Tag: Detritus

PowerPoint: A Cautionary Tale

With SGF 2011 fast approaching, I’m sure I’m not the only speaker  hard at work preparing my PowerPoint presentations.  I can remember the old days when speakers brought actual slide trays full of film slides.  I don’t miss the expense of those slides or the amount of room they took in my suitcase, and it […]

Greatest Hits of 2010

I should have posted this a couple weeks ago, but I’ve been hard at work writing papers for SAS Global Forum (more about that in future posts!). These were the popular posts and pages on AvocetSolutions.com in 2010. 1) What can I use SAS for? 2) Top 10 Reasons to Use SAS Enterprise Guide 3) […]

SAS in the News

What do social networking, SAS, and Saddam Hussein’s chauffeur have in common? The article, “Untangling the Social Web,” in the newest issue of Economist magazine has given SAS some nice free PR. I wonder if I’m an “influencer?” I wonder how long it will take for this posting to show up in SAS Institute’s own […]