Wednesday, May 01, 2013

PresenterMedia acquires BrainyBetty

http://www.presentermedia.com/blog/2013/05/press-release-may-01-2013/

Today, PresenterMedia announced the acquisition of BrainyBetty.  We are proud to bring Betty into our family of educational and business media content and look forward to continue providing the quality content which followers of BrainyBetty have been able to enjoy for the past decade.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Have you checked out our Pinterest pages yet?

 

You can find practically all of our pages linked at Pinterest and the graphical method for the pins really allows you to find what you need quickly! See all the boards here…

Follow Me on Pinterest

Monday, January 09, 2012

Streamline Your Facebook Timeline and De-Clutter!

Brainy Betty Tutorials

Learn in a few short steps how to de-clutter your Facebook Timeline by Using Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010 to get feeds from the product or service pages you "Liked" on Facebook. Brought to you by Brainy Betty:http://www.brainybetty.com


You can also download the pdf version of this video at the website from the tutorials menu.

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Download 25 free iPhone 4 backgrounds

 

Today you can find 25 free iPhone 4 backgrounds at Brainy Betty. Download them all here:

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4 new free sound loops for your presentations and videos

 

All of these loops are absolutely free to use and repurpose any way you’d like for personal or commercial use.

Enjoy! And do please let me know if you have any special requests as far as a type of music you’d like to see on these pages.

Monday, January 02, 2012

2012 Inspirational Actions Planner

 

Download the new free 2012 Inspirational Actions Planner from the homepage of our website (see top right column for the link, please). Every month has a lesson and an action to improve your life!

Sample:

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Stay tuned at Brainy Betty for a tutorial tomorrow on how to get rid of all the pages you have “Liked” on Facebook by streamlining the way you get information – it’s not on your Facebook Timeline, cluttering everything up, but as RSS feeds in Outlook to read at your leisure.

Another tutorial is in the works about Fonts and Colors for presentations and download our 2012 Strategy Planning backgrounds on the website right now! (See preview below).

 

Happy 2012 everyone! Become a Facebook Fan for daily freebies, and downloads or follow us on Twitter.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

New Tutorial: How to use Word 2010 Quick Parts and Building Blocks and Save Yourself LOTS of Time!

 

Thursday, October 06, 2011

New Windows 7 Tutorial: How to Add 2 more time zones to your system clock

 

Learn in under 1 minute flat how to view 2 additional time zones in your system clock. Useful for webinars and conference calls to others in differing zones and also when connecting with family or friends over seas.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

New Tutorial: 3 Arts & Crafts you can create with PowerPoint 2007/2010 (No Photoshop Needed!)

 

imageLearn to create 3 arts and crafts projects with PowerPoint 2007/2010. The pdf will show you how to:

  • Create a stencil
  • Create a silhouette from a digital photo
  • Create a Vision Board and use it as your desktop computer background

Visit our Tutorials page for all the latest Articles and Videos!

Saturday, September 24, 2011

NO Donation Required. Please help the International Book Project. Take 30 seconds to do this!

Hi folks, will you take a moment and do something for us?
International Book Project:
In honor of their one year anniversary tomorrow, for each new like the Beiting Law Office http://www.facebook.com/BeitingLaw, LLC page gets between now and September 26, 2011, they will donate $1 to the IBP! All you have to do is click like and International Book Project get $1!
IBP serves so many children in so many countries and is a wonderful organization! Please share. :)  (And yes, that’s my son on the front page – he is the Books as Bridges Coordinator!)
Can I count on you?

No Donation Required. Just click the link above and click “Like” before September 26th.

Thank you all and God Bless!

Nan@BrainyBetty

What Your Facebook Profile Will Look Like and Do Differently in October 2011!

Can’t wait another red hot minute to see what your new Facebook profile looks like? Do this…

 

1. Get the Developer Facebook app. Type "Developer" into the Facebook search bar and click on the first result. Click "Allow." Now you're a developer.
2. In the top righthand corner of the Developer app, click on the "+ Create New App" button. Fill out the App display name and description. (Just make something up or type gibberish; this won't actually create an app that will be visible).
3. Agree to the Developer privacy agreement. TechCrunch says you need to have a "verified account" for this, which means that you'd need to have a credit card attached to your Facebook profile; I don't have a verified account, however, and I was able to get the new profile.
4. Find the "Open Graph" on the left sidebar and type in a test verb and noun for your new app. I started a "Bake a Cake" app, so my test verb will be "Bake" and my test noun will be "Cake":
5. Run through a few pages of new app information. No need to enter anything here, just keep on saving changes and continuing.
6. In five to ten minutes, you'll have an invitation at the top of your Facebook profile to try out the new profile. WARNING: It might be buggy.

