What is an Independent Contractor?
Having worked as an independent contractor for Excel VBA development for a number of years, I would like to share some useful expereinces for people who drop by my site and prospective clients. Firstly, I define an independent contractor as someone who who offers their time and skill over a limited engagement in exchange for compensation.
There are a number of good reasons you would want to hire someone from the outside to develop your Excel spreadsheets. Mainly to do with reducing overall costs and risks.
An independent contractor is hired only for the duration of a project and his engagement will end once the project finishes. Cost wise, you are only paying for his expertise for a limited duration. For small and mid sized projects, this is a very cost effective compared to hiring someone into your employment.
When you hire an independent contractor for a project, a well written service contract governs the rules of interaction with contractor and a view to acheive a certain set of visible end objectives. This service contract should have convenient termination clauses that allows both parties to terminate the project in a fair and amicable manner.
For Excel dashboards and powerpoint slide designs. Beautiful, imaginative, futuristic interfaces from Corning Glass.
This video from Corning Glass shows some cool concept technologies. Take a look at the beautiful and interactive computer interface designs. I can see some good ideas for dashboard designs and PowerPoint slides.
Some screen shots here:
I could use this as interesting shapes in my powerpoint slides.
Seems to work well in PowerPoint:
I took the idea and composed it on a PowerPoint slide.
More screen shots from the video:
This could look good in a PowerPoint presentation!
More screen shots from the video:
This definately looks good in a Dashboard.
Create Beautiful Slides like Steve Jobs (in PowerPoint!)
Steve Jobs will never be caught with an ugly slide during a MacWorld Expo! His presentation slides like all Apple products are always beautifully simple. Such slides are easy to create, easy to deliver and easy to be understood by everyone.
Steve Jobs always have beautiful slides.
To create slides like Steve Job is easy in PowerPoint:
1. Insert a blank slide.
2. Apply a 3-stop gradient fill to the slide background.
3. Set stop-1 to black.
4. Set stop-2 to a dark blue.
5. Set stop-3 to a lighter shade of dark blue.
6. Use san-serif fonts like Myriad to imitate typography of Apple products else Arial font is a good approximation.
You should get this:
This was done in PowerPoint.
To learn more about how to create beautiful slides like these in PowerPoint, check out this workshop: PowerPoint Design Ideas
Death by PowerPoint
It is a fact that most presentations suck, and they suck for many reasons.
This seminar is about how to create great looking slides. Making bad slides is easy and we have seen many. Making good slides is easy too, but you need to be willing to invest in your slides and invest in your own visual thinking skills. We’ll help you with the PowerPoint techniques along the way.
To learn more about how to create beautiful PowerPoint slides, check out this workshop: PowerPoint Design Ideas.
