The phone in my office rang. It was Frank Clegg, President of Microsoft Canada. Frank had just heard that my brother was very ill, and he wanted me to know that my place was to be with my family. His message was clear: go home. Microsoft will survive. My obligations would all be covered. In bold words, he told me that Microsoft cared. I was on a flight to see my brother that night. He passed away that same week. Now it’s ten years later and I still remember Frank’s voice — and I know he meant every word. The company cared.
 
Each year, we set aside a day — Valentine’s Day — to say we care. It’s kind of funny isn’t it?  Is a “caring” day really necessary, and is it effective? Do you feel more “cared” for when you receive a dozen roses at three times the price?  Do you feel any more appreciated waiting in line at your favourite restaurant all because other people are out caring too?  Stop the insanity! You can’t schedule caring, it just won’t work. You either care, or you don’t.
 
Now I realize I run the risk of being considered flaky when I bring up the notion of being a caring organization. After all, business is all about the profit and loss, right? It’s about creating shareholder value. Well, I don’t have to tell you that it’s the employees who are our real corporate value. I’ve read it, you’ve read it, and we all know it. So why is it that the number one reason employees leave is because they think we’ve stopped caring? They think they’re no longer valued or that their contributions are just not appreciated. Why is it you think you cared but your employees didn’t get it? What can you do about it? And do you even bother? This is the essence of my message this month.
I will be honest: caring is painful. It means making sacrifices, committing time you don’t have and putting the needs of your employees well in front of your own. Why are some companies so bent on caring? I think there are two main reasons. First, the law of reciprocity teaches us that people give back in kind what is given to them. You go the extra mile and they will be there for you. I may be an optimist, but I believe it’s true that employees want to be cared for and that they’ll give it back to you in spades. They will give many hours to your company, and they’ll go beyond their employee commitment if you go beyond yours. Caring organizations create employees who want to raise the bar.
 
I should warn you, though, that you can’t force reciprocity. It has to be natural, it has to be intentional, and it has to come from the heart. If people feel your caring is focused on personal gain, it won’t work. Sales professionals are notorious for calling up and inviting managers for lunch when there is a new sales opportunity on the rise. They don’t show up at any other time, but when there is an opportunity to be had, they’re right there. The best time to buy someone lunch is when they least expect it. That’s when you really show you care. Many managers are just as guilty; they give employees lots of attention when they think the employee is a flight risk or they need the employee to take on more responsibility. That’s not reciprocity, that’s manipulation and you will get caught. Caring organizations do thoughtful things without condition. They do things because it’s the right thing to do.
 
The second reason organizations choose to become caring organizations is because it is extremely expensive to replace great talent. The Workforce Consulting Group states that the cost of replacing an employee ranges from 42 percent to 244 percent of base salary, and this does not include the lost intellect that just left your building. 
 
So what can you do? First, put yourself in your employee’s shoes. If you were in their position, what might you want? A few years ago I was president of a struggling business. While cash flow was an immense struggle, we needed the undying commitment of our employees to survive. Here are some of the things we did:

• We created a relationship with a local counsellor for any employee who needed help. 
• We provided babysitting assistance for the spouse of any employee who was required to be out of town more than a week. 
• When needed, we reimbursed expenses immediately to ensure that no employee was ever inconvenienced.

Being a caring organization doesn’t mean you forget about the bottom line, it just means you think about the impact your actions will have on others. Since I was president, it was my role to make tough decisions about layoffs. I made those decisions, but I did it with dignity. We extended benefits, we provided career counselling and we looked closely at each person’s situation to ensure we always did the right thing.
 
When Valentines comes around, I will no doubt have flowers and chocolates for my wife because I really do care, but it’s when I show up that one day in June and I hand her a single rose then she (and I) will know how much I really do care. Now, what are you going to do?

I remember standing on stage, speaking to 300 people on how difficult it is to demonstrate our hidden value.  My point was most people don’t trust what they can’t see and for us to prove our worth we have to make it visible.  I really thought I had this group convinced when one person stood up and said, “Curt, if people don’t trust what they can’t see, why does three quarters of the world believe in God?” Well, I will tell you I had a divine intervention; I looked back and said, “I think God has a better sales team!”

