If you have to put together an effective and communicative Keynote or PowerPoint presentation for the first time, don’t panic. Follow these simple steps and you’ll wow them in the back rows.

Remember: content is king

Research your topic thoroughly.
Make sure any images you use to illustrate your presentation are appropriate to the point(s) you [...]

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You’ve spent a lot of time preparing your latest presentation, put in the perfect visuals to emphasize your points, but now discover that your PowerPoint file is gigantic in file size!  How do you get it into a smaller more palatable size?
Simplebyte offers a 5 step solution to work your way around this:

Trim and compress your [...]

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I was recently talking to some senior high school students about how you e-mail people in the business community, prospective employers, college professors, etc. The majority of them had no idea how to approach the matter, and those that turned in example e-mails misjudged the tone you should take when writing a formal e-mail.

Things [...]

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Need more visitors to your site, but don’t know where to start? SEOMoz website has come up with a list of 21 tips that will help you do just that.  Here’s a summary of some of the less obvious ones which I found useful.
Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
First and foremost, you’re writing [...]

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If you’re keen on simplistic minimalist weblog design, you might want to check out Plaintxt.org, a website dedicated to, well yes, minimalist WordPress themes.
Although Scott’s designs might not be as fancy or colourful as some of the myriad themes out on le internet, they’re extremely light and fast-loading.
What’s more, they’re also pretty [...]

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Never check your email first or last thing each day, reckons LifeDev, because it slows you down and affects the way you work.
I can see how useful adopting this tip would actually be because I tend to suffer from stacks of email each day! I also, like many people who work with a computer, [...]

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Eric Giguere has some excellent advice for getting relevant AdSense ads that particularly relevant to bloggers. He includes two examples that show how just one word can result in different ads being rendered.
Sometimes all it takes is one word or phrase to trigger different ads.
Although Eric’s suggestion that you should change the URL structure [...]

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While I don’t think anyone should ever add the over 124 extensions to Firefox at any one time, I think a sect few of the list could really make FireFox into the number one browser for getting around the Internet.
The list below comes from Listible, and is easy to add to your site. My [...]

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Jason Unger provides some useful tips on how to maximise the moment every blogger dreams of: the day your story makes it to the Digg front page or is Slashdotted and your inundated with site traffic.

Make your RSS feed autodiscoverable
Include related content in your posting.
Be online.
Make sure your site is sociable.
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Desktop security is an old topic that is often addressed, especially within larger enterprises that require secure networks. Home users need not be scared of the internet, you can be protected!
Despite the constant emotions of fear and insecurity surrounding the topic of security, virus protection and malware, user education is the number one [...]

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There is no secret in the fact that bloggers, have ideas. It is also no secret, especially for those of us who blog, that these ideas typically come to mind at the worst possible times. Personally, I know there are times when I would get a fabulous idea for an article and [...]

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The great thing about the internet is that you can get your message across by using visuals or audio, or a mix of both. Nowadays, almost all businesses and individuals with an internet presence have their own podcast. While podcasting seems as simple as recording sound onto a computer, there are some things you [...]

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E-mail spammers are probably cursed on a daily basis, and it’s no surprise why. They waste valuable hours, disk space, and money each day. There’s little that the law can do nowadays to prevent spammers, but there are some steps you can take to make sure that your inbox stays spam-free.
Don’t use your primary [...]

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Office life can get so busy that most people find themselves thinking, “I wish I could add more hours to my day.” While there’s nothing you can do about the length of your day, you can definitely optimize the hours you have by using timesaving software. It’s rare to find a tool that can [...]

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Think that the password for your computer system, e-mail, web site, web forum is secure? Well, you might be wrong.
There are many programs on the Internet that can allow someone to repeatedly enter words from the dictionary into your user name and password field to attempt to gain access. This type of attack is [...]

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