Microsoft to Publish Blogger's PowerPoint Book
Grok Headline matches for Microsoft to Publish Blogger's PowerPoint Book
eZ publish book out now!
eZ publish book out now!
07/27/2004 07:34 PM
Submission by Damian Carvill
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expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.
More details on Learning eZ publish 3 : Building Content Management
Solutions
O'Reilly publish book on W3C XML Schema
O'Reilly publish book on W3C XML Schema
07/01/2002 03:39 PMO'Reilly and Associates have published XML Schema: The W3C's
Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML, written by XMLhack's own Eric
van der Vlist.
Microsoft photo prompts bl0gger's regret
Microsoft photo prompts bl0gger's regret
11/03/2003 11:13 AMZDNet Nov 3 2003 10:21AM ET
Authors Turn to Lulu.com To Publish Book
Attacking No Child Left Behind Act In
Time For Election
Authors Turn to Lulu.com To Publish Book
Attacking No Child Left Behind Act In
Time For Election
08/23/2004 02:48 AMThe Seattle-based father and daughter publishing team of Beth and Ross
Yockey wanted to make sure their satire of the Bush Administration’s
education policy, "Strictly for the Birds: an Allegory of Political
Folly," was published in time for the election in November. That
urgency led them to turn from traditional publishers to Lulu.com
(www.Lulu.com), a rapidly growing on demand publishing tool for books
and ebooks. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]
Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2003 Version 2
Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2003 Version 2
07/20/2004 11:16 PMMicrosoft Producer 2003 for PowerPoint 2003 is the next release of
this very popular add-in for PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2002.
Producer 2003 provides users with many powerful new features that make
it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and images to create
engaging and effective rich-media presentations. Producer 2003 gives
content and media professionals, as well as everyday PowerPoint users
a host of new content authoring features.
Live Meeting 4.x Add-In for Microsoft
PowerPoint
Live Meeting 4.x Add-In for Microsoft
PowerPoint
09/06/2004 11:52 PMAdd Live Meeting-specific properties to any PowerPoint 2003 slide,
including the presenter name and notes. PowerPoint 2003 stores these
properties as textual tags on the slide, a feature of the PowerPoint
2003 Visual Basic interface
Create special slides for the Live Meeting Conference Center,
including Polling slides, Web slides, Editable Text slides, and
Sharing slides
Export a presentation to the Live Meeting slide upload format. The
Personal Web Page (PWP) file type is the Live Meeting slide upload
format. You can upload a PWP file to a server that is running Live
Meeting
Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint
2003
Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint
2003
07/22/2004 09:23 AMMicrosoft To Publish Windows APIs
Microsoft To Publish Windows APIs
08/05/2002 10:43 PMUPDATE: The move comes to meet a deadline imposed by the company's
still-pending settlement with the Justice Department.
IBM, Microsoft Publish Web Services
Specs
IBM, Microsoft Publish Web Services
Specs
12/18/2002 10:06 AMMicrosoft and IBM publish their previously outlined Web services
specifications for conducting e-business.
AOL's New Whitelist Policy (Not What You
Heard)- SPF's New Name - Microsoft + AOL
Call for Widespread Collaboration and
Answer THE Question: Publish SPF Now or
Wait for Future Standards?
AOL's New Whitelist Policy (Not What You
Heard)- SPF's New Name - Microsoft + AOL
Call for Widespread Collaboration and
Answer THE Question: Publish SPF Now or
Wait for Future Standards?
06/24/2004 02:53 AMMicrosoft, AOL and SPF Developer Meng Weng Wong answer questions about
the SPF technology, the new SenderID format, what organizations are
supposed to be doing now and what it means for every organization that
sends email (bulk or otherwise). Microsoft and AOL explain the rapidly
growing collaboration & how AOL will be using SPF for inbound email
delivery & whitelisting. ASTA's (ISPs anti-spam coalition)
initiatives and best practice recommendations editorial. [PRWEB Jun
24, 2004]
Blogger's New Look
Blogger's New Look
05/10/2004 12:14 AMBlogger has been remade in
some fairly serious ways. It's not state of the art, but it's a big
step forward for some folks, who just want to do a blog with fewer
speed bumps.
