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Who Do You Remind Me Of?

How you dress and act (body language) before you begin to speak is sending thousands of messages to your audience. One of the most important thoughts your audience is thinking when they first see you that dramatically impacts the first moments of your presentation is:Who do you remind me of?They...

Keeping an Auditorium Audience Engaged

Pack ‘em in!  Rope off the back rows if you need to, but do whatever it takes to get the audience seated in the middle/front.  The closer you have the audience to one another, the more you can do with them and the more...

Good Private Thinking

"All good public speaking is based on good private thinking."Scott Berkun (from his new book Confessions of a Public Speaker)Get it today to get your 2010 reading started right. Caution: it is a complicated, layered, opinionated, clearly written work. If you are not interested in growing or being challenged as...

You are an Agent of Change

It is said that the amount of energy in the universe is constant. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It is only changed from one form to another. The fat in your body is potential energy waiting to be turned into kinetic energy. A lump of coal is waiting to...

One Way to Help People Believe You (And Believe In You)

"If you don't have confidence in your take, then we don't want to hear it."Jim Rome, Professional Sports Talk GuyPlease visit www.YourNextSpeaker.com to learn more about our leadership keynotes and workshops and our Presentation Coaching services. ...

Fab Five Formula for Your Next Speech's Outline

Five questions to answer as you are preparing your next speech's outline:Who (are you?)Don't spend much time on this, but quickly let me know who you are:Why are you qualified to talk on this topic?What is your style (serious, fun, interactive, etc.)?What is something about you I can personally relate...

Pivotal Public Speaking

Using Computer Presentation Programs effectively

People are tired of worn-out power point presentations! Does this mean we should jettison the technology and go back to the “stone age”, as one person put it, in giving our presentations? No more than we should ban television because of the likes of Jerry Springer and Temptation Island. The...

Add to Your Speaking Revenue as a Professional Emcee

Add to Your Speaking Revenue as a Professional Emcee with Mark Standriff Are you looking for additional sources of income in these difficult financial times? Have you ever considered being an emcee? Marketing yourself as a master of ceremonies not only provides value-added opportunities for potential clients, but also gives you access...

How to avoid distractions

Lisa Braithwaite at SpeakSchmeak has highlighted a vital problem in public speaking - how to avoid distractions, althought she has turned it around and called her post “Keep your focus” - a usful way of looking at it. Distractions don’t have to interfere with your presentation. Instead of perceiving them as...

Make Your Voice Your Number One Asset

Turn Their First Impression into a Lasting Impression. If you are a successful business leader and entrepreneur today, you know how vital it is to have executive level speaking and communication skills. You must be able to motivate or impart crucial information. You must speak clearly and directly. You must be assertive...

Ballet and Public Speaking

At the Speaking Energy: Adventures in Public Speaking blog, Bjorn had compared public speaking to ballet.  He obviously enjoyed the performance, or at least appreciated the energy.  He looks at performance, everyday life and art, giving us, in the process, another way of looking at public speaking.   http://bit.ly/75oFP8...

Public Speaking - How to Close a speech

One of the worst mistakes you can make as a public speaker is talking too long. Not only will you send some folks to never, never land, you will make some of them downright mad. It doesn’t matter if your entire speech was brilliant...

Professionally Speaking

Life Caching

Candid Camera Springwise reports that a wearable camera has been developed in the UK which can document a person’s life. Promising “Memories for Life” the Vicon Revue has been created as an aid for people with memory loss. The device can operate either on a timer—taking photos every 30 seconds—or it...

Book Review: The Backchannel

How to augment your live presentation using social media Effective public speaking is a challenge for many executives. They must prepare interesting content, overcome stage fright and deliver a speech that will hold the audience’s attention. As if that wasn’t difficult enough, they are increasingly likely to find themselves looking out...

Interview: Frauke Schorr - Centered Leadership Coach

In order to gain a competitive edge it is essential for professionals to strive for both professional and personal excellence. Frauke Schorr’s work focuses on professionals who struggle and need outside expertise to bring their careers, businesses, and teams to the next level. As part of her PhD in Organizational Psychology...

SpeakerNet News - a great resource

One of the best, free, resources for speakers is the weekly SpeakerNet News email newsletter sent each Friday to more than 9,000 professional speakers, consultants, trainers, and authors. Each issue features items sent in by the newsletter readers, including: Tips on subjects like sales and marketing, travel, technology, great resources, saving...

Question: How useful is social media for public speakers?

I need your help. On Friday February 12th I’m presenting at the Ragan Speechwriters Conference in Washington, DC. The title my talk is Beyond the Auditorium: Magnifying the Impact of a Speech with Social Media. While I hope some readers of Professionally Speaking will be at the event, I’d like to...

