In case you were unable to attend the GIST webinars that were hosted last week, here are the recorded sessions. We are still learning our new Adobe Connect software so I apologize for the crude narrating and editing, but hopefully you will find these to be helpful.

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Last week, I caught an excellent–and timely–webinar for publishers interested in using social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.). If you missed it you can catch the recording online. Lots of interesting insights, and even though we’re not strictly in the publishing business, we’ve been called out more than once on our lack of self-promotion. Did you know that YouTube gets 13 million views per month? I’m not saying that one of the Carnegie CLC videos could compete with the likes of that dancing guy, but I bet more people would bump into them there than randomly on one of our websites.

If you missed Garr Reynolds’ excellent webinar Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery from last Monday (or had problems with slides lagging behind, as at least a couple of us did) you can now watch it online.

View the Presentation Zen webinar (probably requires a broadband connection).

Update: I haven’t watched the recording yet, but apparently it suffers from the same lag between slide updates many of us experienced during the live session. Good news: Mr. Reynolds has posted his slides on SlideShare, so perhaps you can use them to follow along with his audio yourself:

Have you tried applying Presentation Zen principles to your own presentations? What do you like or dislike about this approach? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

(Note: We did not host this webinar; however, I know there’s a lot of interest in Mr. Reynolds’ approach to presenting around CRL and SIM so I’m providing the link.)

Got an iPhone (or iPod touch, or G1), but miss having a stylus? A company called InPlay Technologies has announced a stylus that will work with these devices, called WriteSense, to be available mid-2009. No word on price.

We’re big fans of SlideShare, a handy social site for sharing presentations online. Posting your presentations has always been relatively easy, and now if you use PowerPoint 2007 (Windows only) it’s even easier. SlideShare has released the SlideShare Ribbon add-on to PowerPoint. Check out this introductory slide stack for more information:

I’m a Keynote guy myself, but if you try this out let us know what you think.

VentureBeat reports that, according to an InternetNews overview of the use of Twitter in business, that Dell has earned $1 million this year by using Twitter as a marketing tool. People who follow Dell on the micro-messaging service we all love get automated alerts about sales, with direct links to the items in question. These sales can be forwarded along to others (”retweeted”), making the information viral. I don’t follow Dell, but I do follow Amazon–and I have to say, I’ve caught some good deals.

How can we borrow from this idea? It’s actually really easy to automatically post to Twitter from any site that produces an RSS feed, such as a blog. I use a service called twitterfeed.com to post most of the messages from @stratepedia. The only hitch some of you may have with it is that it uses OpenID for login, but once you’ve got that set up it’s smooth sailing. (We talked about OpenID last week in our own login system update.)

Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue (VentureBeat, Dec. 15, 2008)

Hello!

Due to severe weather issues I am stuck at home today with a poor internet connection.  We could attempt to conduct the GIST Basics webinar but I think we would have issues with the audio and I just don’t want to waste your time.

The GIST Basics webinar is rescheduled for Thursday, December 18 at 10:00 am (CST).

Please visit this link to access the webinar 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time on Thursday.

http://kucrl.acrobat.com/gistbasics/

The GIST Advanced webinar will continue as regularly scheduled on Thursday at 2:00 pm (CST).

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you and assure you the sessions will be recorded and posted ASAP.  I will notify you via email and the Stratepedia blog.  http://hello.stratepedia.org

Thank you!

Amber

Looking at my calendar, I noticed that today’s the day for Garr Reynolds’ webinar Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery. I know Mr. Reynolds has quite a few fans around CRL–this should be a great opportunity to hone your slide creation skills. From the webinar description:

Safari Books Online invites you to an exclusive webcast with Garr Reynolds, author of the best-selling book Presentation Zen. Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to learn how to improve the way you give presentations, from conception to creation to delivery!

Looks like it’s not too late to register, if you haven’t done so already. It’s free and scheduled for 60 minutes.

I’ve got a round of updates to run on the servers, meaning everything will be briefly unavailable later today. We’re generally back up and running within a couple of minutes. If this conflicts with something you’ve got planned, now’s the time to tell me. Otherwise, sorry in advance for the inconvenience.