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10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

Ian's Messy Desk

Make them laugh – Although you want to educate your audience, you need to make them laugh as well. In essence, it keeps the audience alert and they’ll learn more from you than someone who just educates. The audience isn’t there to read your slides, they are there to listen to you present. Learn to tell stories.

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Canadians Caught in Time Crunch

Ian's Messy Desk

Attendance at arts performances dropped from 15 million to 13 million in 2001-2006; Low income, living in a poor neighbourhood, low parental education, recent immigration, racialized status, and Aboriginal status affect participation in leisure and culture. Time spent on social leisure activities dropped from 15% in 1998 to 12% in 2005.

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8 Work-Life Balance Myths

Ian's Messy Desk

Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. when they have a baby or when they want to continue their education). Many companies offer their work-life balance policies to employees at all levels. Management will lose control.

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

This has created not only many health problems like cardiovascular disease, a weaker immune system, frequent headaches, backache to name but a few, but also social problems in areas like child-care, care for relatives, increase in divorces and other symptoms of a social fabric breakdown. Work-Life Balance 2.0 Vol 1, No.

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Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

South By South West Midlands Said on February 28th, 2008 at 4:51 pm [.] low cost business ideas Said on April 10th, 2008 at 11:10 pm the internet has allow the bootstrapper to go to a whole new level. – Stefan Carlos Weil Said on May 27th, 2008 at 11:38 pm STEFAN: I fully agree with bootstrapping. But you will need some [.]

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Building Your Network

Ian's Messy Desk

He found that, holding constant for age, education , occupation and opportunities, the single most important factor in career success is your “reference group.&# Comments I really thank you for your very educative articles on the power of self discipline and especially ways of building successful networks and networking.

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Apple – the customer support nightmare – Part II: The Criminal.

The Small Business Blog

Should this be policy – they are in trouble. If Apple wants to provide support on par with the quality of their products, I think they need to understand the difference between training their agents and actually educating their agents. Hope you get it sorted out. HP’s support drives you nuts! Server replacement.

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