How to make better Power Point Presentations – Pecha Kucha

Solution to boring PPT Presentations– Watch a Pecha Kucha presentation. They are spreading like wild fire around the globe. Next stop: San Francisco, July 30th, 2009

How To Manage Your Reputation Online

How to manage your reputation online, see this SlideShare presentation which has some zingers!

The Conversation: Introduction to Social Media via Scribd

Here is a fabulous presentation breaking down different social media vehicles. 

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Bush versus Obama – look how far we have come!

Recently, there was a clip on TV about Japanese business people learning English using Obama’s speeches as models. It is pretty clear why this is a new trend and why they didn’t use Bushisms.

This is George Bush speaking, it sums up what we had to listen to for 8 years!

George Bush’s Speech

Oh, what a difference – listen to Obama speak:
Obama’s Inaugural Address

Now let’s compare that again: George W. Bush tells Pope Benedict that he made an awesome speech in Washington D.C. in April of 2008.
“That’s an awesome speech, Pope Benedict! “

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis – Web 2.0 in Images

Here is yet another way Brian Solis is able to make social media more dissectable for us. He writes:

“Conversations are increasingly distributed. This social distribution fragments our ability to connect with masses, but promotes a 1:1 approach that yields a one-to-many upside through the empowerment of influential social beacons.

The Conversation Prism represents that opportunity to proactively survey the landscape to pinpoint relevant dialogue, prioritize participation strategies, and create an engagement hierarchy and org chart.”

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas

Top Twitter Friends Map – Brian Solis PR 2.0

The newest blog by Brian Solis, Micro Disruption Theory and The Social Effect, is fascinating not only because of new disruptions trends he describes, but also because of the social maps he shows ( his own here) to to make our interconnectedness visible.

The Essential Guide to Social Media- Brian Solis PR. 2.0

Brian Solis‘:  The Essential Guide to Social Media

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International Panel: Seesmic, Ubergizmo, l’Atelier, CoolIris

Internationally Cool and Plugged In
02/27/09

On Wednesday, February 25th, we witnessed the latest and greatest in cool innovation and gadgets during Internationally Cool and Plugged In, the high-tech event we co-organized with GABA and FACC.

With a panel gathering such famous Web 2.0 entrepreneurs as Loic Le Meur (Seesmic), Eliane Fiolet and Hubert Nguyen (Ubergizmo), Soujanya Bhumkar (Cooliris), and Dominique Piotet (L’Atelier BNP Paribas), no wonder this networking night was a tremendous success with 150 guests!

Asked by Daniel Zimmerman from Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, and Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D., Professional Business Communications,  the speakers gave us an original insight on the challenges, good and bad experiences, and even personal issues they faced while developing their start up.

This exciting talk was an opportunity to gain inspiration, and network in the heart of the Silicon Valley.

[from FACC write up]                                                                                                                                                                                           Photos by Karsten Lemm

CNN Money Chronicles 21 Dumbest Moments in Business in 2008

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21 Dumbest Moments in Business 2008 (CNN Money)

This post was just too good to pass on. CNN. Money discusses the dumbest business moments – and probably some of the most difficult  -in 2008. Will we learn from them for 2009?

1) Detroit execs flying to D.C.: The chief executives of General Motors (GM, Fortune 500), Chrysler and Ford spark outrage when they fly their corporate jets to Washington D.C. to beg Congress for a multi-billion dollar bailout.

2) Detroit execs driving to D.C.: Given a second chance after the private-jet fiasco to plead their case before Congress, the Detroit 3 take to the road.

3) Henry Paulson’s initial $700 bailout proposal: All of three pages, the Treasury Secretary seeks carte-blanche access to government funding with scant details on how or where the money will be spent.

4) The final bailout: When Congress is done with it, the measure balloons to 451 pages and is loaded with pork barrel spending – including, unbelievably, a cut in taxes on toy arrows and an extended tax break on “wool products.”

5) The Mozilo e-mail: The now former Countrywide CEO mistakenly broadcasts his thoughts on a customer’s plea for help with a home loan.

6) The iPhone ‘I am rich’ app: Eight people download a $999.99 screen-saver for Apple’s (AAPL, Fortune 500) iPhone.

7) Paulson’s ‘bazooka’: The Treasury Secretary tells Congress in July he thinks he won’t actually need to use the funds he’s requesting to support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Tough talk from Fannie Mae: In May, CEO Daniel Mudd says his company will “feast” on weakened competition in the mortgage market.

9) Scandal at the Department of Interior: The agency’s Inspector General finds that staffers were taking gifts, having sex and engaging in illegal drug use with employees of some of the oil companies they oversee.

10) GM’s Lutz on global warming: The General Motors exec behind the Chevrolet Volt electric car hands environmentalists another twig to beat GM with when he reportedly calls global warming “a crock of sh-t.”

11) Hope for Homeowners – er, not really: Congress passes bill to keep hundreds of thousands of troubled borrowers in their homes. A whopping 321 applications get filed.

12) Ban the short-sellers: To head off a market onslaught, the SEC outlaws short-selling on 799 financial stocks. Remarkably, investors find other ways to punish the group and the sector sinks another 25 percent.

13) McCain on economics: On the morning of Sept. 15, as Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy, Republican presidential candidate John McCain declares “the fundamentals of this economy are strong.”

14) Obama’s tough talk on Nafta: A top economic adviser privately assures Canadian officials in February that his candidate didn’t really mean it when he threatened to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

15) Microsoft bids for Yahoo: The $31-per-share offer represents a 61% premium over Yahoo’s (YHOO, Fortune 500) price at the time of the February overture.

16) Yahoo turns down Microsoft’s offer: If Microsoft’s (MSFT, Fortune 500) offer for Yahoo was wrong-headed, Yahoo’s opposition to it was downright bone-headed.

17) The Madoff miss: As news reports reveal that the Securities and Exchange Commission had probed Madoff and his New York City investment firm over the years, chief Christopher Cox cops to the embarrassing screw-up.

18) Oil speculator scapegoats: Are speculators to blame for $37 oil too?

19) Steve Jobs’ obit: In August, Bloomberg News accidentally releases an obit for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who – despite a well-publicized brush with pancreatic cancer – is still alive and kicking.

20) Phil Gramm and the “nation of whiners”: In early July, as the financial crisis spreads to Main Street, McCain campaign co-chair and former senator Phil Gramm appeals to voters and their economic anxieties by calling them a “nation of whiners” and dismisses a troubled economy as a “mental recession.”

21) Bill Miller comes up short: The fund manager’s contrarian bets on Bear Stearns, AIG and Freddie Mac cost his investors plenty.

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