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Click here for detailed instructions to export QuickTime video for web streaming services.

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Clutter really is something that can be ignored. Finding ways to cut through that clutter is difficult because as soon as you get something that reaches people right now, next month it just becomes part of the normal, routine, and falls into the background once again. Radio is great example of how we tend to deal with clutter - ignoring the commercials and only listening to the music or talk

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I believe narrowcasting is going to be the next big wave of advertising. As more and more people are connecting to the internet and we move deeper into the DVR/TiVo age, broadcast commercials are becoming less and less relevant. I know that narrowcast advertising does tend to work better on me. Narrowcasting on the internet would be like receiving Field&Stream or the Cabela's catalogue. Throw

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Columns written by any political analyst will have a bias toward conservatism or liberalism. As we all know, in the case of Bill O'Reilly that tends to be a more conservative-based opinion. FOX has done an amazing job of marketing O'Reilly as a journalist, though I believe that most people can see him for what he really is - an editorialist. I would place his work in the opinion section of any

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I have chosen to use the article US Urges China to Use Restraint in Tibet as an example of bias in reporting. With a story such as this, bias is inherently written in to the story. This is due to China's press policies. As the reporter cannot present both sides of the issue to the public, the article is one-sided although it appears the Dali Lama is willing to accept Chinese sovereignty over

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Visual repetition in any type of communication one is putting together is highly important. As the webmaster for my campus I have made it a point to keep a consistent format on each of the pages so that people can come to identify the site from any of the pages as part of the lhcfishers.com domain. Another place I take care to keep a consistent style is in video editing. As an audio/visual

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Chapters 12 and 13 both focus on the visual aspects of writing reports from graphics implementation and design to the layout of the document itself. The goal is to create a document that draws people in and clearly shows the information you're presenting. I have often received emails where the authors forget about paragraphs or don't add an extra line in between their paragraphs. Each time I

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Although Ganlai isn't a "Web 2.0" supporter, I like the direction he takes when dealing with the original article. Big Media was "losing" to these new, user-generated media outlets and it can be argued that they still are. But I believe that Big Media is beginning to take advantage of the Web 2.0 culture. How many sports writers now have dedicated blogs following a favorite team in the NFL,

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It seems the author of the Web 2.0 article has a very negative view of the pervasiveness of the web in our lives. He takes the stance that it's just too easy to publish ourselves online and that as a culture we are becoming more and more self-focused as we can see what we have written, filmed and posted online. There is a basis for his argument that this waters down our culture by taking away

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Like Sarah, this class is turning out to be completely different than I expected. I was expecting the class to be cut, dry, and about how to write the boring memos that I'm sure we've all read. I like that the expected work from us is supposed to be concise and get to the point right away. Some of the papers I reviewed for classmates in my ecology lab were very long and drawn out. Much of the

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Simplify your sentences. Use an active voice. Chose the best vocabulary for your communication. Think of your audience as you're writing your communication. This summarizes chapter 8. I love this chapter because it gives me some basic guidelines and tips for creating an active voice. Guideline 3 details some of the reasons to use the active voice over the passive voice, though it does go on

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Extending on from my last post, I think that keeping the information concise and useful for the reader really is half the battle. The other half, I think is what Mark has mentioned. Organize the material you present in a way so that your reader can quickly understand and use this information. I like Mark's mention of visual elements to help the reader better understand the information

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Conducting reader centered research is such a different way of thinking and working from any research conducted before. This 'new' process seems more critical of the resources that are found or used as it's focus must be beneficial to the reader. One mistake I come across in the scientific community is that they present massive amounts of data and let that be the persuasive voice of the paper.

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Seth made a great point about the ineffective use of graphics within text. . How many documents have we read where the graphic either had no context or even bearing on the subject? It is distracting and ineffective.

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Guideline 2: Organize around your readers tasksThis portion of Chapter 4 is something that I will need to focus on as I create my own set of instructions for the Tech team at my church. What tasks are they performing? What is the “best way” to go about this? How can I streamline the process of set-up? But most importantly, how do I organize all this information so that it is easily accessible

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Logos is a fact-based form of persuasion. Its’ strength lies in reasoning and hopefully leading the reader to agree with the author and making the ‘right’ decision. Ethos rhetoric focuses on the self or individual. A common example of Ethos would be celebrity endorsements of products. Pathos is an emotion driven form of persuasion where the author hopes to draw the desired response from the

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As the tech team leader at my church I've had to read and try to understand directions given to us by the "main campus" guys.  They write directions and instructions the opposite of the way described in Chapter 23.  Despite being a veteran of live audio and video production for churches, I couldn't understand the information or organization presented in the set of directions given.  After my

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Although I'm an environmental science major, I've been interested in audio and video production.   For years I haven't really been able to understand or use compressors for live audio production and hopefully by going through and analyzing the user manual for one, or comparing both the compression units I have available for use.I have recently been involved in video production working on

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Take a world-centric view.  For my environmental assessment class we have been discussing this for the past week.  How do we attack and environmental issues while using a holistic world view?  Chapter 3 in the text is asking the same question, only employing it for the sake of writing.  Thinking and working in this manner is something that we all need practice in.  It's hard.  It's not normal,

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English and writing have never been my strongest areas, though I feel that I can accomplish the task well as it relates to scientific papers.  I attended a very small high school and endured three years of english instruction from the same teacher.  Because of that experience coupled with her style of grading, I haven’t been interested in english or literature classes throughout my college and

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Understanding how to convey ideas in a straightforward, succinct manner and applying that knowledge is vital in today’s world.  Transitioning to an active voice is going to take effort as all the papers I have composed for that last few terms have emphasized a passive voice so that the emphasis is placed on the scientific research and findings.  It will be a welcome challenge to re-learn the

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I know that there have been a lot of changes recently with the LHC main web site down, the launching of lhcfishers.com, and the campus blog changing hands from blogger to wordpress. Let me quickly run through what is happening and what isn't.1. Campus website: http://lhcfishers.com Here you'll find the latest information on what's happening at Fisher's Landing. I'll be checking this blog

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Well, not exactly.Though I was recently in a rather lengthy conversation recently about being a geek. Now don't get me wrong, I am one - to a degree. Technology fascinates me and I have to ask, is that such a crime?What this is really leading up to is the fact that my blog page is changing... again... I know. Now that you've just started getting used to the whole "fisherstechguy.blogspot.com"

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Here's a little promo I've put together for the upcoming Guys' Night at LHC with Pastor Seth McRae. I'm still playing around with the Blue and Green Screen effects in Final Cut.

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