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Teaching Tip: Make The Right Impression at Your Presentation With Video Projection Systems

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Making the right impression when presenting is key, not only to delivering your core message, but to help establish or maintain your credibility on the topic. A slip up on your presentation, or a poor quality video projection, and you risk damaging that vital first impression forever. Getting it right requires a well-designed, well-themed video … Read more

Social Media to Land Writing Gigs & Make Money

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Use Social Media to Land Writing Gigs and Make Money is this year’s social media panel for the American Society of Journalists & Authors annual conference session. May 1, 2015 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Connect for Success! Come and learn new skills and meet new writers and editors and agents.

What’s Eric Fingerhut Doing at a Jerusalem U Event?

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On Feb. 25, 2015, New York City’s 92nd Street Y hosted a screening of Jerusalem U’s documentary, “Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus.” After the movie there was a panel discussion featuring Eric Fingerhut, President and CEO of Hillel International.

ASJA Writers Conference: Secrets of Interviewing Famous People

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ASJA PANEL • Saturday, May 2, 2015 • 2:00–3:30PM Editors love to get exclusive interviews with top people in the field their publication covers. Writers who can deliver interesting Q&As or profiles continue to get assignments. The challenge is that the bigger the name, the harder it is to get to the celebrity/leader. The panel … Read more

Dogs Celebrate at a Mardi Gras

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photo by Dorri Olds Over the weekend, I had the thrill of attending a Mardi Gras double-doggie birthday bash fundraiser at Animal Haven Shelter in New York. The event was organized by Bobbi Mitchell, mom to birthday girl BB, and co-organized by Joann Mercado for her birthday girl, Lily. The fabulous fashion event — dog fashions that is … Read more

An Exclusive Interview with Actor & Activist Edward James Olmos

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Best Actor Academy Award-nominee Edward James Olmos (“Stand and Deliver”) turns 68 next month. He is one cool cat living nine lives all at once. Born in East Los Angeles, the Mexican-American actor is also a writer, director, producer, activist, philanthropist, father, husband and grandfather. Does this man ever sleep? In 1980, he founded Olmos Productions and has produced … Read more

The Most Popular Working Dog Breeds

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Working dog breeds have been developed over time to perform a wide variety of tasks, such as guarding, rescuing, hunting and herding. Headstrong and intelligent, these breeds are usually, although not always, large, strong dogs, that have a close association with humans. While many of the jobs that working dogs were originally bred for are … Read more