When Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air as “the world’s thinnest notebook,” one slide showed a photograph of the new computer on top of an envelope, which was even larger than the computer itself. That’s it. No words, no text boxes, no graphs, just the photo. How much more powerful can you get? The picture says it all. (The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo, pages 99-100)
Scott Bourne’s Essays On Inspiration, Creativity & Vision In Photography
From Essay #4 Storytelling Part 2 (page 21):
You see ALL communications and ALL media - whether they be centered around radio, television, motion pictures, blogs, podcasts or photography - revolve around story. Story is everything. If you get that, you'll be a better photographer.
If you need help getting to the point where you are a storyteller, you can use a vision exercise that I often talk about called SAS - which stands for Subject, Attention, Simplify.
“Word cloud websites are great ways to create colorful interesting graphics that have lots of impact but are not much work to create. Though many programs are available to do this, this video gives you a brief overview of Tagxedo, a program that not only creates colorful Word Cloud, but makes it easy to save them and use them in other programs, something many of the other programs don’t do.” (From Yvon Prehn) Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
With Tagxedo, you can:
“Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive, A digital literacy guide for the information age”, by Mark Briggs (Assistant Managing Editor for Interactive News, The News Tribune)
PDF English version now available for download; also available in Spanish or Portuguese. You can also order hard copies.
Topics include: Chapter 1: FTP, MB, RSS, Oh My
Chapter 4: New Reporting Methods
Chapter 6: How to Report News for the Web
Chapter 7: Digital Audio and Podcasting
Chapter 8: Shooting and Managing Digital Photos
Chapter 9: Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories
Chapter 10: Basic Video Editing
Chapter 11: Writing Scripts, Doing Voice-overs
For continuing discussion of new technology for journalists, check out Mark Briggs’ Journalism 2.0 site.
Throughout your Web design or redesign project, you should take advantage of what is already known about best practices for each step of the process. The Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (PDF, 20.64MB) brings you these best practices compiled through an extensive process of research and review. (From usability.gov)
You can also download specific sections of the book:
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