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Comment on Public Speaking Tips by Ben Peters

Ben Peters — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:42:28 +0000

I like asking the audience questions – “raise your hand if…” gets people involved. And I like moving. Walking a little. Having moments where I talk almost directly to individuals in the front of the audience and ask rhetorical questions on different sides of the room. Oh – and Control W or Control B on the slides to turn off the deck and get people looking at ME and not the slides.

Comment on Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow by Ben Peters

Ben Peters — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:26:10 +0000

Problem is your choices – you either have too much or too little of both. I say short short hair, but not shaved, and maybe a couple days past George Michael on the beard.

Comment on Interface Not Supported – Windows 7 by Kris

Kris — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:13:50 +0000

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Comment on Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow by Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:30:47 +0000

Definitely hair and beard. It just looks much healthier.

Comment on Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow by ndy

ndy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:21:03 +0000

Hair and beard mate, don’t think you suit a shaved head but you could try a shorter beard with a shaved head too? Other option is FUE hair transplant to improve your hairline…something i’ve been thinking about for a while!

Comment on Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow by Danyal

Danyal — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:46:49 +0000

+1 hairy, looks good

We’re all losing our hair and perhaps to see it reminds us of our mortality, but do you throw away a nice cake because one day it will have been eaten?

Shaving is surrender.

Comment on Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow by Abdul

Abdul — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:53:23 +0000

Beard look is some thing typical in our perfessional role. Atleast you have started to bring the change in the community. I like it

Comment on Great Cookie Name by Jo

Jo — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:54:33 +0000

It’s millionaire’s shortcake! My favourite

Comment on Public Speaking Tips by Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:22:19 +0000

Glen, great tips, thanks for sharing. I’m a public speaking coach myself, I recently upgraded to a Mac, so I have keynote now – do you know if I can get powerpoint for mac also? I do miss their tools when creating presentations.

Comment on Microsoft’s Cluelessness by Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:38:08 +0000

One of the things I've learned after 30 years in this craft, including 3 stints at Microsoft, can be summed up by comparison with SIngapore politics (where I now live). One group-within-a-group, the extension of the inner circle around one man, have had total power for so long that they forget what having to actually deal with customers (citizens, voters) is like; they've forgotten how to actually respond to those whom they purportedly serve in any other way than "here it is; you'll do this the way We tell you to because it's the way We tell you to." They spend more energy, money and time "crushing the opposition" (or competition) that they've forgotten how to be for anybody or anything except themselves. I see Microsoft under Steve Ballmer as having many parallels with this current "third generation" political hierarchy. I'm often reminded of Apple's 1984 Macintosh ad; except this isn't 1984 so much as Animal Farm. John F. Kennedy may have been talking about political systems and Governments when he said "those who make peaceful evolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable", but I suspect we'll see some variant of that played out in the personal-technology industries over the next few years. Microsoft will continue to be King of the Hill, or "more clever than anyone else" (to use a local expression attributed to a Once-"Great" Leeader)… right up until they aren't. How the relevant "world" reacts to that change will be interesting, to say the least.