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Full story: FIR Book Review: Resonate by Nancy Duarte
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, by Nancy Duarte FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew reviews Nancy Duarte’s Resonate. According to the Amazon.com review, “Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they’ve wasted their time? All too often, presentations don’t resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author’s first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong…
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Full story: Comparing the economic state of the states
Is the USA the world’s richest country, as many believe? I guess much depends on how you measure that. What about individual states? I’ve sometimes pondered that question myself, either in terms of outright wealth or economic measures like gross domestic product (GDP). Probably a familiar scenario is California, where it’s often said that if it were a sovereign nation, it would have the eighth-largest economy in the world as measured by GDP. It makes you think about other US…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #582: January 17, 2011
Content summary: FIR website sidebar updated and adjusted; new FIR Book Review is up; Chester Burger honoured on 90th birthday with scholarship; listener comments discussion; News That Fits: how schools can use social media to engage pupils, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, follow-up: was it really the most amazing press release ever written?, the Pentagon closes social media office, Lee Hopkins reports on communication and the floods in Australia, how should you respond to…
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Full story: Trust is key to avoiding a bad WordPress theme
A red flag waving is how I saw Siobhan Ambrose’s post a few days ago on why you should never search for free WordPress themes in Google or anywhere else. What Ambrose presents in her post is the result of some credible and compelling research she carried out into what could be going on behind the scenes and unknown to you in the WordPress theme you might be running on your blog if you obtained that theme as a result…
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