Think about it. There are two times in your life you adopt religion: first, you are cultured through those you trust, or second, you come to a point in your life (i.e. crisis) where you see how life would be different with God in it.  It’s now five years later and I still believe that this is one of the most powerful lessons I’ve learned, and I believe this simple lesson is the foundation on which powerful employee relationships are built. Employees need to see how their life will be different with you, the employer, in it and they have to see how the company’s life is different with them in it.  Employees want to appreciate what they do, and they absolutely need to know that what they do is appreciated.  So how can you make their contribution visible?  I say take the time to show them the numbers.  Let them see, first hand, how they make a difference.

When I was President of ExecuTrain Canada, I made a decision that every employee should be invited to review our corporate financial statements and learn the basics of how their involvement impacted our performance.  What happened was that we started to see employees take ownership for managing their business and making great decisions.  Even though our business was struggling, they could see how their commitment and efforts were moving us in the right direction.  For example, when the employees saw the huge amount of money we had tied up in accounts receivable, everyone made a commitment to collect the money that was rightfully ours.  Every week we reviewed the numbers, we strategized new ideas, and the employees got further excited about the difference their contribution was making.

Our business was in very bad shape. We were trying to fend off bankruptcy. But because the employees could see how their work was making a difference, we were able to keep them focused and motivated on the task at hand —  surviving.  By letting your employees see under the hood and truly understand the challenges and opportunities of the business, you can also improve morale.  When employees are not given access to information they tend to fill in the blanks on their own.  Their thinking can often be very different from reality.  This can result in employees distrusting senior management and, more importantly, distrusting what is being communicated to them.  In fact, according to a study by Discovery Surveys, just 53 percent of employees believe the information they receive from senior management.

So let me ask you, are your employees invited to participate in a financial review?  Do they understand where and how their contribution impacts the business?  Are they empowered to suggest ideas that could help to reshape the business?  I am always surprised by how many businesses keep financial performance a secret.

Stephen Semple, president of Thinc Strategies, a Toronto based management consulting firm says that employees today want to be tied to clear actionable results.  He also says employers need to minimize performance review surprises by communicating clear expectations throughout the year.  He says that surprising employees during their performance review is a great way to lose trust and deflate morale.  He wholeheartedly believes tying performance back to financial or objective business indicators is the best way to open communication.
At ExecuTrain I created a very simple one-page report that allowed our management team to see the basic business indicators all in one view.  The report contained more than just numbers. It looked at financial performance, customer metrics, employee satisfaction, business process and investments in R&D.  It contained all of the indicators against which our business performance was measured.

This month, take the time to educate your team on the numbers.  Show them clearly how they can make a difference in the business.  Create a one page scorecard that shows them these numbers.  In the end there are no surprises, and you may just be pleasantly surprised to find your employees showing more ownership and taking more responsibility.

Relax… it’s just an expression! I wouldn’t really do it to my baby!!

You got to admit that calling your baby ugly would be a pretty darn tough thing to do. After all this would be the epitome of personal slander, wouldn’t it? I say this because sometimes the best thing you can do is take a good long hard look at yourself and call your own bluff.

I do a ton of executive coaching (business and career) and my favourite question is.. now that you know what you know would you hire you? You may be surprised how many people say no. If you are one of them it’s time to call that baby ugly and rapidly change.

Many things inspired this blog (including my own self reflection) but today was the last straw. I met an executive who has struggled for over 10 years and they can’t understand why. To me, as an outsider, the answer was pretty obvious – they needed to step back, swallow their pride and re-launch. While I hate suggesting this to a once successful executive I have to ask which is worse.. calling the baby ugly or letting the person drown? I bet if you think about it you can come up with many examples where companies (or people) held onto a failing proposition for too long and the results were devastating. We all have personal attachment to what is ours but lets not let that blind our judgement.

