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Screencasting Tools

Articulate’s Rapid E-Learning Blog describes how to use their free screencasting tool screenr.  It is simple and easy to use and outputs to Twitter, iPhone, YouTube and into Articulate or you can embed it into your own website. Check it out here. It also has its own url: http://screenr.com. It is labled as a screencast
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Augmented Reality on the iPhone

Much hyped as a theoretical development, there is now an App you can purchase from the App store which has this embedded. It is the Paris Metro app and if you switch the camera on and hold it up, the nearest stations and the direction and distance from you, are displayed on the screen.  Itwill 
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Running the US

The New York Times carries a story about Obama’s lack of progress in appointing key officials to their posts seven months into his Presidency. Of more than 500 senior policymaking positions, just 43 percent have been filled. Why? They all require Senate confirmation, and that is a slow painstaking process.  There is no head of
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RIP 10 Microsoft Apps

A slide show in eWeek.com by Nicholas Kolakowski which lists 10 Microsoft Apps that have bitten the dust or or are likely to go.  Thanks @billschrier for drawing it to my attention. Encarta is on the list.  That little beasty killed the Encyclopaedia Britannica  single handed and was hailed as a miracle of multi-media information
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Technlogy and Learning

“Our argument here is that our institutions of learning havechanged far more slowly than the modes of inventive, collaborative,participatory learning offered by the Internet and an arrayof contemporary mobile technologies.” Whose argument? The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age The report makes interesting reading without anything startlingly new.
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Think Like a Designer

Here is a simple 10 tips post to help you judge your own work as a designer would. The checklist is a blog posting by Garr Reynolds from his Presentation Zen site and he actually gives us 11 tips (a bonus one at the end!).The checklist is great for any kind of creative input. My
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Visual Communication

I just watched Jonathan Jarvis’s brilliant attempt to create a visual record of Obama’s Stimulus Package speech in real time using his own graphics and information management software.  He begins with a blank screen and then builds a complex graphic that pulls all the information together in a way that makes something inherently complex, apprear
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Reading On Screen

I have just read a 280 page document.  It was sent to me as a pdf. and I couldn’t print out all 280 pages, think of the cost and the waste of paper.   So the only option was to read it off screen. I have worked out the best way to read off the
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Jeroen van der Veer on Leadership and Much More

McKinsey’s have produced a great video interview with the recently retired CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.  Not only is the content excellent, but their presentation is an object lesson in how you break up a 20 minute interview into sections that are all accessible instantly, and play out the sections with key quotes on the
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Values

These are the values of KD Paine and Partners.  No relation I am afraid.  But what a great company to work with and for.  Congratulations. Our Values PassionWe exist because we are passionate about what we do. Aspire to change the worldWe aspire to make a difference with what we do. SustainabilityWe will build a
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