October 2009
In this issue
►Welcome
►Work
and Have Fun Too!
►Presenting
with PowerPoint
►E-Mail
Etiquette for Wireless Devices
►Meet
the Team
►Quote
& Cartoon
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Welcome
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From the
heart of ancient Polynesia
A
lesson for busy Americans - work and have fun too"
used with permission from Joel Weldon - Success Comes In
Cans
 A
number of years ago, a United States Peace Corps volunteer,
teaching English on one of the tiny, remote Tongan islands
in Polynesia, learned a valuable lesson that you too might
benefit from.
His class was
giving him fits—giggling and playing as usual, and, as far
as he could see, refusing to do any serious work. He asked
them to “stop the nonsense.” Threatening punishment, he
ordered them to “get down to business.” He pleaded with them
to “be responsible for once.”
Finally, in
utter frustration, he turned his back on the class, walked
to the door and stared out at the sea. “You’re so difficult
to under-stand,” he mumbled to himself.
“No. Easy to
understand,” came the unexpected response from one of the
students. “We work and have fun too.”
Do you work and
have fun too? Or are you so busy working hard that enjoyment
just doesn’t seem possible?
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Presenting with PowerPoint: 10 dos and
don'ts
by Jeff Wuorio
reprinted with permission from Microsoft Small Business Center
 Cherie Kerr knows how
PowerPoint can be both provocative and persuasive in a business meeting.
She's also aware that
precisely the opposite can occur.
"It can be the very best
friend you have," says the Santa Ana, Calif., public relations
consultant. "But you have to use it right."
Kerr's two-sided view of
Microsoft's popular presentation and graphics program mirrors a debate
coursing through business and academia. While many embrace the values of
PowerPoint as a potent business tool, there are others who contend that
it's a drag on effective interaction — that it confuses, distorts and
even strangles communication.
But, as Kerr points out,
any discussion of PowerPoint's merits and miscues merely illustrates the
importance of using the program to best advantage.
Here are 10 ways to
use PowerPoint to help make your business look brilliant, not brainless.
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E-Mail Etiquette for Wireless
Devices: 7 Tips
by Christopher Elliott
Reprinted with permission from the
Microsoft Small Business Center
 This isn't another
lecture about minding your e-mail manners. This is a story
about a new subset of e-mail etiquette. Call it wireless
politeness.
An increasing
number of e-mail messages are being received on small,
wireless devices with limited screen space — devices such as
Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. Being polite is still
important. But so are a number of other considerations,
including brevity, diction and consideration for bandwidth.
Reader Terri
Thornton aptly sums up the frustration with today's wireless
transmissions. "I hate checking my e-mail and having the
subject line be so long that it scrolls forever until I can
figure out what the topic is, or whether it's important,"
says Thornton, a Cincinnati marketing executive. "Worse is
the one-word subject line that says nothing and you have to
open it to find out what it is and discover it's 30 lines of
nothing."
So what is the
etiquette for sending e-mail messages to and from wireless
devices? Here are seven tips.
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