The Challenge: Many of our clients require slide presentations as training materials or as speaker support and they’re looking to get away from the dreaded “Death by PowerPoint” experience. Our Solution: We work with our clients to develop a narrative, develop design and layout solutions, and create infographics and data visualizations so that the audience […]
#BookReview: Ten Steps On The Road To ‘Presentation Zen’
This is a repost of an article that originally appeared on the MKCREATIVE blog in May, 2010. The business/education/PR presentation got a boost in the ’90s when Microsoft PowerPoint gave us the opportunity to turn the staid lecture (from Lectio, ‘to read’) into a multi-media extravaganza of bullet points and pie charts and popping 15-point […]
#TECH: Mac? Windows? Need Both On Your iPad? Use Both! (Part III)
Is it a Mac? Is it a PC? It’s Virtualization! In 2014 on Tech Fridays, we looked at virtualization software that allows you to run multiple operating systems on one desktop or laptop. In a repost of the second article in this series, we covered the concept and the software packages of Parallels and VMWare. […]
#TECH: Mac? Windows? Need Both Operating Systems? Use Both! (Part II)
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(This is a repost of an article that previously appeared in 2012) Last week we introduced the idea of virtualization and how you can run Windows programs on an Apple laptop or desktop. Virtualization goes the other way as well, but who would want to run sleek OS X software on a clunky Windows machine?! […]
#NEWS: THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNTAIN LAUNCHES ONLINE CLASSES & SOCIAL SITE EXCLUSIVELY FOR NONPROFITS
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The latest entry in the rapidly-evolving distance learning education market is a new online education service geared exclusively to people who work for nonprofit organizations. The Knowledge Fountain, which launched today, is offering a spectrum of courses online covering fundraising, communications, organizational development, social media, and productivity software. The site pitches its product as “just […]
#HOWTO: Let Your iPhone Connect You To Volunteers & Deserving Projects
Apple has not always been a forthcoming corporation when it comes to providing outreach for nonprofits and charities. Many lamented the early iterations of the iPhone for not allowing fundraising applications due to iTunes Store’s stingy policies. Indeed, nonprofits were not even allowed to develop apps if any money were expected to change hands. Though […]
#SOCIALNETWORK: Are You Prepped For Rollout Of Facebook Graph Search?
Facebook’s Graph Search was announced a couple of weeks ago and it is being rolled out through the Facebook0sphere through February. Though many wondered if Facebook were challenging Google, the fact is Facebook is trying to rejigger how you can access information within Facebook, not how you wend your way through the tubes of the internet. […]
#TECH: Microsoft Surfaces To Shake Up Tablet Market & Challenge iPad…Someday.
Full disclosure: We at MKCREATIVEmedia are pretty Apple-centric, even though we are aware that many of our readers are using Microsoft products to access the blog. So when we heard that Microsoft want to enter the tablet market, we thought, “well, that’s about two years too late.” But we also wanted to see how Microsoft […]
#Tech: CES 2012 Shows Off The Flat Entertainment Coming Post-Recession
Each mid-January, while much of the country is struggling to get through wintery weather and get kids back on a school-day schedule, the brash, bold, and bright world of near-future technology is shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Not the back end of the financial crisis/Great Recession, not the fact […]
#Fundraising: How To Apply For A Grant From Intel
This week in our ongoing periodic series on grant providers and how to apply for their support, we look at the tech company that helps build Microsoft and Apple computers: Intel. The corporation is best known for its processors and motherboards and for its 5-note jingle – but its stand on corporate social responsibility is truly impressive. […]
#Fundraising: How To Apply For Grants From The Gates Foundation
Two weeks ago we pointed out that Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, has somewhat adjusted Apple’s position on philanthropic efforts – at least those of its employees. In our ongoing series on helping our readers find sources of grants and apply for them, we turn to the Gates Foundation, founded by Microsoft’s previous CEO, Bill […]
#Fundraising: How To Apply For A Grant From Apple (Sort Of)
This story is the first in a periodic series of research projects to give you the quickest onramp to begin developing programs and relationships with some major foundations. We begin with the most valuable company in the world, whose recently deceased CEO inspired and infuriated many millions. The passing of Steve Jobs last week has […]
#Social Networks: Google+ vs. Facebook – Let The Debates Begin!
If you’re a social-networks maven, you’ve probably heard a lot, perhaps even too much, about the exclusive/VIP/by-invite-only launch of Google+. As noted earlier, I am not on that A-List (either), but many smart people not on that list have already begun to handicap the fight between Google+ and Facebook. My goal is simply to introduce some […]
#Tech: Collaboration Tools To Navigate The Cloud
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Everyone in the tech and communications worlds is talking about ‘The Cloud.’ And so have we. The concept might seem new, but really it’s the term, not the technology, that’s new. But even as we send our entertainment, files, and photos to iCloud, Dropbox, and Flickr (etc.), we might feel like the cloud provides a […]
Social Networking: Will Microsoft Purchase of Skype Change Everything?
Earlier this week, Microsoft nipped ahead of a number of suitors to buy voice-over-internet service Skype for $8.5 billion. That was double or more what competitors like Google and Facebook were offering. Since the purchase (not finalized as of our posting), analysts of the investor and technology stripes have been debating the meaning of the […]
The Latest Technologies for Senior Living @ CES 2011
Steve Gurney’s “Everyone is Aging” blog has some great reviews of the latest technologies aimed at seniors at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. His focus is on healthcare and senior living solutions, in particular. Watch the video to find out more:
#Tech: Consumer Electronics in 2011 – Tablets, Pads, Phones
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the starting line for a myriad of technologies over the last forty three years, some of which have, of course, failed to make inroads in the consumer electronics market (My car still doesn’t fly). All the chatter this year seems to be on the fact – the […]
#DESIGN: NASDAQ – Communications Materials
The Challenge: NASDAQ approached MKCREATIVE and asked for help generating a large number of fact sheets to very exacting brand and design standards. These fact sheets are used to market the client’s products and services to it’s own clients and to its strategic partners. Our Solution: MKCREATIVE assigned a small team to develop and institute […]
#Tech: Microsoft Will Join The Cloud With Office 365
Microsoft recently released Office 2011 for the Mac, built on the materials added to Office 2010 for the PC. Two notable changes were that the old Entourage program that acted as the calendar/email/address book feature has been replaced by a more robust and truer-to-the-original Outlook, and the opportunity to record macros has been returned. Mac […]
Web Browsers Open Up The Web To Us (And Open Us To The Web)
Ever since the invention of Lynx in the early 1990s to give at least a few folks access to the internet, we have been growing ever more comfortable with accessing information, buying products, and sharing ourselves with our Facebook Friends. We are aware to some degree that the websites we visit place ‘cookies’ on our […]
Net Neutrality Loses (First?) Appeal
The MKCREATIVE blog has posted on issues of net neutrality, network infrastructures, and the impending Google gigabit network for some fortunate community in these United States. So our antennae were twitching as the decision/appeal concerning the FCC’s statute of ‘net neutrality.’ And the court has decided that the FCC’s statutes are unconstitutional. Here is a […]