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 Presentation Tips and more on Light, Bright, & Polite  It is very important to know how to create slideshow presentations if you are a student or a business professional. The goal of this week's blog is to share how there are other alternatives to the regular Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint that you can use to enhance your digital profile.  The first alternative to Google Slides and PowerPoint is  Haiku deck . Haiku deck allows users to create professional looking slides with minimal words. This slideshow software allows you to create slides where you want to emphasize pictures over words. For example, in the picture below you can see how the picture is the main focus of the presentation, This is particularly useful if you want to present a slideshow to an audience where it's more proper to explain things or if you don't have much data to share. I think this is useful for me if I want to easily share to a family member or group how something works or what ...

The Social Dilemma and APA Formatting The goal of this week's blog is to provide commentary on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma  and to review key rules and applications of APA formatting.      The Social Dilemma , directed by Jeff Orlowski gives insight through various interviews of tech professionals how social media works behind the scenes. This documentary reveals how AI works, how people respond to social media, and how people are addicted to social media. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and so on have artificial intelligence scripts which run in the background predicting the best ads or videos/tweets for you to view. Ultimately, the goal of these companies programming these algorithms and machine learning programs is for you to stay on their website so they can generate revenue. One excerpt in the documentary that stood out to me by one of the interviewees was that "If you are not paying for the product, you are the product." This impac...