[UPDATE: If you decide afterward that you don't want the new timeline for any reason, it's very easy to revert back. Go back into your "Developer" page and click "Edit App." This will bring up a sidebar on the left side of your page. Click "Delete App." After you do this, your profile should be reverted back to the original.]

This is option one and is obviously not for everyone. Option two is to sign up for beta notification right here. When Facebook is ready for users to test out the new profile, you will be emailed and get to try out before all of your friends.

And voila! Those are two ways that you can get the new Facebook profile immediately, if you're desperate for the change.

 

From: TechCrunch

Monday, September 19, 2011

NEW VIDEO TUTORIAL on our YouTube Channel!

How to create custom clipart for yourself, your company, school or organization using ONLY PowerPoint 2007 or 2010! Watch now:

Also, you can download the pdf from our site here: http://www.brainybetty.com/Powerpoint_Tutorials.htm

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Yahoo! Homepages for Homerooms

Yahoo! Homepages for Homerooms: Found this great classroom project – Drama Drama Drama: An AP English Class - that needs our votes to get funded by Yahoo! Take a minute to check it out!

Monday, August 22, 2011

Free Presentation Workshop!

imageFREE Outstanding presentations workshop hosted by the fabulously talented Ellen Finkelstein! Register now - it's only 2 1/2 weeks away and learn some fantastic techniques for PowerPoint and presentations!

During the Outstanding Presentations Workshop you'll learn to:

  • sharpen your skills
  • more clearly communicate your message
  • engage your audience
  • maximize your results
  • even bring your career to a new level

Each week, you'll hear from an amazing lineup of guest speakers who will reveal their secrets and strategies on presenting and speaking effectively. You'll be able to ask them any questions you have, such as:

  • How do I write content that meets the needs and questions of my audience?
  • How do I design high-impact slides even if I'm not a designer?
  • How do I deliver so that I connect with my audience?

Good-bye Death by PowerPoint!

Hello Life by PowerPoint!

When: Wednesdays, starting September 7, 2011 at 11am PT, 12pm MT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET. Each webinar lasts 1 hour but may run over slightly. Each webinar will be recorded so you can view it later (up to 2 weeks after the session). Register for the webinars now!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Review of a fabulous software tool: NXPowerLite: Compress all those Office, jpeg and pdf files efficiently!

 

homepage-top-bgIt’s been a long time between posts and some time since I’ve done a review. I’ve been redesigning the Brainy Betty site among other things and updating a 1,000+ pages yourself is no fun!

But, recently I got the opportunity to review a cool software tool that does MAJOR compression of Excel, PowerPoint and Word files, in addition to pdf files, jpeg pictures and even zip files that contain these types of things.

Why Do I Care?

Do you have someone in your family (not naming names, Dad), or a friend or someone at work who emails you these ginormous pictures or presentations and does not compress anything?  Before you know it, your little Inbox is stuffed to capacity with large attachments – not to mention your hard drive space.

I remember when I was working at Honeywell when we as a matter of course sent PowerPoint files and Excel workbooks containing huge projects as a daily task. (BTW, NXPowerLite has an File Server edition for companies/organizations as well – be sure and read about the companies using that and their results.)

But nowadays, for me, working from home as an independent businesswoman, I do find that my drives are indeed cluttered with large files that are necessary to keep, but definitely taking up hard drive space.

So I was happily surprised to find the NX”Lite” Desktop edition that makes me more efficient and my hard drive skinnier! Completely easy to use – you drag and drop files into the box and simply click “Optimize”.

Do you want to see my results? Here are the actual screen shots:

In the first case, I took some digital photographs and compressed them. 13.4 MB was reduced to 185 KB with absolutely no comparable loss in the quality of the photo or the dimensions! That’s 99% smaller than the original.

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In the second scenario, I took a PowerPoint presentation and reduced it – this one was filled with pictures, music and transitions – originally 8.3 MB, reduced to a very email-able 2.8 MB. A reduction in size of 66%.

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The software is VERY affordably priced for individuals and large companies will definitely see cost savings of all kinds if they purchase the File Server edition.

I was so happy with the results that I asked the company if they would be willing to give away copies to our Facebook and Twitter fans. They generously agreed to allow me to give away multiple copies, so be sure and join our Fan page or Follow Us on Twitter to learn how to snag one of these for yourself!

Great product – well worth checking out!

Nan @ brainybetty Smile

Monday, June 06, 2011

New minimalism in PowerPoint

VisualBee regularly extends the range of styles available to users. There are already hundreds of really smart and useful templates that you can select, on the fly, and the number is continually growing. Recently one of VisualBee’s designers developed a new concept for styles, one that is explicitly intended for presentations with minimal content. There is a growing momentum that encourages speakers to deliver an almost exclusively oral talk with PowerPoint being used only as a place holder. Read more...