Jackie Hartley’s BLOG

Came across this really good tip on using Powerpoint for presentations. It’s from Guy Kawasaki’s blog and makes real sense.
I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points…Ten is the […]

Just came across this quiz. If you were a superhero what sort would you be? A bit of fun. It’s even more fun when real people who know you, rather than a computer, come up with some suggestions.
We used to play a game on residential courses I ran for staff in an organisation I worked for. […]

I am just reading a book about a blogger in Iraq, Salam Pax, who writes a blog called Where is Raed? which is still running. It is a fascinating blog, which gives an insider’s view of the events taking place in Iraq. Salam doesn’t take sides but just tells it like it is, as someone […]

Not posting to this blog very often at the moment.
Am working on a new business idea - all very exciting - will reveal all in the near future. Mike too is pushing on with his arts idea too. Chez Highflyers is bubbling with excitement. It might all come to nothing but as Charles Handy says, […]

After much consultation and lots of useful feedback from our customers we have decided to move on this, but only partially. We are going to put our products on CD but send them out inside a customised binder. Apparently people still need to be able to handle a printed version and if we don’t send […]

I ran my first personal branding workshop today for a small group of photography students at the university. I was surprised how nervous I was, this is obviously not an area I feel fully confident with. I also found it hard working out how to pitch it - should we consider it from the perspective […]