Microsoft PowerPoint: Enemy of the State?

Ever since its introduction to the business industry in 1984, Microsoft PowerPoint has been a staple present in the boardrooms of the business, academic, and military world. A slideware computer program that easily generates charts, graphs, and bullet points, presenting research and data in an easy format revolutionized the time spent on data-driven presentations. But while some praise the invention of the software, there are those who disagree as well. In fact, prominent U.S. generals and professors think PowerPoint is an evil entity.

According to Edward R. Tufte, a political science professor at Yale University who wrote an article on Wired.com, “PowerPoint is Evil,” says the Microsoft presentation software induces stupidity, turns everyone into bores, waste time, and degrades the quality and credibility of communication. Gen. James N. Mattis, commander of the Joint Force in the Marine Corps who was interviewed for a New York Times article, “We Have Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint” says the slideware makes us stupid.

The argument presented in these two articles is that PowerPoint creates the illusion of understanding and control when there really isn’t. By oversimplifying interconnected data, statistics and conclusion in simple bullet points, the complexity or the significance of the issue being presented is not getting through as important, vital, priority number one.

Commanders in the New York Times article believe that not only are vital sources being left out to simplify the presentation report, but by using PowerPoint as information training tutorials is stifling critical thinking and decision making. Instead of producing an environment that encourages thought provoking group discussions, PowerPoint presentation brings a numbing sensation.

“In a business setting, a PowerPoint slide typically shows 40 words, which is about eight seconds’ worth of silent reading material. With so little information per slide, many, many slides are needed. Audiences consequently endure a relentless sequence, one damn slide after another,” Tufte says.

But can a software program be the blame? Is a comprehensive report with all the critical data and statistics gathered any more effective than a PowerPoint presentation? Is relentless sequence of reports any more cognitively stimulating than a relentless sequence of PowerPoint slides?

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KnowledgeCity’s Affiliate Program: Open for Business

KnowledgeCity’s affiliate program is up and running and is waiting for you to become a part of its team! After much fine tuning, here are some new details for new and future affiliates of KnowledgeCity:

Quality of project/service
For those unaware of what our company is all about, KnowledgeCity is an educational site for students, business and career professionals that offer online training tutorials on the latest computer software (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, Dreamweaver) and business management training tutorials that pertains to the educational and business environment.

How the affiliate program works
For every sign up, KnowledgeCity will send out a letter with all the necessary information about the program, including the banners and text links. The links given will provide the affiliates with the cookie that is needed to track all their referrals, which would last about a month.

Revenue sharing levels
Affiliates would be compensated residually. For every referral sign-up brought in by an affiliate, he/she will receive in return 35% of the $29 KnowledgeCity charges every month for unlimited access to our entire tutorial database.

Payment/Tracking Reliability
Payout will be on a monthly basis, usually after 30 days. We also offer easy accessibility to your account with the possibility of link exchange.

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Tools Needed for Accounting Majors

To be an accountant means to provide organization, summarization, and interpretation of financial information for companies. College students who wish to play a critical role within a business organization as an accountant needs to be computer literate and be thoroughly knowledgeable in business mathematics.

Computer literacy is a necessity for an accountant’s performance. Being able to understand the basic functions, hardware, software, and operating system commands is immensely important for most operations are performed on a computer setting. Although most college students these days are fully aware of a computer’s capability, there are computer literacy training tutorials for accounting majors who went back to school later on in life when computers were not the prevalent tool in the work or academic force.

Basic mathematics wouldn’t just do in terms for an accountant. Since accounting is all about mathematics in a business environment, business mathematics is a separate entity than regular math taught in academia. Online training tutorials are available to learn more on what mathematical applications pertain in a business context.

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Necessary Online Training Tutorials Needed for Environmentalists

Advocates for the protection of Earth’s natural environment from destruction or pollution understands more than ever the importance of their work is to humanity, for the theory of earth’s natural resources deteriorating would bring about catastrophic destructions seems to have some relevance with so much natural disasters occurring around the world.

China’s latest earthquake that measured 6.9 in magnitude killed 1,100 people up to date; Iceland’s volcano that recently came to life is interrupting European air traffic with its ashes, to U.S.’s own recent 7.2 Mexicali earthquake that was felt across Southern California with more than 500 aftershocks.

Understanding presentation skills and being up-to-date with the latest environmental issues is necessary, environmentalists understands the importance of PowerPoint training tutorials and environmental online training tutorials.

• PowerPoint presentation tutorials: Presentation is a big aspect for environmentalists to bring forth their research to the public at large. Through cutting technology and sophisticated features coming out each year in newer editions, Microsoft PowerPoint provides environmentalists with a powerful tool to present their work in a visual aspect.

• Environmental job training tutorials: Through environmental video tutorials, environmentalists are able to be informed of the latest research, data, statistics, concepts and other events happening in their prospective field.

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The Importance of Microsoft Outlook & Administrative Assistant

Different branches and departments for any company or corporation must work together as one in order for a business to perform and operate smoothly and effectively. No department is less important than the other for every part has a function. But even so, there is one particular department in any given business that is the backbone, or even its lifeblood that keeps the company alive and that is the administrative department.

