Terrific Slide Presentation on Social Media: Different Background Colors, Good Photos & Typography,
Posted in the Category of Social Media
Have also been reading (and re-reading) PresentationZen, the new book by Garr Reynolds. A must, if you haven't run across it. It's filled with "befores" and "afters" of cluttered vs. simpler and more powerful slides.
Yes, of course I hate PowerPoint but if I have to use it I want to make better slides.
Why I’m Changing to Initial-Caps Titles for Blog Entries
Posted in the Category of In the News and Stuff
I hope the Blogging Grammar & Style Police are not out sniffing around today. They might quibble over this change. After using a lowercase style for my blog titles for the past three and a half years (with an initial cap on the first word), I've decided to switch to what looks to be the more standard initial-caps style for every word.
I'm doing this primarily because I think it looks better - and more authoritative - in RSS readers. Below is a snapshot of some of the feeds I look at in Google Reader on a regular basis. They're all using initial caps, including CopyBlogger which is ranked #31 in Technorati's Top 100.
Quoted in Investor’s Business Daily on China and Blogging
Posted in the Category of Global
After spending two weeks in China last fall I do not profess to be an authority. However, I did pick up enough to feel I could respond knowledgably to a reporter from IBD who called me about Internet censorship, the Net Nanny and the state of blogging in China. Here's the story by Doug Tsuruoka published yesterday: In China, Good Blogs And Bad Blogs.
"Weil says curbs on blogs and other media will stay for the foreseeable future. "What Chinese call the Net Nanny or GFW (Great Fire Wall of China) isn't likely to disappear anytime soon," Weil said.…
Business Week updates its iconic 2005 blog story with a new title ‘Social Media Will Change Your Bus
Posted in the Category of In the News and Social Media and Stuff
Full disclosure: I'm way behind in blogging while my offline move to a new house (and office) continues to unfold. Feeling very guilty about it. But it's a temporary hiatus. Or is it? See below for for a few thoughts about Twittering.
In case you missed it, Business Week has updated its by now iconic May 2005 article: Blogs Will Change Your Business. The new version is called Social Media Will Change Your Business.
Writer/editors Stephen Baker and Heather Green spent a month updating the article, re-interviewing…
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