So, is it time to call your baby ugly? Is your business struggling because of your leadership? Is your career search stalled because of your lack of effort? Are your skills/product obsolete for today’s active market? These are tough questions to swallow but they could be real life savers for you! A favourite book when I was growing up was “That was then.. this is now.” It was about the pain of admitting things had changed and making the tough decisions to right it all. Remember: what was king yesterday might not cut it tomorrow. Companies fail because they don’t get it, just make sure that you don’t too.

This month, have the guts to sit down and ask the question that none of us want to hear… Is my baby ugly? I guarantee whether you like the answer or not it will put you on the path to a brighter future. You can blame me if you wish but I bet some day you just might be writing to say a big thanks!

A-Teem & Guerilla Milk presents…
FINAL FRIDAYS With Headkrack & His Superfriends

Featuring Performances By
Headkrack
Diabolical Fancy feat Picnic
Bodega Brovas feat Travii & Keynote
& Boondox featuring Damascus

Go to Format > Advanced > Define Text for Current Master or Define Text for All Masters. The first one will change it for the current master, and the second will change it for all new text boxes.

¿Cuantas veces te has tenido que conformar con tener que hacer una presentación con PDF porque no tenías el original a mano, o no podías abrirlo?, yo personalmente más de una vez. El PDF esta bien, pero si lo que queremos es quedar ya de puta madre lo que necesitamos son transacciones y efectos awesome, Impres!ve, original nombre, esta para eso. Se trata de un proyecto que originalmente se llamaba Keyjnote, y que trataba de imitar los efectos fundamentales de las famosas presentaciones Keynote de Apple. Aunque he de admitir que este proyecto añade poco respecto de su antedecesor no lo necesita, ya que de por sí es un  producto fantástico y no requiere de más.

La página web del proyecto tampoco decepciona

Podéis acceder a la web del proyecto aquí. La aplicación se encuentra programada en Python, OpenGL, GhostScript/Xpdf. Ah, y por suspuesto se trata de Software Libre, licenciado bajo GPL. Por cierto, el programa sirve tanto para PDF como para carpetas de imágenes o imágenes sueltas inclusive.

Características:

• Transacciones de páginas, con efectos simples pero hermosos.
• Vista general, dar un vistazo rápido a todas las páginas.
• Resaltar, en un cuadrado de luz algo.
• Efecto foco:Hacer una bolita con el puntero, de lo que quieras resaltar.
• Zoom, para ampliar la imagen.

I remember standing on stage, speaking to 300 people on how difficult it is to demonstrate our hidden value.  My point was most people don’t trust what they can’t see and for us to prove our worth we have to make it visible.  I really thought I had this group convinced when one person stood up and said, “Curt, if people don’t trust what they can’t see, why does three quarters of the world believe in God?” Well, I will tell you I had a divine intervention; I looked back and said, “I think God has a better sales team!”

Think about it. There are two times in your life you adopt religion: first, you are cultured through those you trust, or second, you come to a point in your life (i.e. crisis) where you see how life would be different with God in it.  It’s now five years later and I still believe that this is one of the most powerful lessons I’ve learned, and I believe this simple lesson is the foundation on which powerful employee relationships are built. Employees need to see how their life will be different with you, the employer, in it and they have to see how the company’s life is different with them in it.  Employees want to appreciate what they do, and they absolutely need to know that what they do is appreciated.  So how can you make their contribution visible?  I say take the time to show them the numbers.  Let them see, first hand, how they make a difference.

When I was President of ExecuTrain Canada, I made a decision that every employee should be invited to review our corporate financial statements and learn the basics of how their involvement impacted our performance.  What happened was that we started to see employees take ownership for managing their business and making great decisions.  Even though our business was struggling, they could see how their commitment and efforts were moving us in the right direction.  For example, when the employees saw the huge amount of money we had tied up in accounts receivable, everyone made a commitment to collect the money that was rightfully ours.  Every week we reviewed the numbers, we strategized new ideas, and the employees got further excited about the difference their contribution was making.

