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Rachel Boere

100 Tips to Make your Podcast Great - 0 views

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shared by Rachel Boere on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Be yourself! Don’t try to be someone different because you’re behind a microphone. Ben Avery from The Strangers and Aliens podcast
  • Prepare notes beforehand. Even a rough outline can help. Ron Eastwood
  • Listen to your own podcast! This can be a quality-check or to find ways to improve. Max Flight from Airplane Geeks Podcast and Podcasting Passion
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  • Be honest with your audience, give them something personal to connect with. Craig from Making Business and Sales Work
  • Don’t over-edit and remove all of the silences. It’s hard for people to follow. DJ City from Japan Experience Podcast
  • If you’re new and lack confidence, do what actors do: rehearse, rehearse, and build your confidence. Byron Friday
  • Podcast your Passion! You’ll be amazed at how easy it easy to produce episodes if you simply podcast something you’re passionate about. From sports teams, to video games. Podcast something that excites you! Nick from Who-Dey Weekly
  • Visualize your audience so you can make your podcast more conversational. Wade Wingler from Fathers Over Forty
  • Create templates to speed up your workflow: shownotes, opening and closing audio, and anything repetitive. Max Flight from Airplane Geeks Podcast and Podcasting Passion
  • Be yourself! Don’t try to be someone different because you’re behind a microphone. Ben Avery from The Strangers and Aliens podcast
  • Rachel Boere on 04 Feb 14
     
    This article gives 100 tips from various podcasters around the world that will make your podcast great. Tips like listening to your own show to find ways to improve, be yourself behind the mic, and don't over edit can be helpful for anyone. This list also has links to the podcasts the advice is coming from. Lots to check out! 
Talia Baksh

50 Websites with Fantastic Color Schemes - Speckyboy Design Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Talia Baksh on 24 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • 50 Websites with Fantastic Color Schemes
  • A great color scheme can make or break a website. It’s got to be good looking, fitting, and appeal to the site’s users. At the same time it must not be distracting, or impede the users ability to view the page.
  • The websites that we highlight in this article have color schemes that do all that and more. They are truly great uses of color scheme to produce creative and beautiful websites that users love to look at almost as much as they love to use.
  • Talia Baksh on 24 Mar 14
     
    This website provides advice on what colour combinations go well together when creating a website template. It contains sample templates of webpages.
Talia Baksh

An Introduction to Color Theory for Web Designers - Tuts+ Web Design Article - 0 views

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shared by Talia Baksh on 23 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • What is Color Theory?
  • 3 terms which define the basic Color Theory:
  • Here are 3 of the commonly accepted structures for a good color scheme: triadic, compound, and analogous:
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  • Rather than straining to accommodate for a particular area of the color spectrum, the eye is provided a balance.
  • Contrast Contrast reduces eyestrain and focuses user attention by clearly dividing elements on a page. The most apparent example of contrast is an effective selection of background and text color, as shown below:
  • Vibrancy
  • Brighter colors lead the user to feel more energetic as a result of your design, which is particularly effective when you are trying to advertise a product or invoke an emotional response. Darker shades relax the user, allowing their mind to focus on other things.
  • How Do I Select an Effective Color Scheme?
  • Complementation Complementation refers to the way we see colors in terms of their relationships with other colors. When colors occupy opposite ends of the color spectrum, they lead people to consider a design visually appealing by establishing a happy medium the eye can reside in.
  • Triadic Color Scheme
  • Composed of 3 colors on separate ends of the color spectrum. There is a very easy way to create a Triadic color scheme:
  • Take a color wheel, and choose your base color. Draw an Equilateral Triangle from this point. The three points of the triangle will form your tri-color scheme. By using an Equilateral Triangle, you can ensure the colors have equal vibrancy and compliment each other properly.
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  • The Compound color scheme is based on providing a range of Complementary Colors: two colors are chosen from opposite ends of the color spectrum.
  • Analogous
  • An Analogous color scheme is based on a careful selection of colors in the same area of the color spectrum.
  • Compound Color Scheme (aka Split Complimentary)
  • there are a few tools at our disposal that make color selection extremely easy when utilized properly.
  • Kuler
  • A tool developed by Adobe, Kuler is aimed at providing an intuitive way to create a color palette. Every color on the palette can be individually modified, or chosen as the base color, with a few simple clicks. Palettes can be saved and published, and there are a number of great community entries available on their site. Under each color, the export codes are provided (including hexadecimal).
  • Color Scheme Designer 3
  • By providing a very simple and controlled selector, Color Scheme Designer provides a very low barrier of entry, and its choice of color principles present a variety of options. While it doesn't teach its users why the colors work well together (Kuler's dynamic color wheel is much more effective in that regard), its results are great as a starting point or to finish a prototype.
  • Its more advanced options are very useful: features such as the ability to adjust an entire palette's saturation and contrast, color blind overlays, and sample website previews are things I hope Kuler implements very soon.
  • Summary Choosing colors on opposite ends of the spectrum creates a visual harmony for the eyes. A high contrast between elements makes text easily readable, and guides your reader's attention. The brighter the colors, the more mental energy they will consume. Don't be afraid to use tools such as Kuler and Color Scheme Designer 3, they only make your life easier and prevent you from becoming frustrated with the learning process.
  • Talia Baksh on 23 Mar 14
     
    This website contains very detailed information on colour theory. It defines and explains the 3 core principles of colour theory (complementation, contrast and vibrancy). It also advises the reader on structures of how to select good colour schemes (triadic, compound, and analogous). Furthermore, it includes advice on tools the reader can use to design colour schemes.
Jayesh Mistry

Interview Skills: 10 Tips to Improve Interview Performance - 0 views

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shared by Jayesh Mistry on 03 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Jayesh Mistry on 03 Mar 14
     
    As much as we think that interviewers are trying to pull information from us, they are also delivering us interviewees with a wealth of information. Martin discusses, briefly in this article, that the majority of the information and interviewer delivers you with is at the beginning, either directly or indirectly. Therefore, it is vital to be extremely attentive and listen as much as, or more than you plan to speak. Key takeaways: Interviewing is a cultivated skill that not everyone has at the beginning of their job-hunting career. The presence of non-verbal communication is also something that is learned through experience and cannot necessarily be taught.
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