Lifehack - How to improve your life

Good News Everyone ;)

I've just discovered an amazing website called Lifehack .

It's an amazing site full of articles that help you improve your life.

There are different categories, such as Communication, Lifestyle, Money, Tech, etc....

Just pick an article that interests you and start reading ;)

I  read some and i found the ideas explained in each article very helpful and meaningful. For example i just read an article about How to stop being lazy all the time. It was explained that they are different kind of laziness, that comes from different inner problems we have we should defeat.

Try it and see if there is an article taht entertain you ;)

Charles

Did You Know 2014 - YouTube

Did You Know 2014 - YouTube:



This "Shift Happens"  is better than the one I showed in class... there are many different versions that have been adapted to the specific target audiences.

You're welcome to leave a comment... this year or next.



Happy New Year!

james



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Six Ways NOT To Shake Hands | Bernard Marr | LinkedIn

Six Ways NOT To Shake Hands | Bernard Marr | LinkedIn:



Linkedin's Pulse posts... do you follow them?  You might enjoy comparing the three ways the same information is presented...  in text, in video and in two presentations... one with dull slides and one with "made-over" slides....



(the Article about the made-over slides and links to other interesting posts about good presentation technique is here:  https://blog.slideshare.net/2014/09/10/slide-makeovers-bernard-marrs-handshake-guide/  (have a look at the "related posts").



what do you think!

happy holidays!

james





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Presentation Zen: 10 tips for improving your presentations & speeches

Presentation Zen: 10 tips for improving your presentations & speeches:



You should know about Garr Reynolds website already but here's a recent post that I find interesting!

have a good weekend!

james



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E3 SONY CONFERENCE 2014

OpenLearn

Hello everyone,

I was exploring the website of the BBC when I found something that some of us could find interesting. This is called OpenLearn and the slogan is "The home for free learning from The Open University". The goal of this platform is to provide open courses about a large range of topics such as "Science, Maths and Technology", "Languages" or "People, Politics and Law". Some courses take just ten minutes, some others last hours. There are links to BBC radio podcasts as well.

If you are interested, you can find it there : http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs 1

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs 1:



you can watch this on Bnet  (the business network) but you can also watch it on EnglishCentral.



EnglishCentral can let you work on your delivery and intonation....  try a demo... "speak the video".



all the best

james





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RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us - YouTube

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us - YouTube:





I think you'll find this interesting.... Looking forward to your comments.



TGIF!

have a good weekend

james



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Apple's 'Mac vs. PC' Ad Campaign: All 4 Years and 66 Commercials | Adweek

Apple's 'Mac vs. PC' Ad Campaign: All 4 Years and 66 Commercials | Adweek:



Nobody remembered the Mr Mac and Mr PC ads... here they are...

"In 2010, Adweek declared "Get a Mac" to be the best advertising campaign of the first decade of the new century."  What do you think? Have a look at a few....Do you have any favorites? How about a comment?

 "Steve Jobs could sell. He did it in person, he did it on stage, and he did it on television—in the form of advertising campaigns that were often the envy of the business. Among the most beloved was the long-running "Get a Mac" series with John Hodgman and Justin Long as the bumbling PC and the hip, unflappable Mac—an odd couple who would entertain viewers for years with their quips, barbs, sight gags, and one-liners. In 2010, Adweek declared "Get a Mac" to be the best advertising campaign of the first decade of the new century. Below are all 66 TV spots..... "

Here's a link to all the commercials one after the other:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCyqSROGf0


james

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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy) - YouTube

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy) - YouTube: "28:59

here are three pretty intense stories....



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How to sell a product

Guy Kawasaki worked at Apple for many years. He then became an entrepreneur. His ideas about how to sell a product and how to make people fond of it are very interesting. He's also a very good speaker (just go see on youtube one of his videos), and I think we can learn many things by listening to him.

I found this article on his blog about how to make a great product looking amazing : 

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2014/04/the-art-of-evangelism.html

just go take a look ;) 

Charles 

Google translate & search engine : how it works

I recently found out the way Google search and traduction works. In fact , i'm studying Data Mining and it explains of course how search engines works. Although, the Google's algorithms still unrevealed ( otherwise it wouldn't be the leading search engine in the world ! ). I found two videos about Google search engine and Google translate , where the concept is explained by Matt Cuts ( Matt Cuts is a software engineer who joined google in 2000 and he is the head of Google's Webspam team i will share a link to his blog in the bottom of the article ).
I wont lie, i was always curious about Google translate algorithm and what frustrated me was how can Google Translate use grammar rules !!! I will let you discover ( if you don't know it ofc ) the Google's secret :)
all the best,
Safwen

Matt Cuts blog : https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

Click!

Recently, I found a podcast that seemed particularly interesting among the BBC's large range of programmes. This is called Click and talks about “how computers and digital technology affect our lives around the world”. I liked it because it shows various (and sometimes surprising) ways new technologies are little by little incorporated in our lives. The last week, I heard about the new “IPhones of the street”: in the smart cities, lamps will be used to do many things such as leaving messages or retrieving data left in another lamp (like smartphones are not used only to give phone calls).

I find this is a practical way of both learning vocabulary related with technologies and keeping yourself up to date in this field. In addition, you can listen to it everywhere!

The BBC offers many other podcasts linked with computer science and technologies. This page shows some of them. The podcast Let's Talk About Tech is also interesting even if this is more focused on games and less on the real effects of new technologies.

How about leaving a comment?
Celine

Apple marketing techniques

 

  Although I'm not a  fan of Apple, I find their marketing techniques amazing. Either by their posters, their ads or especially by their keynotes and presentations. Their voice tone and their vocabulary used when describing a product,  can be inspiring to many of us, on how can we present our CV, and ourselves in front of an HR in a job interview, or how to present a presentation in front of a group of people.

Here is the Iphone 6 launch (It's not an ad, as i just bashed apple in the previous picture). Notice the simple vocabulary used to seduce the audience. Of course you don't have to watch it all (I stopped at 15 min).

What do you think?  All the best,
Mohamad