The administrative department to any large institution is the organizational unit that performs management activities benefiting the entire organization. To rank the importance of an administration branch in a business environment, is CEO and executives’ favored department. And as administrative personnel are favored friends to upper management, so are Microsoft Outlook and administrative assistant online video training tutorials for an administration team.

Microsoft Outlook, a comprehensive time and information manager, is the preferred software for administrative personnel to provide assistance with daily updates/up keeps important documents, contact lists, while safely and effectively sharing the information to any inner personnel and to clients. This tool helps administers:

• Easily manage daily priorities
• Connect globally
• Share the information with anyone, anywhere
• Control the data in a safe system
• Prevent losing work, data
• Provide instant relevant information to anyone

This crucial software application offers more features each year with new editions from Microsoft to simplify the daily lives of administrators. Online training tutorials are available to view the different features offered in Outlook.

Online administrative assistant video training tutorials is another vital tool that provides information, data, and organizational skills necessary for successful administrators. Through various online video tutorials, administrative assistants will be able to:

• Manage time more effectively
• Handle interruptions and be more flexible
• Plan proficiently
• Organize paperwork conclusively
• Communicate with colleagues/upper management in the right manner
• Understand office politics/diplomacy
• Handle stressful situations
• Refine writing capability

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Key Training Tutorials Needed for Market Research Analysts

Career professionals vying for Data/Market Research Analyst positions should have data entry, spreadsheet creation, and database maintenance skills before going in for a job interview because most businesses feeling the financial strain due to the effects of a tumultuous economy, probably will not hire a new hire with limited skills set. They need new hires to be able to contribute immediately to the company, especially during economic hardship.

Entry level and junior data/market research professionals should refresh their knowledge or learn these three essential software programs for their field either through courses or online training tutorials before applying.

Microsoft Access: Designed specifically to simplify and control complex data tasks, research analysts can create and update database information through Access. Access help users effectively track, report, and share information in a manageable environment. With a pre-built library tracking application of database solutions with Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, researchers does not need deep database or programming skills.

Microsoft Excel: Another useful application is the Excel software, a powerful tool that helps create spreadsheets and formulas, practice data entry, format data, communicate and manage information etc. Excel simplifies creating professional-looking reports and charts.

Business Word Processing: Research, information gathering, light administrative task is also a big part of a data analyst’s job description. That means researchers should also know how to email, merge emails, design newsletters, edit/proofread professional documents, and reports. To learn or brush up on these skills, there are online video tutorials on Business Word Processing that touches on all of the tasks listed above.

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Microsoft Excel Macro Online Training Tutorial

Microsoft Excel, software that analyzes information that provides businesses with easy means of data exchange and helps make informed decisions, is one of the most asked KnowledgeCity software training tutorials by users. And out of the many online training tutorials asked on features in this program is the “Macro” function.

This built-in feature enables users to record repetitive actions for easy usage on different cells and worksheets. It’s fairly easy to utilize and useful for business professionals to save time filling out the same information on new spreadsheets.

To create a macro, here are few simple steps:

1. First, establish the workbook (file) for the spreadsheet that is going to be recorded under by clicking on the Tools tab on top of the toolbar. Find Macro then select Record New Macro.

2. When the dialogue box appears, fill in: the name of the file, letter to the shortcut key (optional) (pressing the Ctrl + the key letter will run the macro automatically on different spreadsheets), and where you want to store your workbook in (usually the workbook is the one in progress or can be saved under a personal macro workbook).

3. Write in the description for the macro made.

When finished, click the Ok button and a small macro recording box will appear to show recording is in session. After the box shows, everything that is done on the workbook is being recorded. Manually go through functions that macro needs to recreate (i.e. adding/deleting columns). To stop recording when finished, click on the blue button of the recording box and the workbook is ready to use.

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Adobe Suite CS5 Online Training Tutorials Coming Soon

As Adobe is preparing to release Creative Suite 5 (CS5) edition into the market at the end of May, KnowledgeCity is also preparing software training tutorials for the newest web/publishing design tools featured on the suite’s software programs, such as:

• Photoshop CS5 Extended
• Illustrator CS5
• InDesign CS5
• Flash Professional CS5
• Dreamweaver CS5

With knowledgeable professors already lined up for online training tutorials, graphic designers, web designers, print production teams, animators, and photographers can expect exciting and informative online video training tutorials on new, improved and enhanced features on Photoshop CS5 Extended like:

• The new painting effect where natural, realistic painting can be achieved through the Mixer Brush

• Filling up the space left behind with the removal of an image or an object through Content-Aware Fill

• Wrapping, stretching graphic elements to create a new image through Puppet Wrap

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Academia and Business Organizations Benefit from KnowledgeCity

Although still young, different sectors of the academic and business industries are starting to take notice of KnowledgeCity. There is no deniability of the importance of how information technology (IT) is to a modern organization that relies heavily on the use of electronic computers, computer software for daily productivity and smooth operation.

