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How to plan it like a pro...
Make your guests feel special
Binu Bhaskar, of Dio Networks, recalls the bash that he planned for a top-level corporate party travelling to India for the first time. “We scripted a Secret Society party. The moment they flew into the city, the guests were driven in great secrecy in limos to their location. There was an initiation ceremony with chanting and sprinkling of holy water (staged with the help of a few theatre actors).”
Treat them like adults
Another idea that Binu’s executed for a smaller, more intimate gathering was sex-themed. “There were drinks with loaded names and a DJ who stripped on the console.”
Throw your back into it
Artist Sharwari and Arjun Tilloo are known in Bangalore for their costume parties. Sharwari says, “We love organising themes that involve elaborate costumes. One of our parties was themed ‘Porky And The Princess’ and everyone cross-dressed. The men came as princesses and the women butched it up.
Another big hit was the ‘Back to School’ party, which heaped on ’80s music and decor. Guests came in school uniforms.”
Aamir Khan keeps his word!
What makes a man perfect? When he keeps his word! And in that way, Aamir Khan is Mr. Perfection. The actor had promised Shanno, a female cab driver from Delhi that he would hire her vehicle whenever he is in the capital, and he kept his word.
Shanno met Aamir on the sets of his debut TV show Satyamev Jayate, where she came to tell her tale of being a victim of domestic violence. The star had later promised Shanno and her team that he will pay them a visit the next time he is in Delhi and will also hire Shanno’s cab. Sources say that the female cab drivers from Sakha were elated by the fact that Aamir kept his word and hired their services for the two days of his visit and also spent time interacting with them.
He was accompanied by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who after a tete-e-tete with the female cab drivers, was impressed by the thought and the work Sakha is doing for the domestic violence victims in Delhi.
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Fix Your Presentations: 21 Quick Tips
Drowning in a PowerPoint swamp? Use these easy tricks to make your presentations more compelling & persuasive.
Most business presentations range from incredibly boring to, well ... just plain boring. I'm sure you have a few offenders within your own team.
It doesn't have to be this way, though.
Here are 21 ways to make certain that your presentations hold your audience's interest–and help them make the decision you want them to make.
Preparation
- Build a story. Presentations are boring when they present scads of information without any context or meaning. Instead, tell a story, with the audience as the main characters (and, specifically, the heroes).
- Keep it relevant. Audiences only pay attention to stories and ideas that are immediately relevant. Consider what decision you want them to make, then build an appropriate case.
- Cut your intro. A verbose introduction that describes you, your firm, your topic, how you got there, only bores people. Keep your intro down to a sentence or two, even for a long presentation.
- Begin with an eye-opener. Kick off your talk by revealing a shocking fact, a surprising insight, or a unique perspective that naturally leads into your message and the decision you want made.
- Keep it short and sweet. When was the last time you heard someone complain that a presentation was too short? Make it half as long as you originally thought it should be (or even shorter).
- Use facts, not generalities. Fuzzy concepts reflect fuzzy thinking. Buttress your argument, story and message with facts that are quantifiable, verifiable, memorable and dramatic.
- Customize for every audience. One-size-fits-all presentations are like one-size-fits-all clothes; they never fit right and usually make you look bad. Every audience is different; your presentation should be too.
- Simplify your graphics. People shut off their brains when confronted with complicated drawings and tables. Use very simple graphics and highlight the data points that are important.
- Keep backgrounds in the background. Fancy slide backgrounds only make it more difficult for the audience to focus on what's important. Use a simple, single color, neutral color background.
- Use readable fonts. Don't try to give your audience to get an eyestrain headache by using tiny fonts. Use large fonts in simple faces (like Arial); avoidboldface, italics and ALL-CAPS.
- Don't get too fancy. You want your audience to remember your message, not how many special effects and visual gimcracks you used. In almost all cases, the simpler the better.
Presentation
- Check your equipment ... in advance. If you must use PowerPoint, or plan on showing videos or something, check to make sure that the setup really works. Then check it again. Then one more time.
- Speak to the audience. Great public speakers keep their focus on the audience, not their slides or their notes. Focusing on the audience encourages them to focus on your and your message.
- Never read from slides. Guess what? Your audience can read. If you're reading from your slides, you're not just being boring–you're also insulting the intelligence of everyone in the room.
- Don't skip around. Nothing makes you look more disorganized than skipping over slides, backtracking to previous slides, or showing slides that don't really belong. If there are slides that don't fit, cut them out of the presentation in advance.
- Leave humor to the professionals. Unless you're really good at telling jokes, don't try to be a comedian. Remember: When it comes to business presentations, polite laughter is the kiss of death.
- Avoid obvious wormholes. Every audience has hot buttons that command immediate attention and cause every other discussion to grind to a halt. Learn what they are and avoid them.
- Skip the jargon. Business buzzwords make you sound like you're either pompous, crazy, or (worst case) speaking in tongues. Cut them out–both from your slides and from your vocabulary.
- Make it timely. Schedule presentations for a time when the audience can give you proper attention. Avoid end of day, just before lunch, and the day before a holiday.
- Prepare some questions. If you're going to have a Q&A at the end of your presentation, be prepared to get the ball rolling by having up a question or two up your sleeve.
- Have a separate handout. If there's data that you want the audience to have, put it into a separate document for distribution after your talk. Don't use your slide deck as a data repository.
Google Chrome notebooks for schools sold out Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/google-chrome-notebooks-for-schools-sold-out
Google is trying its had into almost every industry and now its time for Google to dash out tablets and notebooks. So, recently released a refreshed version of its Samsung-made Chromebook laptop.
The new Chromebook is extremely cheap at just $99. It runs on the same low-cost processors many Android tablets and the iPad use. The Chromebook doesn't work like a laptop. Samsung lightened up this new Chromebook and it weighs a half a pound less than the previous Chromebook, at 2.42 pounds.
Specifications
The Chromebook is an 11.6-inch anti-glare screen, a 0.7-inch thick body, 6.5 hours of battery life, Bluetooth 3.0, and 100 GB of free storage for two years in Google's Drive storage service.US teachers flocked to school-centric charity website DonorsChoose.org to get Google's Chrome notebook computers made available to classrooms for just USD 99 each. More than a thousand US schools use Chromebooks in classrooms.
DonorsChoose is a website where people can donate money to back class projects or provide gear needed in cash-strapped schools based on needs or goals laid out by teachers.
Google on Monday said that Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks that teachers put on wish lists at DonorsChoose would be available for a price of USD 99 each in a hefty USD 330 discount from the starting price in shops.
Schools that have adopted Chromebooks, however, have been able to bring the web's vast educational resources - whether it's conducting real-time research or collaborating on group projects - right into the classroom.
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
My name is Jatin Kapadiya. I was born and raised in Ahmedabad. I have completed my graduation (Eng Literature) as well as B Ed from Gujarat University. At present I am pursuing MA ELT (English Language Teaching) from H M Patel Institute of TrainingEnglish & Research (affiliated to S P University) Anand, Gujarat. I have keen interest in blogging, web tools (esp. educational), academic writing and effective communication skill.I just love learning and sharing new technique/method/way which can improve my/our any of L S R W skills.
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