Use a prep card to remeber the important points at an informal meeting

Your Prep Card: Don’t Leave Home Without It at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life

Make writing out a Prep Card an integral part of your preparation for every meeting. It’s a great habit to get into so never walk leave home without a Prep Card:


Take a 3” x 5” index card and write down 3 key points you want to mention in simple clear language, nouns and verbs.
At the bottom, give yourself 2 reminders to avoid your bad habits.



Here's an example:

• Bill got a raise in half the time, with an inferior track record.
  
• We will match our competitor’s best bid.
  
• You’d agreed to a 10% discount over the phone.

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• Sit up straight.
  
• Talk slowly and take a full breath after every sentence.
  
  

That’s it. In any discussion, you’re almost certainly not going to have time to process and deliver more than 3 important points. In The Elements of Style, E.B. White writes, “The act of
composition, or creation, disciplines the mind; writing is one way to
go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain
the mind but supply it, too.”

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Bringing magazines into the digital age.

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searchable and usable on the web. The Exact Editions system processes PDF files
supplied by the publisher and stores images and text in a database. The goal of
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look exactly the same as the printed version. The Exact Editions system also
offers publishers a variety of distribution options: titles can be freely sampled
by any web user, or individual subscription can be sold, or 'controlled'
circulation accounts provided to registered individuals. Exact Editions also now
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Within the Exact Editions system each print page becomes a web page, so printed
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The platform also delivers a range of useful enhancements to the printed page:
email addresses and urls are rendered as clickable links, ISBNs and
telephone numbers (provided that they are in international format) are rendered clickable,
and Tables of Contents and Indices are also enriched with live links.

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one GREAT presentation

TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)

Wow - take 20 minutes now and watch this presentation by Larry Lessig. He 'pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some of the most hilarious remixes you've ever seen.'

Great intro to the free culture, creative commons arena as well as a superb demonstration of masterful presentation -no animated powerpoint bulleting here.

A great Quote from a good article by Christian Rasmussen...

FedTech: Government Social Networking: The Next E-Chapter

It will help to keep this quote from Henry Ford in the back of your mind while moving forward with all of this:

If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would’ve said a faster horse.

Take it to the next level.

WHOA! Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

An ambitious move to breathe down Google's neck, this would certainly have been disallowed if Google was doing the buying.
My bet - Microsoft will take a long time to capitalize, if ever.

In the meantime, this could be the best day in over the last half-year to buy GOOG, while the corresponding day for YHOO was I guess yesterday ;-)


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