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“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.” —Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience

Watchout specialist for large projected meeting sets and impressive presentations. At the heart of presentations, the look is all important, to you and your audience. Prism-AV's  specialised Ultrawidescreen studio has Graphics, Sound and Video studio facilities. Making a truly memorable experiences. Prism-AV have been providing edge blend Dataton Watchout projection systems since 2000 making them one of the earliest adopters.

26 January 2007 International visitors to the BadVibes web site (www.sound101.org) — a research project from the University of Salford — listened to sounds such as a dentist's drill, fingernails scraping down a blackboard and aircraft flying past, before rating them in terms of their unpleasantness. Although fingernails scraping down a blackboard is said to be the worst sound by many people, the actual recording of this sound only came 16th out of 34 sounds auditioned.

PowerPoint Usability: Q&A with Don Norman, Ph.D., usability expert and author What does one of the world's leading authorities on usability say about PowerPoint? As cofounder of the Neilsen Norman Group and author of the classic The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman is a strong advocate of user-centered design and simplicity. Surprisingly, Norman disagrees with PowerPoint's most vocal critic, information design guru Edward Tufte.

It is a somewhat strange thought, but a sample of fear sweat on your desk could improve your professional performance. The stimulating effect was recently discovered in research at the Rice University in Houston, USA. For this occasion, researchers made an army of volunteers watch a neutral documentary and a horror movie. During watching, the volunteers held a dot of cotton under their arm to collect some sweat. Next, other test persons got one of those dots of cotton fixed under their nose during a test with word games on a computer. The results?

ScienceDaily (July 23, 2009) — Feeling stressed? Then try savoring the scent of lemon, mango, lavender, or other fragrant plants. Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific evidence that inhaling certain fragrances alter gene activity and blood chemistry in ways that can reduce stress levels.

It seems like webcasts at conferences are popping up all over the place.  I believe that webcasts are going to become an important virtual component of face 2 face meetings in the future. 

The PSA is the trade association for companies and individuals involved in the live event production industry. Our aim is to represent, improve, educate and develop the business of technical production for live events. This is achieved by pooling the knowledge of the entire industry to create a single voice for the industry and a central resource for its members. The issues that we deal with are those that affect the whole industry. The solutions we find are there for the whole industry. This can only be achieved with the help of the whole industry.

"Mijn Blokje" (My Brick) is a new initiative that provides you with personalized Lego(r) for different purposes. Albeit for gifts, educational purposes (round table, info sessions, workshops, ...), or as nametags for meetings, we engrave Lego (r) completely for your own purpose and goals. We offer different items such as magnets, keychains, bricks engraved with names, job titles, texts, ...