Author: gregoryheller
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Pitching In The Strike Zone at the Seattle Interactive Conference 2016
In my session, Pitching In The Strike Zone: Unlocking Your Authentic Voice For Success In Business at the Seattle Interactive Conference on October 18th, I mention the following resources, some of them on my website here, and others from elsewhere on the web. It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Advice for…
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On Translating Really Big Numbers and Giving Them a Human Context
Today I encountered an article about a topic that interests me, food waste. I didn’t get too far into it before my mind (and fingers) were off on a tangent.
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Clarify not simplify
Just to remember a maxim inspired by Nigel Holmes: visualizations and infographics must never simplify; they must clarify. And, in order to clarify, sometimes you’ll need to increase the amount of information included, not reduce it.
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It’s not just what you say, but how you say it: Tips for improving your communication skills
Communication skills are critically important to success in most industries, even if a position itself does not count among its responsibilities “communication” or “public speaking” you will need to communicate well to land it. Entire books have been written on communication skills, from those specifically about public speaking, to others about designing persuasive presentations, and…
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Shrink that giant Powerpoint file
We’ve all probably run into this at one point or other: you’ve created a visually stunning Powerpoint deck, but the file is absolutely huge! You can’t email it, or it just takes forever to open or save it… well there is a solution: In PPT for Windows, file > save as — tools, look for…
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Do you manage social media for a Washington food business?
I am conducting a survey and interviews about food industry use of social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Tumblr, blogs) for a presentation at the 10th Farmer-Fisher-Chef Connection presented by FORKS on March 21st. If you are responsible for posting to social media for your Washington based food business, please take a few minutes to…
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Bernie Sanders’s Revolution Needs a Better Plan
If Bernie Sanders is serious about a political transformation in America, he needs a better plan. Source: Bernie Sanders’s Revolution Needs a Better Plan I am particularly interested in this section of the article: But Sanders could invite artists from all around the country, famous or not, to create work that spreads the message of…
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On Enemies and lukewarm defenders
This is a great quote from Niccolo Machiavelli (thanks to Dave Roberts for sharing it over on Vox): It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of…
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Stop referring to yourself as consumers…
“Stop referring to yourself as consumers. Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.” — James Howard Kunstler (TED Talk)
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Hacking and password security
My recent article on why password security matters to all of us, and especially those of us who run accounts for organizations and businesses, originally posted on the Resource Media Blog. Another day, another data breach. We have been inured to the news of corporations being hacked and our data being spilled out into…