I often find carrying a plug in my back-pack with my laptop awkward. The video below shows and inventive and creative solution to my problem (A folding plug! Can you believe it?)
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I found this article while browsing Unclutterer.com orginal post can be seen here
1. Know the room. Be familiar with the place in which you will speak. Arrive early, walk around the speaking area and practice using the microphone and any visual aids.
2. Know the audience. Greet some of the audience as they arrive. It’s easier to speak to a group of friends than to a group of strangers.
3. Know what your talking about. If you’re not familiar with your material or are uncomfortable with it, your nervousness will increase. Practice your speech and revise it if necessary. If you have speech writers and they write you the best speech in the world, and you don’t understand the topic of which you are speaking of, then you will have a hard time getting the point across to your audience.
4. Be funny. When speaking be sure to incorporate a few jokes and personal stories that pertain to your topic.
5. Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice loud, clear, and assured. When you visualize yourself as successful, you will be successful.
6. Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be interesting, stimulating, informative, and entertaining. They don’t want you to fail.
7. Never apologize. If you make a mistake, then just take a pregnant pause for a couple seconds to gather your thoughts back into order, and begin again.
8. Gain experience. Experience builds confidence, which is the key to effective speaking.
9. Maintain eye contact. A major part of good public speaking is to keep stable eye contact with your audience members. Focus on a specific person, then a few a seconds later switch your focus.
10. Be yourself. Simple as that.
Author: Tommy Fishback
I have been following OLED Tech for a little while.
I currently own a 17” LCD TV bought in about 2005 for around the £300 mark this resides in my bedroom and is some times used as a secondary monitor for my Apple Mac
The TV in my living room is a (I believe) 32” 4:3 CRT set given to me by a friend who no longer required it.
Apart from the lack of money (and the fact I watch very little TV) I refuse to upgrade the the TV set in my living room to a 32” plasma/LCD I plan on leap froging plasma/LCD technology in favour of OLED TV’s.
OLED televisions are literally razor thin, and also (as far as I am aware) operate on a pixel level meaning if there are blacks in a video scene individual pixels on the TV can be switched off, allowing for more truer blacks and better contrast (or so the manufactures would have the buying public believe)
Some mobile devices are already using OLED technology for their display screens, the video below demonstrates OLED’s durability
Will you be upgrading to OLED once the technology is more widely available or are you already with what you currently have?
This video shows how easy it is to edit someone out of context.
I often wish I had a TV card so I could monkey around creating this sort of thing.
Let me know what you think to the video, does it entertain and amuse you, or do you see it as a waste of time with no real value?
Thanks to GeorgieBOOM for bringing this video to my attention
Konichiwa Bitches Blip from Robyn on Vimeo.
To me this video typifies web video.
The vast majority of video I consume is online, made by independent “bedroom” producers.
Conventions that are typically used to engage the online viewer are fast cuts that often produce a jerky result. (This is vastly different to anything that I have seen used to engage a TV audience)
Cuts between shots are often at various different “interesting” angles
I think this video has the perfect mix of a professionally produced video crossed with the edgy editing this is used by bedroom web video producers
What do you think? I would love to hear you comments on this subject
My friend Sarah is trying to win a competition.
It would be great if you can all go vote for Sarah Austin here http://lihdinsider.livinginhd.com/2009/10/living-in-hd/
Please help me get the message out by retweeting, facebooking and reblogging here on tumblr would be great too
I will love you for ever if you help out!! <3
Yah, where is my jetpack?
They lied to us…
Not only is this video funny! It is one of the best video’s explaining “What is Google Wave?” that I have seen so far
(If you do have a spare invite please let me know)
“100 days ‘til 2010. Where’s my space ship?” — (via zadi)