Our business was in very bad shape. We were trying to fend off bankruptcy. But because the employees could see how their work was making a difference, we were able to keep them focused and motivated on the task at hand —  surviving.  By letting your employees see under the hood and truly understand the challenges and opportunities of the business, you can also improve morale.  When employees are not given access to information they tend to fill in the blanks on their own.  Their thinking can often be very different from reality.  This can result in employees distrusting senior management and, more importantly, distrusting what is being communicated to them.  In fact, according to a study by Discovery Surveys, just 53 percent of employees believe the information they receive from senior management.

So let me ask you, are your employees invited to participate in a financial review?  Do they understand where and how their contribution impacts the business?  Are they empowered to suggest ideas that could help to reshape the business?  I am always surprised by how many businesses keep financial performance a secret.

Stephen Semple, president of Thinc Strategies, a Toronto based management consulting firm says that employees today want to be tied to clear actionable results.  He also says employers need to minimize performance review surprises by communicating clear expectations throughout the year.  He says that surprising employees during their performance review is a great way to lose trust and deflate morale.  He wholeheartedly believes tying performance back to financial or objective business indicators is the best way to open communication.

At ExecuTrain I created a very simple one-page report that allowed our management team to see the basic business indicators all in one view.  The report contained more than just numbers. It looked at financial performance, customer metrics, employee satisfaction, business process and investments in R&D.  It contained all of the indicators against which our business performance was measured.
This month, take the time to educate your team on the numbers.  Show them clearly how they can make a difference in the business.  Create a one page scorecard that shows them these numbers.  In the end there are no surprises, and you may just be pleasantly surprised to find your employees showing more ownership and taking more responsibility.

• We created a relationship with a local counsellor for any employee who needed help.
• We provided babysitting assistance for the spouse of any employee who was required to be out of town more than a week.
• When needed, we reimbursed expenses immediately to ensure that no employee was ever inconvenienced.

Hay tanto que hablar sobre Keynote que esta vez me ha costado trabajo decidirme por un tema para abordar en este artículo. Pero al fin me he decidido por Alpha y la máscara; ambas son funciones para trabajar con las imágenes que le pongamos a nuestras presentaciones. Alpha se encuentra en la barra principal de Keynote y ‘máscaras’ consiste en poder cambiar el enmarque de una  imagen de manera diferente a la que viene por defecto, así podremos -por ejemplo- cambiar un plano general a un primer plano en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. Mi primer acercamiento con estas interesantes opciones  fue hace unos días, en una de esas tardes que dedico a ‘jugar con los programas’ para ver si encuentro algo nuevo en este, lo cual generalmente así ocurre.

Pero entrando en tierra derecha, Alpha es básicamente una excelente función que nos ofrece el programa para poder crear efectos muy llamativos con nuestras imágenes de manera sencilla y rápida. Lo que hace este botón es borrar el fondo de una o más imágenes que pongamos en nuestras diapositivas, claramente es muy útil para hacer de mejor manera nuestras presentaciones. Yo creo que a todos nos ha pasado que, cuando estamos haciendo una presentación en Keynote, encontramos la imagen perfecta para la diapositiva, pero el fondo de dicha imagen nos molesta mucho, se ve feo, o simplemente desentona con el tema que hemos aplicado a aquella diapositiva. Bueno gracias a Alpha esto se acabó, ya que podremos borrar todo el fondo de la imagen para que esta quede sola, pero, ¿como es posible hacer esto?

Primero que nada debemos encontrar una imagen (a elección) para trabajar con esta y poniéndola en una diapositiva. Por ejemplo, yo he elegido la siguiente imagen para trabajar esta vez.

Como ya saben, al abrir Keynote debemos fijarnos en la barra principal y veremos el botón disponible para usarse cuando tengamos seleccionada una imagen. Luego de tener seleccionada la imagen y haber usado Alpha, el cursor se trasformará en una especie de cruz, y al ir poniendo ésta sobre el fondo de la imagen se va formando un circulo, con el que iremos seleccionando las partes que queremos borrar, como muestra la siguiente captura:

Al terminar de seleccionar y borrar todo el fondo de nuestra imagen, quedará el dibujo principal solo, sin nada que estorbe. Está de más decir que hay algunas imágenes en que es muy difícil ’sacar el fondo’, por lo tanto si se complican demasiado con una, pueden intentar con otra.

