Two major skills are essential for business: writing and presenting. The first, requires entire blogs and books dedicated to the art and craft. The latter, is through practice, experience, and inspiration. Most blogs rarely feature slides as a medium for presenting information. However, I recently ran into SlideShare, a youtube of slides on a variety of topics. It’s a great resource for inspiration

The presentation below is a great introduction on designing better slides. Follow through to SlideShare to find more presentations, on a variety of topics. There are many great presentations and many bad horrible presentations.

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See the Steve Jobs iPhone presentation after the jump.

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As a young professional, building a personal portfolio of knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) is important to sell yourself for a promotion or for a new position elsewhere. Young and inexperienced Gen Y’s have to quickly build those KSA’s or risk being stuck in a rut. How else can we leverage our expertise in social networking and web tools?

Building Networks is More Than Just LinkedIN

Building an online network is easy. Just point, click, and wait. But with Twitter, Facebook status updates, posts, pictures, applications, it just seems to be a shouting match. Eventually, it’s questionably spam.

As we go from one job to another job, we bring more and more experience and proprietary knowledge. We learn company methodologies, techniques, and materials. While I don’t condone “stealing” confidential information and jumping ship to share company secrets, your thought process is inspired by the newfound knowledge. Furthermore, during your tenure at a company, build relationships, both with your internal staff and with external clients as well. Foster those relationships, even if you go work somewhere else.

With this “black book” of contacts, you will be much more valuable to the new firm. It provides business relationships and possible new clients. Alternatively, those contacts can be resources for you to tap into for subject matter knowledge.

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What’s new with the new 3G iPhone? Well, 3G of course and GPS. There’s a list of slightly incremental enhancements such as the black back, flush head phone jack, rounder shape, and so forth; but there’s still a few key missing features:

1. More disk space - same 8 and 16 gig versions
2. Better camera - same 2MP, no autofocus camera (which is almost useless for advanced features)
3. No video recording - which might be able to be upgraded via software
4. No MMS - are you serious?
5. Copy and paste - a huge mistake but again, possible via software upgrade.

What is good about the 3G iPhone?

Other than the 3G and GPS as stated above, it has better battery life. 10 hours on 2G vs. 8 hours on old phone; and it has 5 hours on 3G. Oh, one more big thing, ATT is subsidizing it. The iPhone is now:

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I’m heading out to SF for the weekend to take a break from blogging, work, and busy everyday life. In the mean time, I found this old video thanks to Lifehacker. I’ve read his book about the 4 hour work week and haven’t actually been sold on it yet.

After long consideration, evaluation, and reading hundreds of blogs, I came to the realization that advertising has diluted the quality of writing, specifically in my own blog. As of today, my site will be free of ads, namely Google Adsense, and any other form of paid banners, buttons, or graphics. What I do maintain on my blog are services I personally use and recommend, such as Twitter or the Brazen Careerist network. However, I receive no monetary compensation for displaying the links.

My main reasons for this choice is this:

• Low return on investment - Adsense returns about $2 a month on average.
• Turnoff - Readers are turned off on the monetization of the site.
• Wrong purpose - I am not trying to make money on this blog. I’m hoping it will generate publicity and open doors to other opportunities.
• Good old fashion basics - I miss the good old days of “dear diary.”

What do you guys think?