Blogger's hiring!
Blogger's hiring!
08/06/2004 01:23 PMThis is a pretty sweet gig: work as a UI engineer for Blogger at
Google.
Do you want to help shape one of the fastest-growing and most
innovative areas of the web? As a user-interface engineer, on the
Blogger team, you will help define how people create, find, and share
personal content online. Be a part of the Google team that pioneered
the blogging phenomenon.
Link
(
via Salad With Steve)
The Blogger's Woodstock
The Blogger's Woodstock
02/10/2004 02:47 AMTravel Day.
Driving down to San Diego
today for the Digital Democracy
Teach-In tomorrow and eTech
for the three days after that. See ya there.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]
Heading to
eTech.... 
Looking forward to meeting some of you in realspace at
eTech this week. Ping me here or jbat at
battellemedia dot com to meet up. [John Battelle's Searchblog]
Emerging
Tech Photos.
ETCon
Photos are here. Nothing too exciting happening tonight, which is
good as I'm self-imposed exile in my hotel room cramming for my
tutorial tomorrow.
I did get blown off simultaneously by Howard Rheingold, Dan Gilmore
and Esther Dyson a while ago in the lobby. You've got to admit,
there's not a lot of conferences where that can happen. (I chose a
pretty bad time to introduce myself I think... I'm not particularly
good at those things. Russ Beattie: Expert Schmoozer.)
;-)
-Russ
P.S. Matt's got some
photos on TextAmerica as well. By russ@russellbeattie.com. [Russell
Beattie]
And the brothers Gillmor......
O'Reilly ETech: Social Software Showdown. The
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference kicks off Monday, and the
rising field of social software looks to take center stage. If you
thought peer-to-peer and groupware are dead, think again. They're back
in a big way. [eWeek.com Messaging and
Collaboration - Featuring Steve Gillmor]
On the Road. Heading to the Emerging
Technology conference, where I'm speaking on several panels. This
is one of those gatherings where I'm thrilled to be the stupidest
person in the room -- I get to learn a lot. [Dan
Gillmor's eJournal]
Blogger's RSS Decision: Atom Only
Blogger's RSS Decision: Atom Only
05/10/2004 01:23 PM(Geek alert: This may be boring to people who don't care about the
innards of technology.)
I'm sorry to see that Blogger's
latest incarnation doesn't support multiple kinds of syndication
formats, and is going with Atom only. It would be trivially
easy to do so. (Blogger Pro users can still create RSS 1.0 feeds, as I
understand things.)
A couple of months ago, someone from the Blogger team suggested to me
that this was a server issue -- that several million users creating
more than one kind of XML file would somehow be problematic from a
resources standpoint. Really? A problem for the company with (best
guess) 100,000 servers and plans to offer anyone who wants it a
gigabyte of disk space for e-mail?
Google has a right to do this, just as UserLand has a right not to
support Atom (and Movable Type not to support RSS 2.0 and so on). It
would be nice to see a resolution to this fork in the RSS road,
though.
TIME Magazine: A Blogger's Creed
TIME Magazine: A Blogger's Creed
09/21/2004 02:55 AM"A Blogger's Creed," .. uue kollektiivse aju .. Andrew
Sullivan
time.com/time/covers/1101040927/nsullivan.html
track this
site | 3 links
Blogger Help : All about Blogger's post
editor
Blogger Help : All about Blogger's post
editor
07/16/2004 11:53 AMupped the functionality of its user-friendly text editor .. Here's the
help doc .. new look
help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=922
track
this site | 4 links
Add your web bl0g to Tech*Ed's bl0gger's
Add your web bl0g to Tech*Ed's bl0gger's
04/13/2005 12:07 PMJoi Ito on bl0gger's block, collapsing
facets and the number 150
Joi Ito on bl0gger's block, collapsing
facets and the number 150
12/22/2003 07:45 PMJoi suffers from collapsing
identity facets and the tendency to be more conservative about what
you write the more people read your blog. It's a fascinating problem.