Estoy seguro que este efecto les servirá muchísimo en más de una oportunidad para darle un toque especial a sus exposiciones. Pero eso no es todo lo que veremos hoy, también les enseñaré a aplicar máscaras, opción que nos ofrece Keynote y que nos sirve para cambiar el enmarque de la imagen con la que estamos trabajando. En la barra principal del programa, al lado izquierdo del botón Alpha, veremos otro botón llamado ‘máscara’. Al presionarlo veremos que dentro de la imagen se ha creado un cuadro, y lo podremos mover, acercar y alejar a nuestro antojo. Así la imagen se moldeará a lo que nosotros hemos decidido, tal como muestra la siguiente imagen

Este  ha sido el artículo dedicado a Keynote de esta semana. Espero que les sirva a los que no sabían ocupar estas funciones de Keynote, para ir aprendiendo juntos a aprovecharlo en profundidad.

Saludos a todos y que disfruten sus Macs

Hallöchen. Heute wollte ich hier mal so auflisten, was sich so alles auf meinem iPhone-Homescreen tummelt.

Fangen wir mit dem Dock an:

Seite 1:

Seite 2:

Seite 3:

Das waren meine ersten 3 Seite komplett. Jetzt kommen nur noch “Empfehlungen”:

Stand: 2009-11-18. (iTunes-Links)
Alle Angaben ohne Gewähr.
P.S.: Ich habe einige Apps nicht zu diesen Preisen gekauft. Da waren sie zeitweise günstiger o. Ä.

Cualquier usuario del paquete ofimático de Apple, iWork, estará de acuerdo con que el poder visual y el atractivo de las plantillas de estos programas son infinitamente mejores que la mejor plantilla que pueda ofrecer cualquiera de los programas de Office, de Microsoft.

Sin embargo también es cierto que estas plantillas se hacen, en ocasiones, un poco escasas.

Investigando un poco sobre el tema, buscando ampliar mi colección de plantillas como siempre, de forma gratuita, me he encontrado con Jumsoft, una empresa que ofrece gran cantidad de recursos para los programas de iWork, e incluso para Mail.

Ofrecen recursos de pago y gratuitos. Centrémonos en los segundos:

• Fondos para Keynote
• Plantillas para Keynote
• Plantillas para Mail
• Objetos FX para Keynote

Si os sabe a poco también existen otras web que ofrecen recursos para iWork y que ya ha analizado Todo Aple Blog, así que no invierto tiempo en hacerlo yo.

Having prepared a presentation for BTG, it would be useful to spend some time sharing this in a useful way.

Options for this are:

• posting the ppt in googledocs – easy and includes presenter notes, but doesn’t play vids
• posting the .doc in googledocs – easy and retains enough of the formatting
• posting the ppt in slideshare – easy to do but loose the video elements and the presenter notes. This allows a soundtrack mp3 file to be added, and presumably then synced. This would be nice to try as it might have further application. How easy is the mp3 recording? This would make the lack of presenter notes redundant.
• putting it in keynote and adding commentary – not sure I want to embark on this as there would need to be a few steps after that before sharing
• Putting into voicethread and commenting – videos wouldn’t translate and the audio might be messy
• videoing – more trouble than it is worth. This would require someone else to do this during the show
• Adding to blog – this would be an addition to other steps

From this list it looks like the audio commentary for slideshare would be best as I would like to learn how this works – seems to have potential for student use. Will put in a tech request for this.

Can also publish the paper on docs and link both in this blog

Das iPhone hat laut Gartner einen Marktanteil bei Smartphones von 17 Prozent (12,4 Prozent im Vorjahr). Damit ist klar, dass mobile Device von Apple ist ein Renner. Und obwohl das Telefon eigentlich intuitiv zu erlernen ist, braucht es für manche User Zusatzliteratur. Früher gab es bei der Volkshochschule Kurse à la: Wie bediene ich mein Handy? Heute gibt es ein interessantes Buch mehr.

