As a presentations coach, I show archival videos as positive and negative role models to demonstrate what participants should and should not do when they present.

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The folks at Netbase, a company that collates online opinion and sentiment, sent me a couple of graphics on overall reaction and what surprises me is not the positive-negative split, though that is interesting.

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What is the temperature rise, after the effects of both positive and negative feedbacks, from a doubling of atmospheric CO2-e?

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Instead, Facebook feeds any political commentary in status messages into a text analysis software program, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, which determines whether what you said was positive or negative.

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"For obvious reasons, both positive and negative, they didn't want us shouting about what the name of the exact product was, " he says.

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In career management, this means that, rather than being cynical and jumping to the downside or a negative view of what is happening, find a way to assume there is a positive and think about how you can build on the opportunity.

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