Just who was Ignaz Semmelweis?
Seth Godin has a great post about Ignaz Semmelweis.
Who was he? He was the dude who figure out that you will save lives by washing your hands before assisting mothers giving birth.
Seth goes onto give examples of Galileo, txt’ing while driving and appreciating expensive wine as ways in which human nature is happy to be ignorant to the most basic human facts.
What basic fact have you ignored today?
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Wealth Mastery Melbourne 2008 – CANCELLED!
Interesting! This week Wealth Master in Melbourne, Australia 2008 was cancelled. It will interesting to see how EmpowerNet bounce back from this.
I certainly embrace the whole Anthony Robbins process, but at times feel that as a product, they fall short of expectations.
While I am sure that numbers were low, I still think It will be VERY expensive for EmpowerNet. Certainly any event I book through them I will
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Saying thanks in a conference
I couldn’t agree with Seth anymore when he says:
Prepare for the talk by taking pictures of each person. If they’re shy, you can even do photographs in groups of two or three. Good photos, clever photos, funny photos… photos that are interesting are best.
Then, create a new presentation. Put each photo on its own slide, preferably with a well designed ID below it (it should be on a black box, with a nice sans serif font reversed out. Like you see on cable TV news.)
String one after the other. Build a dissolve transition between each one. Program it to put up a new slide every two seconds–don’t go too slow!–and to loop the presentation.
Ten minutes before you’re due to start, while everyone is finding their seats, run the presentation. It’ll cycle 5 or 10 times before you start speaking. When you get up, start your presentation and just dive into the meaty stuff.
I have been to so many events like this where they thank the dog, thank your mum and then thank you the attendee…
A much better solution!
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FOUR-FOOT DIAL SHOWS MYSTERIES
Link (from Seth Godin)
FOUR-FOOT DIAL SHOWS PHONES MYSTERIES
The intricacies of using the dial telephone come easily to students at a western secretarial school, where a four-foot dial was recently rigged up to explain its mysteries.
Not a dummy, the big dial actually works. It is connected with two telephones, an amplifying apparatus, and a loudspeaker. When the instructor dials a number, the loudspeaker reproduces, so that all may hear them, the typical sounds that will be heard; and the instructor explains to the pupils what they mean.
I love it!
Everything new for a while…
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