Dieses Buch sticht aus der Masse der jüngst veröffentlichten iPhone-Bücher heraus: “Mein iPhone & ich”, geschrieben von meinen lieben Kollegen Michael Krimmer und Simone Ochsenkühn. Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über den praktischen Einsatz des iPhones. Es ist nicht für Hacker oder iApps-Entwickler, sondern für den klassischen User, der die Leistung seines Apple-Produkts voll ausreizen will. Im Technikteil flüssig geschrieben, mit vielen anschaulichen Screenshots finden sich allerhand Tipps und Tricks für Einsteiger, aber auch Profis. Ich bin selbst ein iPhone-Fan der ersten Stunde und auch ich als Power-User fand einige lohnenswerte Kniffe in diesem Buch. Gratulation.

Natürlich lässt sich trefflich darüber streiten, welche Apps aus dem Store denn wirklich lohnenswert sind. Jeder hat hier seine persönlichen Vorlieben. Hier bin ich mit den Autoren nicht immer der selben Meinung, aber für einen Überblick reicht es, um die Faszination iPhone zu erfassen.

Kritik gibt es aber auch: Das Buch dreht sich um das Kult-Telefon von Apple. Doch leider gehen die Autoren auf den Kult eben nicht ein. Es gibt nichts zu lesen über die Einführung des Telefons, die Kampagnen, das geniale Marketing, die Keynote von Apple-Guru Steve Jobs. Dies alles hätte in ein Buch um ein Kultobjekt gehört. So ist das Buch nur eine Bedienungsanleitung für ein Telefon. Eine gute zwar, aber eben nicht mehr.

Leider gibt es auch immer wieder Passagen im Buch, die sich um die menschliche Seite des iPhone-Users gemmühen. Diese fallen im Vergleich zum stringenten Technikteil des Buches ab. Hier wäre der Lektor gefragt, das Niveau anzugleichen.

Dennoch: Die 20 Euro sind für rund 460 gehaltvolle Seiten sinnvoll investiert. Wer mal etwas lesen möchte, dem empfehle ich diese Website.

Une keynote où motivation et bonne rémunération ne font pas forcément bon ménage.

(Tina Here!)

Well we slept through breakfast because we were so exhausted from the last two days.  We met up with Zali for the Opening Day of the Congress before Chris had to give her Keynote.  The Keynote was extremely well received by all 300 participants – Chris had a mile long line of people wanting to thank her, ask her opinion on various matters, and one gentleman even invited her to possibly speak in the UK next September. (You know where I’ll be next September! “The Chris-Tina Road Show”) 

Chris' keynote-yes, she actually worked!

We were invited to attend the evening “Mixer” which was an Irish Pub Evening.  They served “Pub Food” (Chris was relieved there was no Ox-Tail!) and, you guessed it… wait for it… BEER!  We each started the evening off with a Guiness Stout and ended with a gallon of water!

"I swear, this is the last one!"

We sat at the “Celebrity Table” with two South African celebrities: Helen DeBois a Singer who has written a theme song for SANBS that will be released next year, and Marisa Bosman who stars in a “Soapy” (“Sopa” Opera) called ISIDINGO.

"The Celebrities"-Tina, Marisa, Helen, Chris

We were treated to a Singing Competition by each of the Blood Center Regional Groups.  They had to come up with a blood donation related theme song and sing in the competition.  We had “The Blood Clots”, The Twilights who dressed like vampires, and there was even a group that did an Abba medley and they named themselves the ABBO’s (get it – blood types!)

"The Blood Clots" singing their song - THEY WON!

After dinner we danced our Arses off to the Blarney Bros. Band.  They played Irish tunes, American tunes, and we even did the African Hokey Pokey (sorry Genevieve, no Polka’s!).  We were amazed at how many people got up and sang and danced the entire night.  There is an incredible love of life that is palpable here – no one can resist the urge to celebrate and dance.  Talk about living in the present time!

The Blarney Brothers Band

How white girls dance...

 Ohhhh, the humility…..

Dr. Sam (a general surgeon) A.K.A. "Bob Marley", Tina & Chris boogying down!

So tomorrow we are off to Cape Town and everyone has said such great things about it soooooo we are soooooo excited!