This happened to me years ago, when my site went from something a few
friends and strangers read to investors and business partners and
critics and press and I stopped saying personal stuff—and
probably stopped saying interesting stuff. (Though I had a fraction of
the exposure and contexts as Joi, I have a lower threshold.) Sometimes
I just stopped saying stuff.
"focusing on Iraqi bl0gger's reactions
(good idea)"
"focusing on Iraqi bl0gger's reactions
(good idea)"
12/15/2003 10:29 PMFemale bl0gger's first-person sex column
causes ruckus in China
Female bl0gger's first-person sex column
causes ruckus in China
12/02/2003 01:42 AMNY Times piece on 25-year-old Chinese blogger Mu Zimei, whose sexually
explicit first-person accounts have generated controversy -- and
celebrity -- for the former magazine columnist. Snip:
What changed everything was her decision in April to start her own
online blog at a new Chinese site for personal diaries. She said she
thought it would be fun. While writing her magazine column, she had
hopped from man to man, sometimes hopping to two men at once,
sometimes hopping to married men. Her topics, though, remained more
thematic than explicit.
But in her online diary, she began writing explicitly about these
encounters, or those of her friends, and on July 26 described her
brief and apparently unsatisfying liaison outside a restaurant with a
famous guitarist in a Guangzhou rock band. The entry was posted at a
popular online discussion board, spread among China's "netizens" like
wildfire and was quickly picked up in the gossipy newspapers that feed
China's growing celebrity culture. Eventually, she was featured in
China's edition of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Link. Zimei isn't the first female writer in China
to raise eyebrows over sexually explicit autobiographical work --
check
this
link for background on Mian Mian. (
thanks, Invi
sible Cowgirl)Book by ex-advisers extols Microsoft
Book by ex-advisers extols Microsoft
09/06/2004 10:42 AMIHT Sep 6 2004 2:02PM GMT
A useful Microsoft technologies
troubleshooting book
A useful Microsoft technologies
troubleshooting book
06/16/2004 03:56 AMChris Wolf writes books about Windows operating systems and other
Microsoft technologies. In his latest tome, he starts the introduction
by saying: "Imagine an Enterprise network that is without failure of
any type, and users that never ask for help or have problems with
their systems." Sounds good, doesn't it? But as Wolf goes on to say:
"Now pinch yourself and wake up because you are surely dreaming."
ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Bad Boy
Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft
ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Bad Boy
Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft
11/05/2003 11:37 PMIn this revealing biography -- based on in-depth study and interviews
with Microsoft insiders -- Fredric Alan Maxwell provides the complete,
controversial narrative of one of the technology industry's most
influential, talked-about figures: Steven Anthony Ballmer, the awkward
Detroit Country Day School valedictorian who rose to become
Microsoft's president, and in the past two years, its CEO. Together
with Bill Gates, Ballmer leads the company he and Gates took from less
than 30 employees to some 50,000, and annual revenues from $12 million
to more than $20 billion and rising. A balanced portrait, this book
reveals the good boy Ballmer -- the dedicated son who once took three
months off to care for his ailing parents, and the bad boy Ballmer --
the ruthless businessman who at the same time devised and led a
scorched earth policy against other software developers, a policy that
earned him the nickname "The Em-balmer."
Book Review: Guide to Microsoft Office
2004
Book Review: Guide to Microsoft Office
2004
09/13/2004 10:32 AMStuart Gitlow gives a thumbs-up to the latest Visual Quickstart title
for the Mac.
Microsoft Notebook: Ex-executive's book
tells of 'fiefdom' issues
Microsoft Notebook: Ex-executive's book
tells of 'fiefdom' issues
08/23/2004 12:45 PMMicrosoft Corp.'s current chief executive, then its sales boss, was
meeting in the mid-1990s with an overseas subsidiary that insisted on
using its own measures -- rather than those set out by the company --
to assess its financial performance.
Ballmer, his face turning red as he listened, finally put an end to
it. "I'll define the key measures," he told them. "It's your job to
grow them."
ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Breaking
Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the
Future of Microsoft
ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Breaking
Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the
Future of Microsoft
12/03/2003 12:39 AMDavid Bank's Breaking Windows offers a scathing inside look at the
past few tumultuous years at the Microsoft Corporation. Bank, who
covers the company for The Wall Street Journal, bases this
well-written tale on interviews he has conducted with most major
players (including Bill Gates), along with boxes of e-mails and other
documents that "provided an unprecedented glimpse into strategic
debates and internal decision-making processes of a company that had
long restricted outside access to its insular corporate culture."
Through them he shows how Microsoft, which always put software above
everything--and in more recent years made Windows its number-one
priority--has scrambled and squabbled as first the Internet and then
the U.S. government forced major directional changes and significant
internal reevaluations.
Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature
Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature
10/31/2003 06:21 PMInternetRetailer.com Oct 31 2003 4:44PM ET
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
06/12/2004 12:32 PMBook Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute
Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute
03/19/2005 02:43 AMIn MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily
believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band
together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however
radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
02/13/2004 05:52 AMOne of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales
mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell
became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq
started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out -
and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book
publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized
that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site,
it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's
pissing off retailers, who don't
want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers
say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to
the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it
becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's
also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer
experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online
sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy
am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.
A BLOGGER'S
CHRISTMAS WISH LIST
A BLOGGER'S
CHRISTMAS WISH LIST
12/19/2004 02:54 PM
11.
|
A simple way to
simultaneously send new blog articles, as they are posted, to any
number of user-maintained, editable e-mail lists (from which people
could easily unsubscribe, of course).
|
10.
|
An
automatically maintained Table of Contents with one-sentence abstracts
for each of your blog posts, editable by you and sortable by your
readers by title, date, and category/sub-category.
|
9.
|
A
simple, meaningful measure of total readership, that weighs blog hits,
visits, average duration of stay, RSS subscriptions, inbound blogs,
e-mail subscriptions, and visits to copies of your posts on
aggregators.
|
8.
|
An
ability to create standing-order 'profiles' for all blogs, as you now
can for newsfeeds, so that you can receive a single daily e-mail or
web
page that aggregates everything posted that day, anywhere in the
blogosphere, on a specific topic or containing specific keywords or
phrases.
|
7.
|
A
gigabyte or two of free storage on the hosted blog server, so you can
keep a copy of your entire My Documents folder on the server, link to
anything in it from your blog without having to FTP a copy, and be
able
to access your entire 'e-filing cabinet' from any computer anywhere
anytime.
|
6.
|
An
easy migration path from the asynchronous, polished
anonymity of the blog to the real-time, one-to-one, face-to-face or
voice-to-voice, halting interactive iterative intimacy of other media,
media
that
move you from talk to action.
|
5.
|
Inclusion of our posts,
if we want them to be, in Google News.
|
4.
|
More
first-person accounts, first-hand news, live photos and reports, and
investigative reporting in
the blogosphere. |
3.
|
A
blogging tool so simple even our parents can maintain one. |
2.
|
No
more fear of your blog or your computer crashing and irretrievably
losing everything
you've written on your blog. |
1.
|
The
end of the terms 'weblog', 'blog' and 'blogger', and to be simply
called An
Online Journalist. |
THE
BLOGGER'S ROLE IN THE MEDIA
THE
BLOGGER'S ROLE IN THE MEDIA
01/22/2004 02:12 AM
 Yesterday I
received a delightful note* from Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Support Economy, which
describes what I listed as one of the most
important political & economic ideas of 2003. Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria, who
wrote The Future of Freedom,
wrote to me last fall about my review of his book on these pages. And
I've communicated recently with one of the editors at Fast Company. I didn't take the
initiative in any of these communications.
The fact that leading writers and journalists know we bloggers exist,
and take the time to thank us and clarify their thoughts (and ours) in
correspondence with us, comes as something of a surprise to me. It is
at once sobering and flattering that we even appear on their radar
screens -- there are, after all, millions of us, and, at least in this
corner of the blogosphere, we're not even A-listers.
