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A collection of 238 issues

de Bono's Lateral Thinking 'Six Hats'

Obituaries featuring unusual ambivalence appear across mainstream media this week at the death aged 88 of Edward de Bono. Many observers seemingly sharing such views, as found behind London’s Telegraph subscription [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/06/10/edward-de-bono-guru-lateral-thinking-spread-quirky-ideas-salesmans/] wall; “[he] peddled pseudoscience”, “had no false modesty”

Zoom Wave Vote Jolt

Here’s part of our new language of remote working business that we can adapt for the occasional extra bonding with our prospects. The zoom wave is that raised palm, close to our chin and in front of one shoulder, that gets jigged side to side, normally as we announce

Springtime Zoomscaping Talking Head Switch-Up Sextet

[/content/images/wordpress/2021/04/anthony-hopkins-oscar-2021-acceptance-thank-you-in-wales-ig-crop500gr.jpg] When does a ‘talking head’ TV documentary style presentation replace your own zoom setup? Above we see 2021 best actor Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins. His recorded, brief ‘thank you’ from Wales. Perched above what looks like a golf course. With perhaps strangely timely aeroplane

Have You Read The Book On It?

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekmhxXDLuD4] Here’s a screenshot from a music promo video from 2020. At the very beginning. Nasrene, about to sing her track Parties in the Park. Gets passed a tome. Oh, look. She’s reading the book on it. How to have a party

5 Text Prop On-Screen Tips From Radio

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2021/04/ash-help00-2021-04-15-500gr.jpg] opening salvo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The talk radio legend that is James Whale has long had a sidekick. Sadly a villawit, yet Asher Gould is a most complementary pair of comfy slippers for their natterings. Their channel has been shown via youtube

Ideas For Your Zoomscape Frieze

The latest Elgin Marbles brouhaha reminded me of this artistic trick for our own humble video projection scenery. For the uninitiated, the position of London’s British Museum which currently owns these sculptures from the Parthenon, is that they were legally acquired from the rulers of Athens at the time,

TechBro Backdrop

> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CM_wO1nhDc3/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] A post shared by salespodder (@salespodder) [https://www.instagram.com/p/CM_wO1nhDc3/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] The Woke of Sussex, slated by the countryfolk of his birth

Media Zoomscape Lessons From The Year Past

> For many months now, we have felt on the skids, We can't meet our friends and we can't hug the kids, But friends, be emboldened! All may not be lost, For the crocus of hope, she has poked through the frost. — Pam Ayres (@PamAyres) February 23, 2021 [https://twitter.com/

Zoom Fatigue Remedies A Year In

February 2021 saw the publication of this fascinating Stanford research [https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/23/four-causes-zoom-fatigue-solutions/] study. In part aimed at cementing a ‘Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue (ZEF) Scale’. Here’s one such definition for such general screen-time or webcam fatigue from elsewhere on the web [https://www.itweb.

Twelve Months Of TalkRadio Lockdown Zoomers

A UK speech radio station that was often a saviour over the pandemic. The ‘voice of common sense’ as many a strap ran. In sharp contradiction to tosh the big MSM players serve up. Mornings without Julia Hartley-Brewer in the week, and at weekend, Penny Smith (now sadly for me