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What We Learn About Life from Fairy Tales. Note: The following is an adapted excerpt of my latest book, The Art of Work, which is now available at the lowest price it’s ever been on Amazon.

What We Learn About Life from Fairy Tales

At the beginning of every great story, before anything exciting happens, we see something that looks a lot like normal life. Embracing and Using Media and Technology explainED by LaReau Anderson. How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School. Presentation Quick Tips. Why Storytelling Is The Ultimate Weapon. In business, storytelling is all the rage.

Why Storytelling Is The Ultimate Weapon

Without a compelling story, we are told, our product, idea, or personal brand, is dead on arrival. In his book, Tell to Win, Peter Guber joins writers like Annette Simmons and Stephen Denning in evangelizing for the power of story in human affairs generally, and business in particular. PicMonkey: Free Online Photo Editing. Keys to Mastering Keynote. StoryKeepers - iPad StoryTelling APPS. Messages. Facebook_Best_Practices_2012.pdf. Talks about Storytelling. The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains. Why Storytelling Is The Ultimate Weapon. Center for Digital Storytelling - Home.

Free ebook - using Facebook for church ministry. [Please Share] Free ebook: Facebook for Churches is a 32-page quick read loaded with tips, examples and strategies for getting the most out of your church Facebook page.

Free ebook - using Facebook for church ministry

Whether you’re attempting to pick the perfect Timeline photo or trying to figure out what and when to post, this resource will help you. As we recently reported, a survey suggested that churches were finding social networking was twice as effective as other options for engaging with outsiders. If your church wants to start using Facebook effectively, this free PDF ebook is good place to start. Download free from Church Juice.

More free ebooks | More recent posts on social networking ministry Internet Toolbox for Churches If you are a church wanting to use digital media and social networking to reach out into your community, the Internet Toolbox for Churches resources – newsletter, podcast, videos and website – is a unique resource full of practical wisdom. Christmas resources. Praise Report: The Power of Social Media Empowered Prayer. Praise Report: The Power of Social Media Empowered Prayer User Rating: Prayer Published Date.

Praise Report: The Power of Social Media Empowered Prayer

5 Steps to Communicate Effectively Using Video. 1.

5 Steps to Communicate Effectively Using Video

Know your audience. Gather as much information as you can about your intended audience. 7 habits of highly successful speakers. Do you ever wonder what makes some speakers so successful?

7 habits of highly successful speakers

Have you ever been in awe of a speaker and pondered, "How did she do that? " The answer is through a lot of work. There are some people who are naturally gifted at speaking, but most of us have to work really hard at it. My first speech was the stuff of horror movies. Google-search-infographic.gif (GIF Image, 800x8848 pixels) - Scaled (7%) 7 habits of highly successful speakers. Do you ever wonder what makes some speakers so successful?

7 habits of highly successful speakers

What You Write About Doesn't Matter as Much as You Think. Presentations Made Easy. Free Widgets and Gadgets for your Websites. W. Ashley Maddox. New Chrome Extension Lets You Save Web Content to Google Drive. Google has launched a new extension for Chrome called "Save to Drive," enabling users to save web content to their Google Drive. After installing the extension, users will get an additional icon in Chrome, letting them save an image, an entire page or an image of the visible page to your Drive. Users can also save the HTML source code of a webpage or a complete webpage in web archive (.mht) format. Finally, they can simply right click on web content to save it directly to Drive. The extension offers several options to manage saved web content: Users can immediately open the file in Drive, rename it or view it in their Drive list, which provides additional options, such as sharing the file or placing it in a folder.

Google has also added new options for managing the images users store in Drive, including zoom by scrolling, new "fit to page" and "100%" buttons, as well as the ability to comment on a specific part of an image. Have you tried the new Save to Drive Chrome extension? GlobalCAFE: celebrating peoples, places, and purpose by GlobalCAFE Staff. A word to rioting Muslims - 9 Translation. Simple and Intuitive Web Site Navigation.

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Social Media. How to use categories and tags in your nonprofit blog - Social media and inbound marketing for non-profits. Publishing posts in WordPress (.Com and .Org) entails the use of categories and tags.

How to use categories and tags in your nonprofit blog - Social media and inbound marketing for non-profits

Essentially they’re a way for readers to easily find other articles on your blog. Sounds simple enough, right? How crowdsourcing is changing business, advertising and cause marketing. By now most of us are aware of various crowdsourcing campaigns being used to generate ideas, funds or support for a brand or cause.

How crowdsourcing is changing business, advertising and cause marketing

Pepsi’s Refresh Project, Mystarbucksidea.com and Dell’s Social Innovation Competition are three well-known examples. We are now witnessing a second generation of crowdsourcing efforts in which social entrepreneurs are reinventing their industries filling the voids left by traditional businesses. Kickstarter, for instance, is a new way for artists to fund and follow creative projects whether they are film, music, theater, events or gaming while still retaining 100% of the ownership.

YouBloom is focused on emerging music cutting studios, agents and traditional marketing out of the equation to enable people to fund the music and bands they want to hear. Video: Multi-Tasking is Bad For Your Brain. Here’s How To Fix It: Tech News « All the streams from the social web have created a flood of information over the past few years.

Video: Multi-Tasking is Bad For Your Brain. Here’s How To Fix It: Tech News «

With this influx of life and data streams comes the desire to stay on top of it all. And for many people, that means multi-tasking. Checking email while Tweetdeck keeps up with Twitter, while we pop over to Facebook to look at our friends’ latest photos. 10 Reasons You Should Run Like Hell From Social Media. I was sitting at brunch a few weeks ago trying to convince a colleague why it’s so important for today’s CEO to be involved and active in social media. I was trying to sway him on the benefits, the rewards and all the new opportunities that await the socially savvy-CEO.

I thought I was doing a pretty good job until my friend took a bite into his bagel, looked me in the eye and quipped, “…but that’s only if he’s smart enough to ‘get it’. Otherwise, he’s a liability.” He was right. Though nearly every business, regardless of niche, could find value engaging in social media, that doesn’t mean it’s meant for everyone. Indigitech - Resources to Reach the World. Debra Buenting on Colorado Shootings. How-to-mind-map.jpg (JPEG Image, 1754x1240 pixels) - Scaled (52%)

Flowchart Software - Online Flow charts software service with Realtime collaboration [2.3.6-r44, updated 2011/03/10 08:14 UTC] Developing a Culture of Creativity in Your Church.