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Your iPhone Can Save Your Child’s LifeOctober 26 2008
CPR Baby by Zoomar

CPR Baby by Zoomar

I’m always searching for new apps for my iPhone, I was thrilled when I recently found a free version of PacMan. As I searched through the iTunes Music Store free apps section, I came across an amazing app that’s so much more useful than killing ghosts.

Phone Aid serves as a quick guide and support system should you need immediate instruction on how to help someone in a medical emergency. There are terrific illustrations and audio commentary that walks you through the steps to administering CPR, assist a choking victim and more First Aid.

I highly recommend you download this free app. I hope to heck you never have to use it.

This is the part that I add that I am not a medical professional, and that you should probably call 911 before you mess with any iPhone app.

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How to Learn EfficientlyOctober 21 2008
  1. You're reading an article.
  2. You read it again.
  3. You read it a third time.

On your fourth try, you finally understand the point of the article.

  1. You continually follow the same process throughout the day.
  2. You suck.

Here's how to learn quicker.

How to Learn Like Mofo on Roids

  1. Pick up a book.
  2. Set a timer for one minute.
  3. In that one minute, learn the entire book.

...or if you're reading some lame-o, boring-o bloggy blog machine badooper, try this:

  1. Open the article.
  2. Set a timer for 10 seconds.
  3. In that 10 seconds, comprehend the entire article.

Why Would You Learn So Well?

Because you're doing this:

  • You're forcing yourself to understand/comprehend/learn/grasp the BIG picture (i.e., the most important/vital/sex-ay info).
  • You ignore the shoddy details that take up space, mother-freakishly draining your time.

Wanna Be A Smart-Ass-Opper?

Do:

  1. 5 books.
  2. BAM-DAM-DAM-DAM-BAM-BAM!

Next thing you know, you've grasped the concepts of 5 books in a collective 5 minutes.

Hooray for you.

Learn like mofo on roido.

If you enjoyed How to Learn Efficiently, you might also like our business guide.

Not Just A Job Search Tracker - Why Professionals Need JibberJobberOctober 17 2008
Be prepared for career changes!

Be prepared for career changes!

Yesterday I wrote a post on JibberJobber as a job search tracking tool. That’s where the idea came from, and for the first few weeks we were branded as a job search tool. However, I realized early on that I wanted JibberJobber to be a long-term career management tool.

What does this mean?  And why is our tagline “Career Management 2.0?”

The cradle-to-grave job mentality is gone. There is no employer who will employ you from the beginning of your career until the end (some 40-odd years).  You will likely have more than 10 job changes in your career.  Penelope Trunk says in her book, Brazen Careerist, that Gen Y will have 10 job changes before they turn 30!  WOW!

You need to get good at finding that next job.  And the next one. Don’t treat the idea that you’ll be in transition as a pink elephant.  Embrace it.  Changing jobs, and

Experts Share Good ol’ Days of 35mm SlidesOctober 16 2008

Join Jim Endicott of Distinction Communications and Patty Clerico-Parham of Cisco as they share what the glory days were like before PowerPoint. These pros used to make slides by hand with equipment the size of refrigerators.

In case you’re too young to know what a 35mm slide is, here’s a scene from Mad Men where they are pitching an advertising concept to Kodak for a 35mm slide Carousel.

This interview is also available for download as mp3.

Topics

  • Tektronix for typesetting
  • DICOMED System
  • Patty talks about a time of 8-inch disks and Dark Rooms
  • $10-15 to manufacture a single slide
  • Genigraphics Consoles that cost $50,000 each
  • Building presentations in DOS with the command line
  • IBM Slides from 1975
  • Slideless presentations are dynamic, refreshing, human, genuine, trustworthy
  • Jim talks about sleeping bag overnighters for 30 slide prezos

Do Your Presentations Tell A Story?October 12 2008

When Words Lose Their Impact prompted a barrage of "favorites" from readers. I'm going to publish them in the next post.

Since the real issue is connecting effectively, the Mile High Pixie out in Denver added:

"This isn't words, per se, but I'm weary of presenters just reading their slides. I'm an adult with a Master's degree, bub; I can read fine. You need to tell me things that aren't on the slide, or take more off the slide so you can tell it to me yourself. Your words mean nothing if they're really just your notes that we're reading at the same time."

She's right. If you're going to read your visuals, then why not simply hand them out and leave the room?  All you are doing is competing with yourself if you read the same thing that is on the screen.  (Check out Jackie Cameron's article).

Too many, if not most, presentation visuals look like this:

  • 1. Bullet points with noun-verb-object. In other words, the slide makes the point before you do. People can read faster than you can speak.
  • 2. There are plenty of situations where "the numbers" need to be up there. It would be nice if they were large enough for people to see them.