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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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Top Drupal Gotchas, #2: White Screen / Not Enough PHP Memory

By Spencer Critchley
Nov 22, 2009 | Comments: 0

Continuing my effort to spare newcomers to Drupal from falling into this powerful content management system's most common traps, this time I look at a frequent cause of white screens - the sudden and scary devolution of a previously healthy...

Are Coders Nice?

By Amy Blankenship
Nov 22, 2009 | Comments: 2

A few months ago, the team my husband works on was hiring a new developer, and I overheard my husband talking to a friend he was considering recommending for the position. I surprised myself by my gut reaction which was,...

Work Flow Optimizations for Short Development Cycle Team

By Tom Barker
Nov 22, 2009 | Comments: 0

One of the responsibilities of being a technical manager is to optimize work flows and create self sustaining systems for the teams that you manage. One of my teams operates on an extremely short development cycle. They begin coding in...

Watching the Retweeted Get Retweeted-er: Power User Secret Retweetist Love

By Mark Drapeau
Nov 22, 2009 | Comments: 2

When Twitter decided to slowly roll out a new, official retweeting feature, people waited in anticipation. When they let their users know what it might look like, people debated whether that was the right way to deploy it. When it actually became available, people almost universally disliked it. But my post is about why I love the new Twitter retweet...

The Problem With The Linux Community

By Caitlyn Martin
Nov 20, 2009 | Comments: 22

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".

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