Be yourself! Don’t try to be someone different because you’re behind a microphone. Ben Avery from The Strangers and Aliens podcast
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How To Moderate a Panel Like a Pro by Scott Kirsner (Harvard Business Review) - 0 views
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Panel discussions are a great opportunity to derive a diverse wealth of information in a short amount of time. What differentiates a good panel discussion from a great one is an effective moderator. Much of the panel discussion's success is attributed to the panel moderator. Key takeaways: This article focuses on the effects of how a good moderator can impact a panel discussion. A good moderator is a person who is responsible, aware, organized and a strong speaker. It's important that moderators differentiate themselves from the panelists but at the same time, also make the effort to create a connection between the moderator, panelists and the audience.
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100 Tips to Make your Podcast Great - 0 views
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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
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Don’t over-edit and remove all of the silences. It’s hard for people to follow. DJ City from Japan Experience Podcast
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If you’re new and lack confidence, do what actors do: rehearse, rehearse, and build your confidence. Byron Friday
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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
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Visualize your audience so you can make your podcast more conversational. Wade Wingler from Fathers Over Forty
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Create templates to speed up your workflow: shownotes, opening and closing audio, and anything repetitive. Max Flight from Airplane Geeks Podcast and Podcasting Passion
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Be yourself! Don’t try to be someone different because you’re behind a microphone. Ben Avery from The Strangers and Aliens podcast
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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!
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HowStuffWorks "Virtual Reality Immersion" - 2 views
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In a virtual reality environment, a user experiences immersion, or the feeling of being inside and a part of that world. He is also able to interact with his environment in meaningful ways. The combination of a sense of immersion and interactivity is called telepresence.
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Depth of information refers to the amount and quality of data in the signals a user receives when interacting in a virtual environment.
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This article discusses and clarifies the ideas of virtual realities. This site also provides a very helpful video on the first page, called "The Internet of Things". The video gives great visuals and examples to help solidify the concepts surrounding virtual realities. Very interesting, hope you like it!
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228: The future of privacy. Surveillance society. Mobile security. Genome identificatio... - 0 views
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Kevin Haggerty, professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Alberta, on surveillance and security.
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Kopimism prepares to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V Sweden success in Canada | Toronto Star - 0 views
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50 Websites with Fantastic Color Schemes - Speckyboy Design Magazine - 0 views
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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.
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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.
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5 Killer Web Design Tips That Will Make Your Life Easier | Adda Birnir - 0 views
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We all want to have a beautifully designed website and yet, it's surprisingly hard. So what is it that great designers know that the rest of us don't?
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The key to good web design, says Ryan Shafer, Lead Digital Designers at MTV & VH1, is remembering that the web is really just a bunch of text. "I encourage all budding web designers to embrace that the web is fundamentally about typography design."
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For headlines: Make them bold and easy to scan San serif typefaces are great for headlines because they are stark and easy to read at larger sizes For body text, you want to maximize legibility: For lots of text opt for a serif typeface Make the font-size much larger than you think is necessary, we recommend 16 px at minimum Lines should never be more than 50-60 characters long
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When it comes to picking a color pallette the key is to pick it and stick (to) it. Consistency is everything when it comes to creating a cohesive color palette for your site.
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When it comes to picking a font-face you want to pick something super easy to read, graphic, and maybe something a little, you know, whimsical.
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The most important design tip is also the simplest: "Make sure your content has breathing room; give it proper margins will help with legibility and focus."
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"Too much text can be a bit daunting. Text is necessary so make sure to break it up with larger sub headings and legible paragraphs. Considering using icons or images as alternative ways to communicate your point."
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Consistency is key. Nothing will tank your design faster than picking one design direction and then switching it halfway through.
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An Introduction to Color Theory for Web Designers - Tuts+ Web Design Article - 0 views
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Composed of 3 colors on separate ends of the color spectrum. There is a very easy way to create a Triadic color scheme:
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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.
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An Analogous color scheme is based on a careful selection of colors in the same area of the color spectrum.
