March 12, 2010

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Fenway Women’s Dinner Saturday, March 13 – Best of Luck to the Team!

March 12, 2010 in Local Buzz, Our Bodies Ourselves by Rebecca | 2 comments

Sadly I won’t be going to the Fenway Health Women’s Dinner this year due to some obligations here at Beck’s Cafe.  BUT, if you can go you should.  It’s a great night. The food is wonderful, everyone is shiney gorgeous, and Kate Clinton is hilarious.   You can get tickets until about 12PM today, Friday March 12th,  by calling Fenway Health at 617-927-6350

The event raises money for health programs that Fenway Health offers to the community.  About 1200 lesbian, bi, and transgender women with their supporters and allies will be there to celebrate women’s health and raise money to implement it through Fenway Health.  It’s a fun time and for a great cause.  Mayor Menino and Governor Patrick are generally there as well so you can bet it’ll be swarming with lots of bling and fun. This year Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin will receive the Dr. Susan M. Love Award

So, while I can’t be there I’m raising a big, steaming mug of coffee to say Best of Luck to you June, Deb and Molly for this year’s event!!

Slideshare lets you share your presentations and documents with ease and style

March 12, 2010 in Frugal Tech by Rebecca | No comments

Slideshare is a free service that claims to allow users to share any “Powerpoint, word documents and PDF portfolios with our without voiceover”.  And sure enough it is!   We’ve been testing Slideshare for the past 3 months here at Beck’s Cafe and it works terrific.  As advertised, you can upload either Microsoft Powerpoint presentations or Adobe PDF files (we’ve not tried MS Word yet) and share with whomever you like!  This is a tremendous boon to those of us who need to share presentations with others to cut down on travel or to say something in Powerpoint that would be much harder to communicate with via a simple email.

The process is straightforward. You set up an account (for free with small charges for premium services), fill out a profile for yourself (or not, it’s optional) and upload your files.  From there you simply give someone the link on Slideshare to your uploaded presentation and your good to go!  Here are some examples:

  1. A presentation on Transgender Care from The University of California:
    1. http://www.slideshare.net/FNian/primary-care-for-transgender-patients-presentation
  2. How to Make Cupcakes
    1. http://www.slideshare.net/meghan1943/how-to-make-cupcakes
  3. Totally Cute Overload Presentation
    1. http://www.slideshare.net/effat57/cute-and-funny

What you essentially have is a low cost broadcast platform and for the Frugal Tech that’s an awesome tool for all kinds of educational and fun things.  You could use it to

  • Broadcast work presentations to other teams in your building or in other locations.
  • Use it to put up technical or other information then send the link via email to someone then talk them through the presentation (important if your presentation is big or attachments are blocked)
  • Use it to store your presentation to bring up at a symposium or other talk you do – you don’t have to bring the presentation with you then

Another nifty point is that Slideshare then lets you take the material and connect it to the world via Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, Buzz, or Blogger.    You can also embed the presentation in a blog post or other web site to just show it from your site vs. having someone follow the link back to your presentation at Slideshare.  Finally you could do a voice over on your presentation and then, when someone sees your presentation there is a voiceover that essentially turns it into a webinar!   Now that is cool!

So go get frugal with your tech by getting your own account at Slideshare and share your presentations with the world!