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Confessions of a Public Speaker

Presented by Scott Berkun
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at

For leaders, managers and anyone who speaks and expects someone to listen, Scott Berkun shares an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. Loosely based on his third book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, this fun, interactive webcast brings you lively lessons and insightful confessions, giving you new insights into the art of persuasion--as well as teaching and learning--directly from a master of the trade. Awesome early reviews include Wired's Editor in Chief, who said the book was "A fresh, fun, memorable take on the most critical thing: what we say. Highly recommended." And Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen said "Loved it!". Bring your toughest questions and situations for Scott to answer or solve.

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The Problem With The Linux Community

By Caitlyn Martin
Nov 20, 2009 | Comments: 1

While I'm very positive about the openSUSE team I must say that I am a lot less sanguine about some in their community. Some fans (or really fanatics) came out in force ready to attack the reviewer (me), to question my skills and even my sanity, to attack Ladislav Bodnar for posting the review, to blame the hardware, anything at all but the distro code which is, according to some, "the best release ever".

Robots.Txt and the .Gov TLD

By Carl Malamud
Nov 20, 2009 | Comments: 3

The robots.txt file should be used sparingly by government organizations and only in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Validation in Flex with Hamcrest-AS3

By Joel Hooks
Nov 20, 2009 | Comments: 1

Hamcrest? No, it isn't a fancy sandwich topping. Hamcrest is a framework for creating matchers, allowing matching rules to be defined declaratively (from Wikipedia). Hamcrest has been used by many popular unit testing frameworks including JUnit and FlexUnit 4. Hamcrest-AS3...

Asia Continues to be Facebook's Strongest Growth Region

By Ben Lorica
Nov 20, 2009 | Comments: 0

With Facebook topping 330 million active users over the past week, the company's strongest growth region continues to be Asia. Over the last 12 weeks, Facebook added close to 17M active users in Asia alone. Since my previous post, the share of active users from Asia grew by 2% (to 13.5% of all users), and roughly 1 in 7 users now come from the region. With a market penetration under 2%, Facebook is poised to add many more users in Asia (and Africa).

Four short links: 20 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
Nov 20, 2009 | Comments: 1

Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement -- Applying the open source approach to better standards. The Open Web Foundation Agreement itself establishes the copyright and patent rights for a specification, ensuring that downstream consumers may freely implement and reuse the licensed specification without seeking further permission. In addition to the agreement itself, we also created an easy-to-read "Deed" that provides a high level overview of the agreement. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

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