I am rebranding my training company’s website away from business writing and workplace communication skills toward personal development and the fostering of world peace, one person at a time. Yes, it sounds more dramatic, but communication skills will still have a lot to do with it. I’ve decided to make a slide show, narrated by me, to show the visitors to my website who I am and what I do. Here are some images I’ll probably be including. Other than the first one, I found these royalty and attribution-free at Pixabay.
What do you think?
My son took this a couple years ago in Rocky Mountain National Park. Mountains are a big theme here at Denali Training Solutions. It looks a little bleached out, though….
… So I tweaked all the settings at fotor.com. So easy! I’m a healthy color, my hair glows, and my image stands out in a three-dimensional way from the mountain backdrop. I give that web-based photo editor a 12/10 rating.
I’m REALLY opposed to a heavy-handed approach with human beings. (Or birds, for that matter.) I found this photo by searching for “violence” on Pixabay.
It’s SO much better to patiently nurture every soul that you are entrusted with. This came up along with the picture above under the heading “Maybe you’ll also like.”
It’s a great picture of a nurturing mom, but you know? It’s not quite emotional enough. It’s not quite BIG enough. (I searched for “chick.”)
So I cropped it. Now, it’s emotional. It was easy to do in Preview on my Macbook Pro.
I used to stay away from even remotely political issues in all my contracted training programs. But it’s 2020 now. I have no intention of coming out of this year the same way I came in. It’s time to heal this world, and maybe most especially to heal this country. But the only way to do that is one person at a time. Not through threats, not through shame. Through love, through learning, through life-affirming experience. If only there was some way to emphasize the message…. (This picture came up by searching for “racism.”)
There! That should do it! Once again, the editing tools in Preview come to the rescue. It is my intention that these particular pictures/slides will be moving very quickly, so the arrows are going to be helpful to focus my viewers’ attention.
I’m excited about putting this slide show/video/slam poetry reading (subject to change) together. I hope you’re excited too.