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there are a few tools at our disposal that make color selection extremely easy when utilized properly.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Surveillance Society | TIME.com - 0 views
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Privacy is mostly an illusion. A useful illusion, no question about it, one that allows us to live without being paralyzed by self-consciousness.
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Like children of a certain age who think closing their eyes will make them invisible, we assume that no one sees or hears our private moments, and we’re right—until someone watches or listens.
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The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by secrets that would not stay hidden and made a masterpiece, Rear Window, from the premise that entire lives (and deaths) are on display behind the uncovered windows of anonymous cities, just waiting for a watcher to decrypt them
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But the revelation of the NSA’s vast data-collection programs by a crusading contract worker, Edward Snowden, has made it clear that the rise of technology is shattering even the illusion of privacy.
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And at the same time, ever more sophisticated computer algorithms make it possible to sift through and analyze larger and larger slices of that data, raising social and ethical dilemmas that cannot be ignored
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This is another very interesting article on the surveillance society. I really enjoyed this article because it includes many lines that are relatable to everyone and that also help in understanding the issue. This article is very easy to understand and gives a bunch of interesting examples on surveillance and society.
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5 Scripting Tips To Help You Make Podcasts For The Ear - 0 views
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Scripting distorts what people actually want to say when they are preparing for a speech, presentation, or podcast. A contemporary assumption is that if it is written, it will sound better with bigger words and unnecessary embellishments. This article offers 5 scripting tips to make the process more effective. Key takeaways: Write the way you talk. Especially in the context of participatory media, content should be delivered to encourage conversation. Conversational scripting is what differentiates a good script from a great script.
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Has new media changed copywriting? - Direct Marketing News - 0 views
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Caputo and contender Dunleavy discuss whether or not new media has changed copywriting. Caputo agrees in that the processes has gone from a thoughtful, multi-step process to the simple process of a few keystrokes. Dunleavy argues that the processes has not changed, but the creative writing process remains the same. She says that the biggest difference is instead of talking directly to the audience, we must engage them in conversation. Key takeaway: Copywriting in new media involves a great deal of participation as a contingency.
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How to Make Viral Content | Social Media Today - 0 views
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They discovered that posts inspiring feelings of awe, anger or anxiety are shared more often than others, with anger being the most viral emotion of all.
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e originator of a novel idea will reap an outsize share of the benefits and, while attention is focused on them, turn that attention into the foundation of a great business.
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You can give your content a nudge towards popularity by partnering with social influencers such as bloggers, tweeters and other social media stars, or celebrities.
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This article explains how although it is not always possible to predict if content will go viral, there are some similarities between content that has gone viral in the past. For example, Walter explains that viral content shares common features like addressing real-world problems, by evoking emotion (such as anger or humour), and usually has an element of surprise. Walter also adds that how material is distributed and by whom (ex. if celebrities are endorsing it) often plays a key role in whether it will reach a level of virality.
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Strategies to Grow Your Business and Build Your Brand - 1 views
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This article refers to the lecture and assignment of the power of social media tools to represent a brand or organization. Furthermore, this article talks about the four big social media platforms, being LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. These social media tools are great for commercial use; to connect and gather interest from the public. It touches base with individuals on an almost personal perspective, as the platforms talk directly to an individual or certain group. This article emphasizes why these 4 well known platforms are being used by marketing teams and organizations themselves.
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serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction
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dramas, historical dramas, war films, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop
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frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time
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Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way
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They are sometimes an offshoot of fantasy films (or superhero films), or they share some similarities with action/adventure films
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easily evaluate a film within its genre and allow for meaningful comparisons and some judgments on greatness
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This webpage relates to our earlier discussion about genre theory which depicted some forms of media are more prone to fit into a particular genre label. More so this page outlines the main types of genres in film which could be helpful for the media episodes project, in order to help identify an appropriate audience and content per the given episode content.
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How To Make A Video Go Viral - Based On The Variables In This Algorithm - 2 views
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