A strong post from Rowan on Powerpoint. He makes excellent points with extremely valuable supports. If your presentation consists of a PowerPoint and the File Properties tell you that the audience will be spending more than half of your allotted time reading your slides, I would recommend staying home and sending an email. http://fortifyservices.blogspot.com/2009/02/putting-value-on-your-audiences-time.html
Reading or interpreting text out loud is easier than it sounds. I’m going to highlight some of the pitfalls that I have come across and try to provide appropriate solutions too. http://prohumorist.com/?p=222
Winner: Guardian Children's fiction by Patrick Ness A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard — and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret. "Guard your heart - it will swell with compassion, it will be broken and it will […]
The Trout Opera Longlisted for the Australia-Asia Literary Award by Matthew Condon A stunning new novel - over ten years in the writing - from Matthew Condon. This book takes his writing on to a new level - this could be the next Great Australian Novel.THE TROUT OPERA - more than ten […]
'Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move." -- Betty Eadie
The Evolution of Katherine Lasky's One Beetle Too Many The work on One Beetle Too Many (Candlewick, 2009) began more than 24 years ago, according to author Kathryn Lasky. "It's amazing that I haven't evolved into another creature," the author states, referring to the process of bringing her picture-book biography of Charles Darwin to fruition. […]
by Chris Widener I receive many emails from people that basically ask the same question: How can I keep myself motivated long term? This seems to be quite a common dilemma for many people so I want to address it because it can be done! Here are my tips for staying motivated: Article continues
Chinese proverb: One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Sebastian Barry The acclaim that has greeted Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture is varied and enthusiastic, and it's not hard to see why. When Frank McGuiness praised it for ‘raw, rough beauty’ and described Sebastian Barry's fiction as ‘unique’ and ‘magnificent’, this claim was no hostage to fortune; […]
"You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself." -- Katharine Hepburn
