business is not registered with Google then it needs to be….
Shortly after getting my new HTC Hero (Android if you are from the U.S.) Michelle called me from work and asked if I would bring her something from Noodle Box. As I was waiting, for nearly 30 minutes in their small and crowded reception area, I saw a sign that said that I could have pre-ordered my meal. I used my phone’s GPS to peg down my location on Google Maps, search for Noodle Box near my location then clicked on ‘Add to Contacts”. I will never need to wait in line there again and was able to spend the rest of my wait reading reviews on the food I would soon be eating. (Outstanding by the way)
A couple of days later Michelle and I were driving through Parksville and remembered that we were told about a great little East Indian restaurant near there. Once again I used Google Maps to peg down my location and searched for East Indian Food. I found the restaurant, pre-ordered a meal from the contact information and got directions to the restaurant.
Shortly after, I drove to Nanaimo for a trade show where we were expected to speak on social media. Being completely unfamiliar with the city I simply entered the name of the venue in Google Maps then followed the little dot on my display all the way to the conference center.
I can no longer count how often I used Google Maps to find restaurants and other services, scan reviews, or get directions to my next appointment.
A fantastic service that continues to expand. So much easier then online yellow pages with so many additional features… and so much more sustainable then a phone book. I certainly am not the only person out there using Google Maps, both on my mobile and on my PC. Register your business, for free, immediately.
If your business is not registered with Google then it needs to be….