As IT corporations continuously invent, reinvent, and refine their software products and services, to be up-to-date with all computer applications is nearly impossible for the public at large to learn, who is always on the run with everyday living. Understanding this gap, KnowledgeCity hits the ground running finding qualified professors to teach the necessary tools needed for all market industries such as:

Computer Science, Research Departments—Research industries that rely heavily on database programs to convert, store, protect, transmit, and securely retrieve information can rely on software training tutorials on the latest software applications on Excel, Access, and Outlook.

Professional photographers, web designers, graphic designers—There is nobody more excited when the newest version of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver is released than a visual artist. But even the most skilled computer-literate can have trouble understanding a function or a feature without learning about it first.

Publishing Industry—Word, InDesign software applications are the lifeblood for the publishing world. To understand, utilize, and implant all the features offered by the program is essential for a successful production of its magazines, newspapers, books etc.

Real Estate, Accounting, Human Resource Market—Business management training tutorials is essential to implement successful concepts and strategies to improve interpersonal relationship between the company and its staff for the success of its business.

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Coming Soon to You: KnowledgeCity’s Affiliate Program

Good news everybody! Lovers of KnowledgeCity…you now have a chance to be a part of the team through our newly conceived affiliate program. Although the plan is still in the early stages of development, it will soon be up and running waiting for your participation!

For those unfamiliar with the concept, an affiliate marketing program is a cooperative effort between the merchant (that would be us) and the affiliates (that would be you). For every visitor and customer provided to our website, KnowledgeCity’s affiliates will be paid handsomely, a total win win situation for both parties!

KnowledgeCity’s online training tutorials will have a chance to broaden its services to more potential customers through our niche market, while affiliates, with little to no effort, have a chance to make a lot of money just by referring people over. Through mutual respect and cooperation, let’s make a lot of money! More information coming soon…

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KnowledgeCity’s Management Tutorial: The Four Functions of Management

Veteran and novice managers, look no further than KnowledgeCity for core infrastructure management tutorials on key issues facing today’s business administrations large and small. Our business management tutorials cover: management theories, finding and developing leaders, measurement and improvement on customer and employee relations, hiring and training employees, developing workplace teams and so much more.

One of the business management tutorials that KnowledgeCity offers business administrations is the Four Functions of Management. Through these business management training tutorials, administrators will learn the four core functions of business management:

Plan: The first stage to any administration team is evaluating and planning the business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Planning is the core function of management concept to attain the goals and objectives put forth by the company.

Organization: The determination of the internal structure, relationship establishment, and all allocation of resources would be set in the second concept of management, which is organization. The formation of the infrastructure is needed to carry out the plans implemented in order to direct the business in the desired course.

Direct: After all the internal organization have been set, management should then be able to oversee and give direction to the staff’s behavior, activities, and production that would ultimately affect the company’s objective. Because all staff members should perform at their maximum capacities, management needs to provide directions well.

Control: The business management team must be able to control the production and the direction of the company at large, whether if it’s doing well or not. By overseeing the actual performance of the entire company and staff, the management team can decide what plans and rules need to be changed in order to reach its goal.

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Check Out KnowledgeCity’s Ad Today!

Ladies and gentlemen, the long awaited event has arrived. KnowledgeCity’s national ad campaign is out today! And with this nationwide ad campaign, the entire country will know who we are and what KnowledgeCity is all about. That we are an online video tutorial company dedicated to bring academic students, working professionals with the latest relevant software and business tutorials for career development and advancement.

Not only will the ad inform the public about KnowledgeCity’s goals to the business professionals, but they will also be informed of the company’s large selection of computer software and business courses, such as word processor, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Access 2007, career assessment tutorials and much more.

Make sure to catch us on YouTube in case you miss the commercial! Enjoy everyone…

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KnowledgeCity Loves TGIF!

Thank god it’s Friday! For a job well done, KnowledgeCity is going to award itself with a great Easter weekend. A lot of work got done this week. Our online software training tutorial company is adding the last finishing touches to its nationwide ad campaign due out within the next two weeks.

We had to make sure the ad mentioned key points that are essential, such as:

The company’s mission statement: KnowledgeCity’s goal is to provide academic students, business professionals with detailed, well-informed online video tutorials on the latest computer software and career development business courses.

What to expect from our site: Visitors can expect video training on the latest computer software, like: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe InDesign, Dreamweaver etc.

Its great offer: Not only does KnowledgeCity offer informative software, business courses crucial for the business and academic environment, but the service is free for anyone interested for thirty days. That’s a whole month of unlimited access to our company’s entire online video tutorials for free!

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KnowledgeCity New Look

As it’s a new year and a new spring, KnowledgeCity has decided to go under a new makeover. Coming soon to near you is the newer, better homepage-with a fresher look, simplified user-ability with newly added online video tutorials on the latest computer software programs, career and business management online courses.

With more videos added, such as Window 7 video tutorial, the latest operating system by Microsoft; Computer Literacy, a hands-on introduction to using microcomputer for personal and academic use; tutorial for first-time home buyers, a nine-step demonstration for homebuyers acquiring property-users will definitely get more for their money.

Come visit us right now for more information. See you there!

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