Hidden treasures of Europe

Under the slogan 'So similar, so different, so European' this clip shows just how gorgeous and surprising Southeast Europe can be. Yes, the region is different and this is what makes it so vibrant, exciting and fascinating. But is it actually that different? 

One thing is certain; Southeast Europe has undergone tremendous changes in the last 20 years, let alone the last decade. On its path towards the European Union, the countries of the region have transformed their societies, implementing a series of thorough reforms. And anybody who is not familiar with Southeast Europe would probably be surprised to find out how many treasures it has been hiding; how much potential it heralds, and how much beauty there is to discover. 

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey have all set course towards the European Union. Croatia has gone the furthest on the path towards the European Union; it is set to become the 28th Member State on 1 July 2013. 


So similar, so different, so European

Position paper

Dear colleagues, 


here you have the information from Libri about position paper.


"It should be around 3-4 pages in length, typed and double spaced, 
Times New Roman 12. 
The topic is: Overcoming Foreign Language Anxiety.
 It counts as 10% of your total grade"


I hope that our dear professor Luiza can explain to us something about the topic.

Abortion shouldn’t be encouraged

Dear colleagues, please check out my main pints for my persuasive speech.


Main points:

™Reasons for abortion

™Abortion according to Islam

™Abortion and Bible

™Facts and Statistics

™Say No to abortion 

Reasons for abortion :

•Birth control

•Inability to take care  for children

•An unwanted pregnancy

•Incest

•To prevent birth problems or several medical problems

•Social reasons 

Abortion according to Islam

Whosoever has spared the life of a soul, it is as though he has spared the life of all people.

Whosoever has killed a soul, it is as though he has murdered all of mankind.Qur'an 5:32

Abortion and Bible

"Cursed be he that takes reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say,

Amen.“Deuteronomy 27:25

Facts and Statistics about abortion

WORLDWIDE

Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million

Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000

™In Macedonia

The number of abortions is almost equal to the number of births.

Say No to abortion ! 

-Healthy family

-You do abort, you are murderer

-Quran is against abortion

-Bible says no to abortion

-You kill your future

-A woman who had an abortion may still have to deal with abortion consequences.

-We need kids in our lives

- Good father 

- Careful mother

- Life is good

-Babies are angels

On the end I'd like to end up with :

“Abortion is the ultimate violence ,,

Robert Casey 

THANK YOU

Source Information 

™From http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/abortion_1.shtml with topic Islamic teachings on abortion posted on 2011.Found on on 10 December 2011.

™Statistic for abortion worldwide were found on http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html, on topic Abortion Facts.Material found on 10 December 2011.

™ Abortion statistics for Macedonia were founded on  www.abortusne.org.mk , with topic ,,Марш за живот - Берлин 2011’’. Material found on 10 December 2011.

™From http://www.av1611.org/jmelton/abortion.html, with topic  Ten Bible Reasons Why It Is Wrong. Material found on 10 December 2011.

 

Paper

Dear collagues,

here you can find the citation from syllabus for Proposition paper
"Paper: A short paper is required in this class. It should be around 3-4 pages in length, typed and double spaced, and counts as 10% of your total grade. For this paper you will be answering the following question: What socially constructs our reality? (Family, Media, Culture, Gender, etc). You need to determine what kinds of influences make us what and who we are and support your answer using your own experience and the texts that will be provided to you in class. Online material can be found on LIBRI for your convenience. For the sake of sharing experiences and learning from others this paper should be presented to the whole class. Power point presentation is also expected to be used by each student as it will be evaluated."


Take care !

PR

Public Relations (PR) is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.

An earlier definition of public relations, by The first World Assembly of Public Relations Associations, held in Mexico City, in August 1978, was "the art and social science of analyzing trends, predicting their consequences, counseling organizational leaders, and implementing planned programs of action, which will serve both the organization and the public interest."^[1]

Others define it as the practice of managing communication between an organization and its publics.^[2] Public relations provides an organization or individual exposure to their audiences using topics of public interest and news items that provide a third-party endorsement^[3]and do not direct payment.^[4] Common activities include speaking at conferences, working with the media, crisis communications, social media engagement,^[5] and employee communication.

