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This time Adobe is introducing another cool software that would revolutionary change the designing and content publishing world soon. Project ROME is an all-in-one content creation and publishing application that lets virtually anyone at work, home or school inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects. application that lets virtually anyone at work, home or school* inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects.

With the Project ROME you can create, publish and share any type of mostly used communications material, varied from printed materials and presentations to digital documents and websites; It suits for work place, schools and homes.

Project ROME offers a comprehensive tools, media types and publishing options to design your everyday projects with multimedia and easily create new things like animations and websites.

Making designing more easy project ROME contains an inspiring set of templates for all types of communications. Making interactive media with flash animation is become a piece of cake with Adobe ROME. After making your designing project spiced up as you need you can publish it as a presentations, web site, printable document or an animation.

Project ROME also never forgot the Web 2 world, where sharing is the core; giving the ability to share your contents via common Social Networking tools like Facbook, Twitter and blogs & forums. You can also share contents with other Project ROME users and get their feedback for your project.

Amazingly user friendly Project ROME’s user interafce ensures that you can learn it fast and work fast. Currently this application is Free for use under a free preview program for a limited time.

However, though Project ROME will be an ideal solution for average designers and individual personal users for quick design projects, professional designers and developers will still continue using Adobes’ flagship applications like Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash and Microsoft’s PowerPoint for projects where complete customizations and original works are needed.

Here is the the link to Download and Try Project ROME for FREE for a limited time. Do not forget to post your experience of Project ROME in comments. Happy reading, until next post.

Most of the times Creativity is all about Lateral Thinking, or how we see things out of the box. If you have the ability think differently from an ordinary person, you can create new things or create thing in a new way. You can be creative. So lateral thinking helps you to standout from whatever the the work you do, may be presentations designing, web designing, or graphic designing, and even for a carpenter,a sales person, or a CEO in a big corporation creativity helps for success.

Still it is not well understood whether the Lateral Thinking ability is a inborn talent or a learnt talent. However there are no. of lessons, exercises and activities out there to improve the lateral thinking power of our minds. In today post I present you a sample of a such exercise. Hope you will enjoy it!!

EXERCISE

The first 4 images are the questions and the answers are given at the end.

Please do not look at the answers first, these are really good, try it out.

There are no joke/silly answers…..Each question has a logical answer.

Question 1

Question 1

Question 3

Question 4

ANSWERS

1. The last person took the basket with the egg in it.

2. All the other card players were women.

3. Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth.

4. The recluse lived in a lighthouse.

HOW WAS YOUR LATERAL THINKING??

Today I watched a video by Nancy Duarte*, (I respectfully treat she as my Presentation Guru) sharing a precious piece of presentation design secrets. “Duarte Design’s Five Rules for Presentations by Nancy Duarte” perfectly visualizes the funderentals of designing a Professional PowerPoint presentation. If you watch the video I am pretty sure you will not decorate your next presentation, but design it.

However here is the Duartes’ Five Rules for Presentations.

Rule no 1 : Treat your audience as king.
Rule no 2 : Spread ideas and move people.
Rule no 3 : Help them see what you are saying.
Rule no 4 : Practice design not decoration.
Rule no 5 : Cultivate healthy relationships with your slides and your audience.

So, here is the video and watch it.

Hope you will learn to decorate design presentations and change not only the minds of people but also HEARTS!

English for Presentations at International Conferences
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 1441965904 | 180 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Good presentation skills are key to a successful career in academia. English for Presentations at International Conferences is an essential title, as this is the first guide to giving presentations at international conferences ever written specifically for researchers and professors whose first language is not English.

This book is designed to help non-native English speakers to prepare and deliver effective presentations at international conferences. It will be the first book ever written on presentations specifically from the perspective of non-native English speakers. It will be written in an English that readers will be able to understand easily. This is not ’simple’ English as a native speaker would interpret it, but a particular way of writing with minimal redundancy in which key points are highlighted clearly. The book will cover not only the typical difficulties of all presenters (structure, gaining audience attention, graphics on slides etc), but will also focus above all on those issues that cause specific problems for the non-native.

With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with examples taken from real presentations, the book covers: â?¢ English usage â?¢ gaining and maintaining audience attention â?¢ handing questions and answers from the audience â?¢ overcoming nerves â?¢ preparing and practicing â?¢ pronunciation and intonation â?¢ slide preparation â?¢ useful phrases for each stage of the presentation.

Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 20 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from 35 countries to prepare and give presentations. This guide is thus also highly recommended for trainers in English for Academic Purposes. Other books in the series: English for Writing Scientific Papers English for Scientific Correspondence English Usage, Style, and Grammar for Science

If you are interested to buy the book in Amazon Click HERE.