If you want a pretty name for your website goto https://www.squarespace.com Buy a domain name for $12/year. One time, connect this domain name to your google siteIf desired, create free email forwarding

Video Creation with PowerPointPowerPoint 2010+ has a simple option to save to video PowerPoint = File - Export - Video - SizeInsert audio1 = with Animations - Animation Pane - Effect Options - Sound - Other Sound (advantage auto slide length to audio length, disadvantage might want WAV format)Insert audio2 = Drag/drop MP3 audio onto slide and then select - play in background - no loop (later must manually set video length to match audio length)Record audio using phone or capture google translations using audacity. For a fee, www.presentermedia.com is an excellent source of royalty free images/video

Google Translate Text/AudioFree text and audio translations at www.translate.google.com

Audacity program can record audio direct from web through speakersChange 3 default Audacity Recording option from microphone to capture speaker out 1-Windows WASAPI (not MME or Directsound) 2-Speakers (not microphone)

 Backup Site: Classic Google Sites and other Google data can be exported with Google Takeout: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout?pli=1  

Cross-Post to Instagram and Facebook from windows computer with Creator Studio. https://business.facebook.com/creatorstudio. Creator Studio brings together all the tools you need to effectively post, manage, monetize and measure content across all your Facebook Pages and Instagram accounts. Allows facebook bulk upload of video and PC upload for Instagram

Video Editing using free VSDC software = http://www.videosoftdev.com Amazing number of options - youtube training availableReduce background noise using Audio Gate Filter (very helpful)For a fee, www.presentermedia.com is an excellent source of royalty free images/video Embed Google Photo Album: https://www.publicalbum.org/blog/embedding-google-photos-albums

Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate  - Sep 23, 2014 by George Lakoff Lakoff explains how framing is about ideas―ideas that come before policy, ideas that make sense of facts, ideas that are proactive not reactive, positive not negative, ideas that need to be communicated out loud every day in public. The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant! picks up where the original book left off―delving deeper into how framing works, how framing has evolved in the past decade, how to speak to people who harbor elements of both progressive and conservative worldviews, how to counter propaganda and slogans, and more.

The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church – May 1, 2007 by Gregory Boyd: The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword. Whenever the church has succeeded in gaining what most American evangelicals are now trying to get – political power – it has been disastrous both for the church and the culture. Whenever the church picks up the sword, it lays down the cross. The present activity of the religious right is destroying the heart and soul of the evangelical church and destroying its unique witness to the world. 

Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations – July 29, 2008 by Ori BrafmanIf you cut off a spider's head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. Traditional top-down organizations are like spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of business and the world.What?s the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women's rights movements? 

Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us – June 7, 2011 by Christopher Chabris In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot.

World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century – July 24, 2007 by Thomas Friedman "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country, this third edition also includes two new chapters--on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world; and on the more troubling question of how to manage our reputations and privacy in a world where we are all becoming publishers and public figures.

Six Thinking Hats – August 18, 1999 by Edward de Bono Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success in business depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. "We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls."

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step – February 24, 2015 by Edward De Bono The first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented bestseller trains listeners to move beyond a "vertical" mode of thought to tap the potential of lateral thinking. The classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono. In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then? Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows how to stimulate the mind in new and exciting ways. Soon you will be looking at problems from a variety of angles and offering up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective.

Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – May 11, 2010 by Nassim Nicholas TalebA black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them.

Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – January 7, 2002 by Malcolm Gladwell The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way – July 29, 2014 by Amanda Ripley How do other countries create “smarter” kids? What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World “gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture look newly strange....The question is whether the startling perspective provided by this masterly book can also generate the will to make changes” (The New York Times Book Review).

Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives by Dean Buonomano The human brain may be the best piece of technology ever created, but it’s far from perfect. Drawing on colorful examples and surprising research, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano exposes the blind spots and weaknesses that beset our brains and lead us to make misguided personal, professional, and financial decisions. Whether explaining why we are susceptible to advertisements or demonstrating how false memories are formed, Brain Bugs not only explains the brain’s inherent flaws but also gives us the tools to counteract them.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – April 3, 2007 by Malcolm Gladwell Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

Your Brain's Politics: How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide - Dec 1, 2016 by George LakoffAt first glance, issues like economic inequality, healthcare, climate change, and abortion seem unrelated. However, when thinking and talking about them, people reliably fall into two camps: conservative and liberal. What explains this divide? Why do conservatives and liberals hold the positions they do? And what is the conceptual nature of those who decide elections, commonly called the "political middle"?The answers are profound. They have to do with how our minds and brains work. Political attitudes are the product of what cognitive scientists call Embodied Cognition — the grounding of abstract thought in everyday world experience. Clashing beliefs about how to run nations largely arise from conflicting beliefs about family life: conservatives endorse a strict father and liberals a nurturant parent model...