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Are you still annoying your audience with boring slide after boring slide? Break free from PowerPoint bullets! Learn from photojournalists - tell stories with visuals, and your audience will love you. A Visual Feast - What the World Eats This article is inspired by a captivating photo essay from Time magazine titled: What the World Eats.

Being in this world I was happy to see our innovations being shared. When I read the comments (unfortunately closed ATM) I became aware of the largely unfavorable reactions to solutions that we are a part of. I was shocked. So many people willing to throw stones and to assign conspiratorial motivations to the "improvements" being introduced.

From the article: "The curators in my world whom I follow online -- technology leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers -- almost never write in absolute terms or as the sole arbiter of an industry standard or direction. Instead, they see themselves in a collaborative role and increasingly defining themselves as curators (and yes, using that exact word) since they act as both holders of a "collection of knowledge" and a teacher of that knowledge area."

In October, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, got a quirky request on YouTube. A hyperactive instructor in a plaid jacket posted a video inviting her to do a Skype interview with his "World Regions" geography class at Virginia Tech.

"The term 'digital divide' has long been used to describe the gap between those with access to communications technology and those without-applying to both home computer ownership as well as the delivery of home broadband access, which is still an issue. More recently, the term has referred to the gap in the type of engagement with the digital world. It has come to mean the divide between those who use technology to learn and create and those who use it more for entertainment or staying up to date on social networking sites. It might easily be summed up as the gap between creators and consumers."