I think in fact we play a much more important role in the media than
we
might think. That role is a result of the power of our networks, which
are more dynamic, sensitive and agile than those of print journalists
and book writers. We can sense quickly and effectively when there's
something happening -- a shift in public consciousness or attitude, a
new issue or idea gaining traction -- because of our connectedness,
because of the strength of weak ties and those ties' ability to
create at least small tipping
points. If the mainstream media are the stomach of the media
beast, its power plant, we are its antennae.
This role provides us with both opportunities and responsibilities we
might not realize. The opportunity depends, of course, on what your
blog is about, but there should be some general principles that apply
to any of us in this periphery of the information society. Here are a
few ideas on how bloggers could connect better with other media, and
perhaps raise our profile and expand our role in the process:
- Tell the media you're talking about them:
If you cite a writer in your blog, and do anything more substantial
than just link to something they've written, let them know. Even if it
only brings results 10% of the time, invite them into the
conversation.
Many professional writers have no idea what blogging is about, and you
can really open their eyes to the opportunities for connection and
idea
exchange.
- Find their personal e-mail addresses:
Work to bring print and audio-visual media writers into our networks:
Try to dig out their e-mail addresses, encourage them to post them at
the bottom of their articles, the endpages of their books, the bottom
of the screen, the end of the broadcast, the media company's website.
Letters to 'the editor' or to 'the network' or to 'the program' just
don't cut it any more. We want to get personal. Once you've got their e-mail address, use
it, but do so sparingly and always send them something they can use.
- Make it easier for them to reach you: We
bloggers need to do a better job of identifying our own e-mail
addresses on our sites, so that mainstream media people can find them
without looking for cryptic symbols in the corners of our
pages.
- Offer to collaborate:
Volunteer to play a role in a favourite writer's follow-up or next
article or next book. Feed them ideas, briefly, thoughtfully, as often
as they occur, but but don't take it personally if they don't respond.
Writers have lots of irons in the fire, and often live hand to mouth.
Malcolm Gladwell's recent article on SUVs and learned helplessness was
mentioned as a project in progress in an interview he gave five years ago.
And remember they work for editors, and even if your contact likes
your
idea doesn't mean it will necessarily see the light of day.
- Make yourself available:
If you have the gift of speaking impromptu, the media are always
looking for articulate subject matter experts who can give them quick
sound bites on controversial issues. Just make sure you think before
you speak!
- Don't exaggerate or misrepresent:
Identify and respect your sources, but don't be afraid to volunteer
your own opinion. And never, ever, make anything up, or lie about your
sources or your own credentials. You'll get caught, and you'll be
toast.
- Do the work that they can't:
Understand that their writers make their living from what they do, and
are very unlikely to pay you, or even share much credit with you, and
don't want you writing the story for them. They do want you to do
their
research for them, however -- most writers today don't have time or
budget to do investigative reporting, chase unsubstantiated leads, do
background work, or double-check facts. They need people to do that
for
them, ideally for free.
Not very glamorous, admittedly. Or profitable. But it builds on our
strengths -- connection, knowledge skills, research skills, numbers,
breadth, time. Yeah, I know -- what we really do well is write. What we really
want is a column in the big papers, or the monster magazines, with a
book deal on the side. Patience. The mainstream writers are just
discovering us. The editors will take a little longer.
* I wrote:
Idea #8: The next economy will support consumers
holistically to solve their problems, not just sell them products - In
her book The Support Economy, Shoshana Zuboff
argues that
what is needed is a new economic layer, a
're-intermediation', between the producer and consumer, which consists
of 'federations' of businesses and 'advocates'
who work collaboratively to look after the busy consumer's needs
cradle-to-grave and deal with
the multiple suppliers in the product/service delivery process. I
confess I don't share the author's exuberance that such 'support' will
be affordable by any except the rich elite.
Professor Zuboff replied:
Federated support networks are not intended as a
reintermediation or as an additional "layer". If that were the case,
then your skepticism would be well founded. It would cost too much.
