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Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. 7 talks that will encourage you to talk to strangers. Culture Thoughts from a twentysomething on Meg Jay’s talk on twentysomethings I’m 24 and a woman, and that makes me a target for a lot of speculation and life advice.

7 talks that will encourage you to talk to strangers

Sheryl Sandberg wants me to lean in to become a woman leader; Anne-Marie Slaughter says my lady parts may doom me to a half-fulfilled life; Susan Patton thinks I should have spent my time at Princeton […] Does documenting your life online keep you from actually living it? : An excerpt from the new TED Book, Our Virtual Shadow By Damon Brown The morning of our wedding, my wife and I only had one major discussion: Should we bring our cell phones? 28 Creative PowerPoint and Keynote Presentation Designs.

There’s a certain art to putting together a solid presentation and PowerPoint and Keynote are the primary tools of the trade.

28 Creative PowerPoint and Keynote Presentation Designs

The “art” comes into play when you’re trying to set yourself apart; so how you use the tools is of great importance. Often it is the design of the presentation itself that does the trick. In an effort to help you put together a great-looking presentation, here are 28 examples of creative presentation designs using Powerpoint and Keynote: 1. 1 Billion Hungry Project 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 40 More Slides + Memorable Quotes from Cannes Lions 2010 17. 18. 100 Beautiful Slides from Cannes Lions 2010 19. 20. 21. 22. 8 Minutes for Creative Refreshment 23. 24. 25. 2010 And Beyond 26. 27. 28. Presentation Resources There are plenty of great resources online for presentation design, here are a few: Know any other great resources? Popular search terms for this article:

Sticky notes and scratch paper - Vector. What steps should you be taking to "future proof" your information management career? Be More Productive at Work. Keep Your Desktop Neat and Tidy With These Built-in Organization Wallpapers. I second that, Fences is an amazing program that honestly microsoft should start building into windows.

Keep Your Desktop Neat and Tidy With These Built-in Organization Wallpapers

For those of you who don't know what fences is, it is a program that runs and allows you to make areas on your desktop and label them, you can then throw as many icons as you want into those areas. The areas are scrollable so you can hide away many of your icons to get a cleaner look while still having access to everything. It also keeps all your icons organized when you change resolutions, so when you update your graphics driver you don't have to sort your desktop out anymore. FilerFrog: add a slew of useful functions to your context menu. FilerFrog is a free program that can install a wide array of useful tools into the Windows context menu, in the vein of such useful context-menu based apps as Lammer Context Menu and Freewaregenius favorite FileMenu Tools.

FilerFrog: add a slew of useful functions to your context menu

It works with both 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows This program offers a wide range of commands, including many of the usual file management operations, but it also offers an interesting list of image manipulation functions (resizing, publishing lists of images to PDF), and a unique “desktop sorting” tool designed to organize the desktop.

FilerFrog enables you to pick and choose exactly which functions you want and to remove others. This is especially useful if you find a handful of functions useful and want them easily accessible but do not want to clutter your context menu with a host of other commands which you do not care for or see yourself using. First off, a quick presentation of the various functions, then a list of my favorites: Future Work Skills 2020. Zeitgeist Minds. Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice.