This is a great lens to have in your kit. I’m selling my great Nikon 70-300mm (f/4-5.6G) auto-focus lens. It’s in fantastic condition. Only selling it because I’m using a 18-200mm lens a lot more these days. This is a superb lens for shooting portrait/single faces from a distance to get beautiful depth-of-field behind them.
This is one of the lightest distance lenses you’ll ever have. Comes with mount cap, lens cap (with tether), and lens hood. $70 firm. You can pick it up any time and start using it right away!
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Nikon 52mm Prime Lens — $40
52mm prime lens takes outstanding shots with soft depth-of-field. This is a manual lens, giving you fast and complete control over the focus — no need to wait for the auto-focus to spin and whir until it locks in. Super light-weight and small. You’ll never notice it in your camera bag. Easily fits in your pants pockets for quick change. Comes with mount cap, lens cap (with tether), and UV filter which protects the lens glass. $40 firm.
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SOLD Nikon SB-600 Speedlight/External Flash — $150
Best price you’ll find on a SB-600 flash. ONLY USED ONCE! Sells new for twice as much [see Bestbuy price]. Uses regular AA batteries, so you can replace on the fly without waiting hours for a lithium ion battery to charge. This can be used as a slave remote flash to extend your lighting area. $150 firm. Pick it up any time and start using it right away.
BONUSES:
– Comes with small, light-weight stand.
– Comes with light diffuser.
– Comes with batteries.
Tod Maffin and Malcom Gladwell have been selected as the two keynote speakers at the upcoming F5 Expo in Vancouver. Hear Tod’s story of how he went from being an always-on multi-millionaire dotcom executive to crashing into depression and addiction. A story of hope and recovery, with a lesson to everyone in the tech industry; Tod will outline his five key tools to surviving in the techno-busy lifestyle.
Here’s how a local TV station covered my half-day workshop, Leading the Facebook Generation, in Medicine Hat last week.
What the Meeting Planner Said
“This event more than doubled any other event we have ever had so we were very pleased. The feedback from the evaluations provided was very positive… Everyone enjoyed Tod’s sense of humor and the way he gave the presentation. On a more personal level I enjoyed working with Tod thoroughly from the beginning with calls and emails as I was getting prepared for the event and when I met him. Tod was very accommodating and helpful. I have organized events for many years and I can honestly say that Tod has been one of the most accommodating and friendliest speakers I have ever had the pleasure to deal with.” – Vickie Keeley, Medicine Hat HR Association
What The Audience Said
“I just wanted to let you know that I was at the Leading the Facebook Generation seminar [in Medicine Hat], and being 22, I thought you were hilarious and pretty much right on the money. I look forward to seeing another seminar should you ever come back to town!” – Julia Jordan, Medicine Hat AB
“I really enjoyed the presentation. It was one of the best presentations I have ever been to, the information was great and you have an amazing ability in keeping the audiences attention. I have already taken a lot of what you said in your presentation and used it in my day to day communication with the older generations in my life. You are awesome. Thanks for making the stop in small town Medicine Hat!!!!” – Lacey Amen, Medicine Hat AB
In my ongoing quest to morph into Steve Jobs, I now have my own iPhone app. (It also works hella fine on iPod Touches.)
It’s got my latest blog postings, tweets, and YouTube videos. You can even “favourite” items you’d like to read later. I’d have put more info into it, but, sadly, the iPhone’s tiny screen didn’t accommodate the size of my enormous ego.
It’s very useful for killing time in airport lineups, showing to your kids as an example of how to not grow up, and opening once then deleting.
VANCOUVER, Sept. 16 /CNW/ – Social media expert Tod Maffin says companies are about to face a mass exodus of employees due to a kind of perfect storm brewing within two key generations of employees.
“With the Baby Boomers set to retire en masse, companies are going to have to find ways to replace them with younger employees,” says Maffin. “But that particular crop of employees – the ‘Facebook Generation’ – is as likely to walk out the back door as easily as they came in the front.”
“The first wave of employers to experience that kind of laissez-faire attitude was the service-driven industries – such as fast food restaurants – who were literally having to close their facilities at times because they couldn’t find and retain enough young workers to flip burgers and serve customers,” said Maffin.
Maffin says these twenty-something employees present an entirely new set of challenges for employers – and that companies need to take an entirely new approach to managing their needs and retaining their services.
Here are Maffin’s top five tips on how to do that:
Give Them Your Trust: Young people born between 1980 and 1990 were raised by Generation X parents who gave them unprecedented levels of trust. Misguided attempts at increasing productivity, like blocking Facebook and instant-messenger programs, scream “We don’t trust you!” to this group of workers (it’s like blocking telephone calls).
Focus on Team-Based Solutions: That’s the way they were taught all through school – it was all about group projects, not individual reports. Engage them in group projects and let them play an active role in that process. Consider giving them a box of their own personalized business cards on day one.
Skip the Annual Review: Generation Y requires instant feedback – don’t worry, they can take criticism, as long as it’s justified, immediate, and gives them an opportunity to work on correcting bad habits or misguided efforts.
Nix the Coffee Breaks: Eliminate scheduled breaks entirely. Let them take breaks when they feel they need it. Given this level of trust, most generation-Y workers will return the favor in spades by devoting extra time at work, often unpaid.
Invest in Technology: Your technology must at least keep pace with what this generation uses at home. That doesn’t necessarily mean the latest bleeding-edge turbo-machines, but a patched-up computer from the secretary pool won’t cut it.
For further information: Tod Maffin, tod@todmaffin.com, (604) 618-2861
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This is a great lens to have in your kit. I’m selling my great Nikon 70-300mm (f/4-5.6G) auto-focus lens. It’s in fantastic condition. Only selling it because I’m using a 18-200mm lens a lot more these days. This is a superb lens for shooting portrait/single faces from a distance to get beautiful depth-of-field behind them.
Best price you’ll find on a SB-600 flash. ONLY USED ONCE! Sells new for twice as much [see Bestbuy price]. Uses regular AA batteries, so you can replace on the fly without waiting hours for a lithium ion battery to charge. This can be used as a slave remote flash to extend your lighting area. $150 firm. Pick it up any time and start using it right away.
“I just wanted to let you know that I was at the Leading the Facebook Generation seminar [in Medicine Hat], and being 22, I thought you were hilarious and pretty much right on the money. I look forward to seeing another seminar should you ever come back to town!”
“I really enjoyed the presentation. It was one of the best presentations I have ever been to, the information was great and you have an amazing ability in keeping the audiences attention. I have already taken a lot of what you said in your presentation and used it in my day to day communication with the older generations in my life. You are awesome. Thanks for making the stop in small town Medicine Hat!!!!”
In my ongoing quest to morph into Steve Jobs, I now have my own iPhone app. (It also works hella fine on iPod Touches.)