You can't preserve the status quo and just add another layer, we will
all drown in cost and administration and end up further away from the
support we desire. Sometimes even the book's most avid fans think of
advocates as some kind of super concierge. I suppose because that's
the
closest model we know that can help us imagine "support". But
concierge
services exist to buffer us from the adversarial DNA of the enterprise
system. Our argument is that the conditions are ripe for the
emergence
of a new system with wholly different DNA. It won't need buffers, or
layers, because it is either fundamentally aligned with my needs, or
it
fails.
Federated support networks exploit the digital medium to eliminate the
administrative hierarchy we just spent 100 years building and
expanding. That's what we call "infrastructure convergence", and
without it there is no way to think radically about new cost
structures. We needed that hierarchy, or at least some of it, when
these integrative technologies didn't exist. We don't need it
now.(this is the history of the literature on transaction costs, and
Chandler's basic point.) The key issue now is the way in which a
distributed model, now made possible by technology, can subsume the
old
models based on concentration. That is the step function that can
eliminate massive cost and allow the whole enterprise system to be
reconceived and reorganized around the needs of individuals and
families, instead of around products or services. As Seymour Melman
demonstrated half a century ago, managers are never going to stand in
line to give up all the stuff that reports to them. These
institutions
probably can't be rescued from the downward spiral in their entirety
(some assets will survive, but reconfigured). We need new ways of
starting, just like Ford did a century ago.
I also really appreciated the Fast Co. Wal-Mart piece, and especially
the way it vividly illustrated this endgame.
|
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
12/15/2003 08:15 AMvnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET
ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Inside
Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat
Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire
Industry
ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Inside
Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat
Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire
Industry
10/29/2003 12:10 AMIt's a modern-day David and Goliath story for the business world: a
company dreamed up at a kitchen table, built on explosive PC growth,
and forced to battle a giant in the race to revolutionize an industry.
This is the story of Intuit, creator of renowned software products
like Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax-the company that beat mighty
Microsoft and changed the way 25 million people manage their finances.
Written by Intuit veteran Suzanne Taylor and seasoned business manager
Kathy Schroeder-who were granted exclusive interviews with founder
Scott Cook and other key figures- Inside Intuit tells this company's
original and fascinating tale for the first time. The book vividly
recounts each dramatic stage of Intuit's development: from initial
conception to "bet the company" investments; from strokes of marketing
genius to disastrous product launches; and from battles for survival
to successive victories against arch-rival Microsoft-the company no
one else could beat.
The PowerPoint Mythology
The PowerPoint Mythology
04/09/2004 04:12 PMI spent yesterday consulting with a company whose salesforce is having
trouble explaining exactly what its software does, a common problem
with enterprise applications since software tends towards
functionality sprawl in ways that, say, refrigerators and asphalt
don't. Not to mention that this company's software is genuinely
innovative. The company's impulse is to address this need in the usual
way: Build a PowerPoint "deck" (sorry, "deck" instead of "slide set"
still sounds unnatural to me) with the sort of corporate overview
appropriate for an industry analyst. But, the deck a salesperson needs
is, of course, quite different. The rep isn't...
Powerpoint Foghat
Powerpoint Foghat
08/28/2004 02:49 PM
The Essential
Foghat Timeline. Is it any wonder that Foghat is so hard to
keep
track of? (Found
here).
There
were two versions of Foghat touring from 1990 to 1993. Roger Earl was
touring with his version of Foghat (originally called the
Kneetremblers) from 1986 to 1993 and Dave toured with Lonesome Dave's
Foghat from 1990 to 1993... FC Now: Near Death by PowerPoint
FC Now: Near Death by PowerPoint
01/05/2005 06:14 PMEver been stuck in an interminable meeting in which a speaker slogged
through 101 frustrating PowerPoint slides? Ever finish sitting through
a presentation and wonder, well, what the point was? It doesn't have
to be that way. Business strategist Rob...
Accelerated PowerPoint?
Accelerated PowerPoint?
08/15/2004 01:18 PMPerestroika by PowerPoint
Perestroika by PowerPoint
12/11/2003 06:15 AMGo easy with the tax breaks
Grok Description matches for Microsoft to Publish Blogger's PowerPoint Book
GrokA matches for Microsoft to Publish Blogger's PowerPoint Book
Microsoft to Publish Blogger's PowerPoint Book
