Weekly Round Up
Coaching in the news
Is Coaching the New Management? Steve Bruce at The HR Daily Advisor explores how managers are using coaching as a tool to manage employee performance, motivation and participation.
Coaches Wanted in the Game of Life, by Eve Tahmincioglu. (NY Times, Jan 13, 2008)
Found while surfing
Be sure to check out SlideShare.com. It's like YouTube for PowerPoint presentations. You can create and save a presentation there and then paste a little HTML code to your blog or website and voila! Your customers can view your presentation right on your page. And yes, it's FREE.
I was going to suggest that you check out The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging while you’re at SlideShare, but then I thought, “Duh!” Why not just grab the code and put it right here on the blog so you can see how SlideShare works? So here goes with a short slide presentation that outlines 25 different approaches to blogging, including tips on how many times per week to use a style, plus how buzz-worthy and how difficult each style is.
Chris Garrett's 5 Items Your Blog Sidebar Must Have will help you make sure your readers can find what they're looking for where they expect to find it (in the sidebar). (I've got 4 out of 5 in my sidebar – need to find a widget for my flagship content or update my pages section.)
I'm always looking for good quality, free images, so I was delighted to find Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web, by Wendy Boswell over at About.com.
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