The European view of public relations notes that besides a relational form of interactivity there is also a reflective paradigm that is concerned with publics and the public sphere; not only with relational, which can in principle be private, but also with public consequences of organizational behaviour ^[6][7] A much broader view of interactive communication using the Internet, as outlined by Phillips and Young in Online Public Relations Second Edition (2009), describes the form and nature of Internet-mediated public relations. It encompasses social media and other channels for communication and many platforms for communication such as personal computers (PCs), mobile phones andvideo game consoles with Internet access. The increasing use of the mentioned technologies give the media a democratisation power and thus, aid to the demystification of subjects.

Public relations is used to build rapport with employees, customers, investors, voters, or the general public.^[4] Almost any organization that has a stake in how it is portrayed in the public arena employs some level of public relations. There are a number of public relations disciplines falling under the banner of corporate communications, such as analyst relations, media relations, investor relations, internal communications and labor relations. Most of them include the aspect of peer review to get liability.

Other public relations disciplines include:

• Financial public relations – providing information mainly to business reporters
• Consumer/lifestyle public relations – gaining publicity for a particular product or service, rather than using advertising
• Crisis public relations – responding to negative accusations or information
• Industry relations – providing information to trade bodies
• Government relations – engaging government departments to influence policymaking

The three golden rules for presenting

Practise, practise, practise…….

My dictionary’s definition of the word practise is “to do repeatedly as an exercise to improve a skill”.To me, this proves two things: first, the more you practise something, you better you get at it. And second, the people who compile dictionaries aren’t necessarily the best writers in the world.

It’s a funny thing, though: no one doubts that you have to practise to get better at most things – playing a musical instrument, playing a sport, driving, cooking, you name it – but for some reason, lots of people don’t think this applies to presentations.

Maybe the thinking is that, hey, I work with this stuff every day, so I don’t need to practise it.

Well yes, you might work with it every day, but you don’t present it every day. You may never have presented it before. So practising it would be a smart idea.

Making a presentation involves public speaking, which can be seriously scary. Famously, speaking in public has been voted scarier than dying (which says something about its lack of popularity).

One reason for this is that everyone will be staring at you. If you make a mistake, fluff your lines or go blank, there’s no escape and nowhere to hide.

Practising beforehand will reduce the chances of those things happening. It will also give you more confidence: something which makes you better at almost anything you do.

A couple of tips: practise out loud. Even better, record your presentation on tape and play it back. You’ll hear how you sound to others. You’ll probably be speaking too fast, and listening to yourself like this will help you slow it down.

Also, listen to your tone of voice and your volume. Try and keep your presentation easy on the ear and on the eye: add pauses, gestures, intonations and so on. You may well find that some sections work well presented a certain way, while others work better another way. Practising beforehand will help you get a natural flow to your presentation.

So there it is. Practising may not make your presentation perfect; but it will improve it, probably by a big margin. After all, would you rather make your mistakes on your own and fix them – or make them in front of your important and critical audience?

Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

As the sad news of the death of co-founder and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, hits the headlines, we pay tribute by sharing his ‘Presentation Secrets’ courtesy of Carmine Gallo.

1. Create memorable moments

Every Steve Jobs presentation has one moment that leaves everyone in awe. These ‘moments’ are scripted ahead of time to complement Steve Jobs’s slides, the Apple website, press releases and advertisements. At Macworld 2008, Jobs pulled the new MacBook Air out of a manila inter-office envelope to show everyone just how thin it was. Bloggers went nuts and it was the most common photograph of the event.

At last month’s ‘Rock & Roll’ event, the ‘water cooler’ moment wasn’t a product at all. Instead, it was Steve Jobs himself walking on stage after a long, health-related absence. He told the audience he now had the liver of a mid-twenties person who had died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs. “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for such generosity,” he said.

2. Stick to the rule of three
A Steve Jobs presentation is typically divided into three parts. The Rule of Three is one of most powerful concepts in dramatic writing –how many times have you seen a ‘two-act’ play? The human mind can only retain three or four ‘chunks’ of information, and Jobs is well aware of this principle. He even has a lot of fun with it.
During Macworld 2007, he teased the audience with ‘three’ revolutionary products: an MP3 player, a phone and an Internet communications device. Of course, he really only had one device — the iPhone.

