I used to throw soft-porn photos into preliminary slide
presentations to keep the viewers awake. heh heh. It worked.
Definitely must be August.
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On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:49 PM, b_s-wilk wrote
I used to throw soft-porn photos into preliminary slide presentations
to keep the viewers awake. heh heh. It worked.
I like the sound of that!
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It might not work in my situation. :-)
Stewart
At 07:49 PM 8/21/2007, you wrote:
On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:49 PM, b_s-wilk wrote
I used to throw soft-porn photos into preliminary slide
presentations to keep the viewers awake. heh heh. It worked.
I like the sound of that!
Rev. Stewart A.
On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:03 AM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Why not start with using photos of the art as your screensaver. Select
a
folder of art so that the pictures will fade in and fade to the next
photo as people walk by. That could spark some curiosity. Tell them how
easy it is to do that, then show
Set a self-running slide show. Include a slide or two with simple
how-to info. Put the info slide as every 5th slide or so. Do
something to encourage people to touch the Mac. I used to throw
soft-porn photos into preliminary slide presentations to keep the
viewers awake. heh heh. It worked.
On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
You have to make it usefully important. I would make art-related
content
very accessible. This may not happen until you do get it displaying
your
art inventory.
I see that your message that was sent on August 16 finally hit my
inbox today,
Why not start with using photos of the art as your screensaver. Select a
folder of art so that the pictures will fade in and fade to the next
photo as people walk by. That could spark some curiosity. Tell them how
easy it is to do that, then show them how.
Then clear off the desktop and leave a
On Aug 15, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
It's getting hard to find reasons to buy a Windows PC, aside from
sheer
inertia. Windows PCs used to be far more cost-effective than Macs, but
no
longer. Macs can now compete hard with PCs on cost, for all but the
very
cheapest, sub-$600
Steve,
I would start by creating user accounts for them, or at least for some
logical sub-group. I would also invite them to a demonstration where
you help someone set up their desktop preferences and show them how to
do some basic real-world tasks. Then invite them to use their personal
People are normally afraid of unknown items, give em time, sit them down
and show them how to use it, the mac isn't going to show them how to use
itself. The faxing seems to be a perfect example, explain you want the
wasting of paper to stop and use that to get them on the computer. Don't
give
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from the
population. It's too bad those pesky pixar people are undesirableusing
non macs to make cars...
Mike
On 8/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might also want to point out that creative people
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from the
population.
First they came for Windows fanboys, and I said nothing because I was not a
Windows
fanboy...
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On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:18 AM, mike wrote:
People are normally afraid of unknown items, give em time, sit them
down
and show them how to use it, the mac isn't going to show them how to
use
itself. The faxing seems to be a perfect example, explain you want the
wasting of paper to stop and use
What do they say they are afraid of?
If they have trouble with camera cards on any system, it sounds as if they
aren't the brightest bulbs anyway. Is this your shop or is it owned by
another?
Mike
On 8/16/07, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Snyder, Mark
Also the idea they
have been trained to be afraid because they don't use a mac is beyond
ridiculous, they might be bristling at this notion.
I don't know--people can have very odd phobias sometimes. I remember
working as a temp at the Brookings Institution (the natives call it The
Brookings,
the same result. Folks don't like change.
I found Leading Change by John Kotter to be helpful.
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On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:32 PM, mike wrote:
What do they say they are afraid of?
If they have trouble with camera cards on any system, it sounds as if
they
aren't the brightest bulbs anyway. Is this your shop or is it owned by
another?
The shop is not mine. I just work there. The other
On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Admiral Harris wrote:
Steve,
I'm assuming from everything you've written that you don't have a lot
of experience in change management.
As much as you'd like to believe that its an evil M$ cult going on in
your shop, the truth is, if you required them to have
Some of you should immediately stop reading and hit the delete key. You
know who you are.
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It's getting hard to find reasons to buy a Windows PC, aside from sheer
inertia. Windows PCs used to be far more cost-effective than Macs, but no
longer. Macs can now compete
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