Premier Outlining with Tinderbox

I’m giving a five hour web-writing training session for a corporate client this week. I don’t think I could plan my talk as effectively without Tinderbox.

This multifaceted application is, amongst other things, a phenomenal outlining tool. Just to give you a hint of its capabilities here’s a slide of my (hotchpotch of) notes.

Tinderbox helps me to shuffle my thoughts around, stores the image clips I’m using in my Keynote to illustrate my talk, and happily handles all the urls I need quick access to. I’m workout what I’m going to say and how I’m going to say it before building my Keynote presentation. Because Tinderbox is so light and adaptable, all the hard work is done here figuring out the content of my talk before I fire up my presentation software and craft my slides.

I could do this on paper –possibly. But it would take so much longer.

The eclectic work I do as a copywriter, journalist and translator always benefits from this tool. It’s one of the reasons I love the Mac platform.

Email Intelligence at Stockholm’s Påhlmans Handelsinstitut

I’ve just agreed to run a two-day training session for Påhlmans Handelsinstitut (Hagagatan 25B) here in Stockholm in October.

Email Intelligence is a 2 x 3 hour training session specifically aimed at Swedish business people who have to communicate by email in English as an integral part of their daily work.

The course is scheduled for October 28/29 at 13:00-16:00. Talk to Påhlmans Handelsinstitut if you’re interesting in taking the course.

For a course description in Swedish…

Using the MLA at IEG Södermalm

I gave a one hour training session to staff at IEG Södermalm this morning on how to use the MLA Style Guide in teaching. The school’s management team is committed to promoting an atmosphere of intellectual rigour and creating ways in which to prepare students for university and beyond.

I made the accompanying slideshow available after the session on Slideshare so staff could take it and develop it for use in the classroom. If you want the 16 page handout that goes with the slideshow, you’re welcome to email me.

NB! A word of warning about the slides. What looks lovely on a Mac using Keynote doesn’t translate particularly well to Powerpoint.

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