3. Dress up the numbers

When Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, he said it came with a 5GB hard-drive. Only the most technical audience would understand the implications of that number. Jobs broke it down by saying, “That’s enough storage for 1,000 songs.” He made the number even more compelling by announcing that all those songs could fit in your pocket. Apple presenters never leave big numbers hanging without putting those numbers in perspective.

For example, during the ‘Rock & Roll’ music event, marketing head Phil Schiller announced that Apple had sold 220 million iPods to date. “That’s 73% of the market,” he said. Schiller took it one step further, and got a laugh, when he said Microsoft was ‘pulling up the rear’ with 1% market share.

4. Think visually
Apple presentations are strikingly simple and visual. For example, there is very little text on a Steve Jobs slide. While the average PowerPoint slide has forty words, there were far fewer than forty words in the first dozen slides of last week’s event. When Jobs talked about the popularity of iTunes around the world, his slide showed twenty-three flags of different countries instead of country names.
When he said the iPhone app store was celebrating its first anniversary, a slide appeared with a birthday cake holding one candle. When he talked about lower iPod prices, the new price was accompanied by photos of the iPods. Psychologists call this picture superiority: ideas are more easily recalled when presented with text and images instead of text alone.

5. Create Twitter-friendly headlines
Apple makes it simple for the media to talk about its products — the company writes the headlines for them. Now, reporters will tell you that they like to come up with their own headlines, but why then did hundreds of them use “World’s thinnest notebook” to describe the MacBook Air? Because it’s the best way to describe it. It’s the world’s thinnest notebook. Period.
Steve Jobs always describes a new product with a concise phrase that fits well within a 140-character Twitter post. What’s an iPod? “One thousand songs in your pocket.” What’s Genius Mix for iTunes? “It’s like having a DJ mix the songs in your library.”

6. Share the stage

Jobs rarely gives an entire presentation by himself. Instead he surrounds himself with a supporting cast. He had a large supporting cast at the September 9 music event, including Apple VPs Jeff Robbin and Phil Schiller.

In October 2008 Jobs introduced lead designer Jonathan Ive, who gave the audience a tutorial about Apple’s newest line of aluminium MacBooks. Although few companies are more closely associated with their founder than Apple, a Jobs presentation is rarely a one-man play. He features supporting characters who play a key role in the narrative.

7. Practise, practise and practise more
According to some observers, Steve Jobs labours over every slide, each one “written like a piece of poetry.” Jobs has been known to spend hours upon hours over many days rehearsing every section of his keynotes. Nothing is left to chance. Jobs makes a presentation look effortless because he has spent hours preparing it.

8. Sell dreams, not products
Steve Jobs is passionately committed to changing the world and his passion shows in every presentation. In May 2005, Steve Jobs told Stanford graduates, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life… and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Anyone can learn the specific techniques Jobs uses to create visually creative slides and to craft an interesting story, but that message will fail to inspire an audience if there’s no enthusiasm behind it. Jobs has a nearly messianic  zeal to change the world. In your own way, so should you.


9. Introduce the antagonist
In every classic story, the hero fights the villain. The same holds true for a Steve Jobs presentation. In 1984, the villain was IBM, “Big Blue.” Before Jobs introduced the famous 1984 Ridley Scott ad to the Apple sales team, he painted a picture of Big Blue “bent on world domination” with Apple as the only one to stand in its way. Conquering a shared enemy is a powerful motivator, attracting fans and followers.

10. One more thing… Have Fun!
Jobs has fun and it shows. Despite relentless planning and hours of rehearsal, sometimes thing go wrong, but Jobs doesn’t let the small stuff get to him. Jobs’s clicker failed to advance the slides during a portion of the iPhone introduction during Macworld 2007. Jobs paused and told a very funny story about the time he and friend Steve Wozniak would hang out in Wozniak’s college dorm with a device that would screw up TV signals. It was a glimpse of Jobs the prankster. Most presenters would have frozen. Jobs acted with cool confidence because he’s up there to have fun.  It’s not about the slides.
This presentation article first appeared on Cult of Mac.
Carmine Gallo is a communications coach and author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience.
Thanks to Carmine Gallo for allowing us to publish this.

Material copied from '' http://www.presentationmagazine.com/presentation-secrets-of-steve-jobs-1066.htm'' on 18th of November 2011.The material was published on 6 October 2011.