Until Tomorrow, Chris-Tina

Hola a todos, hoy haciendo zapping por la TV he ido a parar en el canal Cartoon, y la programación del momento me ha recordado a esa época en la que todos los sabados por la mañana nos encontrabamos a las Super Nenas en nuestras pantallas!

Me ha recordado a esa época porque era lo que estaban dando XD. Y he decidido traeros el tipo de letra de estas magnificas super heroinas!

Espero que os guste y que las disfruteis!

Enlace de descarga: Super Nenas

Salu2 y gracias!

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Intelligence/Presentation-Secrets-of-Steve-Jobs-392452/?kc=EWKNLEDP11132009A

This shows a step by step if you want to do it.  Click here.

Continuando con los artículos dedicados a Keynote, los cuales he empezado la semana pasada, y como ya dije anteriormente en el artículo pasado, la idea de esto es que ChilenoMac aporte su ‘granito de arena’ sobre un tema del cual circula escueta información por internet, o al menos, esa es mi percepción. Otra información que me gustaría darles, es que desde hoy los artículos dedicados a Keynote no serán ni uno ni dos, ni siquiera tres, sino que se tomarán, sagradamente, todos los jueves como la saga de tutoriales que se tenía merecida un programa como este. Bueno, sin más preámbulo vamos a lo que nos convoca esta vez.

Lo que hacemos hoy será aprender a usar el botón de ‘inspector‘, uno de los botones más útiles dentro de la barra principal de Keynote, se preguntarán ¿que es lo que tienes de especial este botón?, bueno básicamente es ‘el botón’ que nos lleva a realizar muchos de los efectos y demás cosas interesantes  que hacen más dinámicas nuestras presentaciones. Así que esta entrada la ocuparé para revelar todos sus misterios y así ustedes puedan aprovecharlo de la mejor manera y sacarle el mayor provecho posible a todas las espectaculares funciones que este puede llegar a tener.

Lo primero que me llamó a mi atención cuando fui indagando en el botón inspector, es que todo está muy bien sintetizado en él, al diferencia de Power Point que todo tiene un menú distinto y hay que casi adivinar donde está cada cosa, en Keynote es diferente gracias a el botón inspector y a medida que vayamos avanzando ustedes se darán cuenta por sí mismos.

La semana pasada ya expliqué  bastante sobre la mayoría de los iconos que se ubican en la barra principal de Keynote, pero quise dejar un artículo completo ( y más seguramente) sobre ‘inspector’ debido a su mayor complejidad. Para empezar podemos definir a este botón como el ‘el menú para todo’, vale decir que es una ventana donde se encuentra los menús para textos, diapositivas, efectos, figuras, gráficas, videos, etc. Es por esto que es tan útil y tan importante aprender a usarlo.

Como pueden ver en la imagen superior, la ventana cuenta con múltiples pestañas, cada una de esas es la entrada para su menú correspondiente, es decir, si seleccionamos la pestaña de gráficas podremos ver el menú que corresponde a gráficas, si seleccionamos el de diapositivas, veremos el menú que corresponde a ella y así sucesivamente. Para poder hacernos una mejor idea de cada cosa, iré haciendo un pequeño resumen de cada menú correspondiente a cada una de las pestañas, partiendo de izquierda a derecha.

Primero tenemos la pestaña de documento, esta sirve para bastantes cosas y podemos distinguir que posee dentro de el menú, tres pestañas que se ven como documento, audio y spotlight. dentro de la primera llamada documento podemos cambiar cosas referentes al archivo en sí, cosas tales como designar una contraseña para poder abrir el archivo, reproducir de inmediato al abrirlo, etc. El siguiente llamado audio sirve para poner de forma muy fácil e intuitiva, solo debemos presionar en la opción biblioteca iTunes, una vez hecho esto se abrirá una ventana con nuestra biblioteca, elegimos una canción y listo, cada vez que reproduzcamos nuestro keynote la canción comenzará a sonar desde el principio. Este es una interesante función a la cual le podemos sacar mucho partido, ya que hará de nuestras presentaciones algo más interesante y agradable de ver.

