Themes and Colors in Office 2007

Did some really cool stuff to overcome limitations in Excel 2007 with coloring of charts...

Colors and themes are interesting and found these links really good.

When people first starting using themes in office 2007, they get can easily get confused about the new coloring and font themes you can create, but once you get hte hang of these, you can create charts and documents with real pizazz!

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Nightmare presenting at the SharePoint User Group

Presented at the SharePoint User Group on Tuesday 17th June.

The topic was The need for speed and recovery...based on a sql perspective...

Was heckled by both the co-ordinator and another bloke as they were adamant that Sql Backups of SharePoint couldn't be trusted even though they had never had issues with clients and Microsoft had never advised them otherwise.

So how does one handle such heckling...It even went so far as the SharePoint MVP saying he didn't believ in sql log backups and simple recovery mode was the only way to go!

What an &^*&*&( ...say no more....so many people are ignorant of sql server and when they see a realy large log file they think, krap...The log file doesn't grow out of control unless people don't do log backups....

So how does one handle hecklers? Hammer them for more specifics or say that's off the topic tonight, we can get back to you on a break...

Also, looked up books on speaking and there are some good ones that help you get your presentation across....Some reading is now in order...

One book kind of sums up how to present by it's title alone...Presenting with 7 slides or less..
I had 30 slides and was juping all over the place....

Below, then, are links to articles which offer good advice for handling difficult audience members, even hecklers.
• Dealing with difficult speaking situations (work911.com)
• Advice from 3M on dealing with Hecklers (3M website)
• Dealing with disruptive audience members (from Speakernet News)
• How to handle difficult audiences (presentation-pointers.com)
• Handling various forms of audience disruption (refresher.com)
• Dealing with difficult audiences (effectivemeetings.com)
• Dealing with difficult negotiators (negotiatelikethepros.com)
• Presenting to difficult audiences (helpforschools.com)
• Dealing with tough questions (findarticles.com)
• Do's and don'ts for dealing with difficult people (findarticles.com)
• Dealing with difficult people (findarticles.com)
• Dealing with hecklers and "snipers" (findarticles.com)
• Advice for stand-up comics (jessethecomic.com)
• The BBC on why people heckle