One of the first ‘Train the Trainer’ sessions I ever undertook started with us being asked to make a hot drink for a fellow participant. However, we were told we could only ask what what was required once – and after that, we could not ask for any further information. The idea, of course, was to show…
The battle by P&O Australia to overcome the bad publicity that’s marred the introduction of the Pacific Aria and the Pacific Eden continues – but as it does, there are continuing complaints by some unhappy passengers. The level of complaints appears to be dying off – although there are still a number of reports on…
One of the most common issues I face when teaching journalism students – especially those from Asian backgrounds – is the need for attribution. “You can’t just say ‘The 12th National Party Congress is a congress of solidarity, democracy, discipline and renovation, demonstrating its resolve to increase comprehensive and synchronous reforms while promoting the country’s…
The turtle is gone, but his spirit lives on. In Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem lake, there lived a Giant Yangtze softshell turtle – one of only four known to still be alive. It was the symbol of Vietnam’s independence, and was revered as sacred by many. I say was, because it died this week, just as…
It’s a cliche that we’ve all heard – PRIOR PREPARATION PREVENTS POOR PERFORMANCE – but just because it’s a cliche doesn’t mean it is untrue. Over the years, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of successful presentations that resulted from the presenter ‘winging it.’ Oh, we have all seen cases…
I have spent a large part of the past week without access to my usual sources of media – and it’s been an interesting experience. I am on holidays, currently in Vietnam and reliant on my smartphone for access to news. Because days are so full and tiring, I have been largely restricted to Facebook.…
I was always such a movie buff – as a kid, I clearly remember the time spent at the Randwick Odeon, or the Randwick Ritz, watching films like Doctor Who and the Daleks, and later Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 (two Doctor Who movies that are clearly ‘non canon’ for Whovians – but which, as a kid, I thoroughly enjoyed.)…
Today should see the publication of the third episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Unfortunately, I’m on holidays in Singapore and Vietnam over the next three weeks – and my recording equipment didn’t even survive the…
This week’s training tip is on how to get your ideas to sink in … If you wish to get an idea across to an audience, you can do worse than adopt the ‘Tell Them, Tell Them, Tell Them’ mantra. Lewis Carroll, in ‘Hunting For The Snark’, wrote “What I tell you three times is…
I’ve been in Radio long enough to remember the slow-motion train-crash that was AM Stereo – and I have to say, DAB or Digital Audio Broadcasting shows all the signs of being deja vu all over again. To explain: for 50 years, Australian broadcast radio was all AM, or Amplitude Modulation. Stations had whopping great…
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