Por último la siguiente pestaña dentro de documentos es spotlight, una función que, a mí parecer, es muy útil, ya que dentro de esta podemos poner algo así como ‘tags’ o palabras claves, para encontrar nuestro documento rápidamente con spotlight sin tener que abrir ventanas innecesarias .

Continuando con al profunda descripción de el botón inspector, nos pasaremos a la siguiente pestaña llamada diapositiva, claro nos queda que aquí podremos encontrar todas las configuraciones referente a cada una de nuestras diapositivas. Dentro de la misma podemos ver dos pestañas una llamada Transición y otra llamada apariencia.

• Transición contiene todo lo referente a los efectos para pasar una a otra diapositiva, cuenta con más de 20 efectos diferentes para poner en nuestras presentaciones. Luego veremos algunos trucos para combinar de mejor manera algunos efectos en determinadas situaciones.
• Y la opción de apariencia contiene las opciones para modificar los elementos de nuestras diapositiva, por ejemplo, sacar el titulo, poner relleno a la diapositiva, etc.

Al ir avanzando por las pestañas nos encontramos que la siguiente es ‘composición’, la cual también consta con varias sub-pestañas, por llamarlo de alguna manera, y entre ellas distinguimos tres; entrada, salida y acción. está claro que cada una corresponde a los efectos que queremos poner para que la diapositiva entre salga y actúe.

La siguiente pestaña es el menú de los textos de nuestra Keynote, y en el podemos hacer cosas como, el espaciado de los textos, color de fuente, el ancho de las columnas y el nivel de sangría de las viñetas. Esta opción no tiene muchos objetivos estéticos sino más bien técnicos pero no por ello será menos útil.

Al seguir el naufragio en el que nos hemos embarcado a través de las pestañas, nos topamos con la pestaña de figuras, la cual no creo que necesite mayores explicaciones más allá de la intuitividad del programa y los conocimientos previos que he proporcionado no sepan explicar. Lo mismo pasa con las pestañas de dimensiones y tablas. Pero quiero detenerme en la pestaña de gráficas por que aquí si hay un par de cosillas que quisiese explicar en profundidad.

En la pestaña de gráficas en el inspector podemos ver las siguiente ventana una vez que haber creado un gráfico, y en esta ventana podemos configurar, la profundidad del gráfico ( si este es 3D), los colores del gráfico, el ángulo que le queremos dar ( si este es de torta), modificar sus datos, también podemos definir si queremos que nos muestre los datos en porcentaje o en números, en fin, una gran variedad de cosas referente a el gráfico creado.

También en la barra inferior, que está ubicada debajo de la barra principal que ya conocemos en profundidad, podemos ver unas configuraciones que podemos hacer para modificar nuestro gráfico, como por ejemplo el tipo y tamaño de letra que estamos ocupando en el o la modificación del relleno y la sombra.

Al tratar de arreglarla y modificarla se darán cuenta que los gráficos creados en Keynote son bastante más moldeables y manejables que los que podemos hacer en Power Point o puede ser que ambos sean iguales de manejables, pero en Keynote resulta mucho más intuitivo todo.

A mi parecer, el desempeño que tiene Keynote con las gráficas es notable, nada que envidiarle a nadie.

Las dos últimas pestañas que nos quedan son las de hipervínculo y la de quicktime.

Hipervínculo es la pestaña que fue diseñada para introducir un link de página web y no tiene mayor complejidad por lo que obviaré la explicación. Y la pestaña de quicktime es muy interesante para aquellos que le gustaría poner un video y reproducirlo desde quicktime, pero la verdad es que yo no ocupo mucho esta función, así que más allá no es mucho lo que me puedo explayar.

Con esto culmina el artículo de hoy dedicado a Keynote, un gran programa que aún nos guarda muchos secretos por revelar, sin más, espero que la entrada de hoy haya sido de su completo agrado y, ojalá, que hayan aprendido mucho, aquellos que no sabían esto y los que lo sabían, bueno, que hayan profundizado sus conocimientos. Los esperaré, como siempre, la próxima semana con un nuevo artículo acerca de Keynote.

Saludos a todos y que disfruten sus Macs

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