~ Cliff Atkinson Armed with laptops and smartphones, audiences today are no longer sitting quietly taking notes during live presentations. Instead, they’re carving out a new space in the room called the backchannel, where people are online searching for resources, checking your facts, and connecting with others inside the room and out. http://bit.ly/9te2mW
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~Kenko Yoshida
"Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse"~ Japanese Proverb Since Ancient times, Lighthouses were used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals and reefs, often in inaccessible locations. They exist because storms exist. They symbolize safety, guidance and Integrity. Sometimes in our lives, we find ourselves in difficult places. But the truth is that it […]
The voice is the richest, most versatile communication tool we possess. It is also the most overlooked and underrated in terms of the attention we give it when thinking of our presentation skills. Most people take their voices entirely for granted. Ninety percent of Americans have never taken a course in singing, breathing, enunciation or […]
"The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it." -- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea
Among other changes heralded by the e-book era, digital editions are bumping book covers off the subway, the coffee table and the beach. That is a loss for publishers and authors, who enjoy some free advertising for their books in printed form: if you notice the jackets on the books people are reading on a […]
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Are you into "natural parenting"? Do you parent according to the principles of "attachment parenting"? Regardless of your label of choice, deciding to embark on a non-mainstream parenting lifestyle means making yourself vulnerable to all of its one hundred and one challenges. When you choose to use cloth diapers, co-workers will call you "strange." When […]
Remember when you were a kid and you read Where’s Waldo books? “Where’s Waldo? Where’s Waldo? Where’s Waldo ?!?” The fun of the books was not in the story line, but scanning the complex illustrations to find your friend in a red striped shirt hiding in the crowd. During the process, your level of awareness […]
From Publisher's Weekly ... Rick Riordan's Big Year The bestselling author has two brand-new series and a film of his first book ... With two new trilogies launching this year, Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan stands likely to boost his already (ahem) Olympian output—and sales. On May 4, Disney-Hyperion will release one million copies of […]