Interview: Phillip Van Hooser - President, National Speakers Association

“We must always remember that the act of speaking professionally is only a part of our individual journeys. It is not a destination.” - Phillip Van Hooser The Evolution of a Professional Speaking Career Since 1988, NSA President Phillip Van Hooser, CSP, CPAE, has spoken, written, coached and consulted on...

Les Posen's Presentation Magic

Why the iPad will change Apple users’ skepticism for its version 1 products

I’m preparing a rather lengthy (even for me) blog post about the iPad which I’ll publish once I complete my Presentation Magic workshop at Macworld next week. Curiously, the dust has yet to settle on the iPad, even though more than a week has passed. Can you recall a product in...

Apple Tablet naysayers: get your heads around the idea it’s not a new form of PC, but another and superior way of interacting with data.

On the eve of the Apple special event, and considerably more information dribbling out from sources that we are looking at a tablet-format device, spare a moment for those naysayers asking why the world “needs” another tablet, when the models before (powered by flavours of Windows) have all but failed...

Who will join Steve Jobs on stage next week? A few educated guesses… perhaps Rupert himself?

I was having lunch last Friday with the guys at Connecting Point, a Melbourne Apple reseller with a large customer roll within the educational sector, from primary (elementary) through to college (university). It also makes sales to individuals, and I have referred a number of switchers to them over the...

Newsflash: Microsoft announces Powerpoint 2010 will be able to run two videos on the one slide at the same time! (Yawn) Watch this demo I made in 2006 with Keynote 3 running nine (yes, nine) videos simultaneously, without dropping a frame.

The official Powerpoint  2010 blog today made an exciting announcement regarding how Powerpoint will handle video in the future. Here’s a screenshot below (I’ve added the red underline to draw your attention to the money quote, click to enlarge): Because Powerpoint 2010 will take advantage of hardware acceleration and DirectX9.0, you...

Augmented books and the Apple tablet: I can hardly wait to create one on Keynote for the tablet

With the extra spare time due to the summer break here in Australia (things get busy again next week), I have been experiencing a “Perfect Storm” of blogging: Intense interest in things electronic via CES 2010 (now history), the headiness of a major Apple product revolution that even has sceptics...

What if Dragon scaled their free iPhone/Pod Touch Search and Dictate apps for the Apple tablet? Joining the dots…

Over the weekend, I noticed almost a dozen application updates waiting for me in the iTunes App store for my iPhone 3G. Two of those were from Dragon, firstly its Dragon Search App (below): and also for its Dictate App. (below): The two key improvement cited for both were: Support for the iPod...

Six Minutes: A Public Speaking and Presentation Skills blog

Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-02-06]

Twice each month, Six Minutes weekend reviews bring you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere. Please share them with anyone you feel would benefit from the tips and techniques. This review features topics including: recently released public speaking books; storytelling and details; remedies for voice malfunctions; handling hecklers; thanking the audience; cartoons in...

Psst! Readers’ Speaking Confessions and Lessons

Have you ever fainted in mid-sentence? Have you ever shown up for a 1-hour seminar only to be told you had to give it eight times in a row? Have you ever had your blouse pop open while speaking? These were just a few of the confessions shared by Six Minutes readers in...

What is Ethos and Why is it Critical for Speakers?

Is your audience listening even before you speak your first words? Do they have high expectations? Are they prepared to be convinced by what you have to say? If not, you are suffering from poor ethos. The first article in the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos series introduced these core concepts for speakers. In this article,...

Win a Book! Share Your Public Speaking Confessions

Last week, we reviewed Scott Berkun’s latest book, Confessions of a Public Speaker. I asked Sara Peyton over at O’Reilly (the book publisher) for a few copies for Six Minutes readers, and she kindly agreed. Now, you can win one of three copies by sharing your own public speaking confessions! What speaking lesson...

Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking

2300 years ago, Aristotle wrote down the secret to being a persuasive speaker, the secret which forms the basis for nearly every public speaking book written since then. Do you know the secret? If you don’t, you might be wondering what a 2300-year-old theory has to do with public speaking in the...

Book Review: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Scott Berkun)

Confessions of a Public Speaker is a highly entertaining and insightful insider’s view of public speaking, with value for speakers of all levels. This article is the latest of a series of public speaking book reviews here on Six Minutes. What’s Inside? The Price What I Loved How could it be better? What Others Think Verdict What’s Inside? ...

Can You Hear Me Up the Back?

10 Presentation Tips From Steve Jobs’ iPad Launch

Edited launch video. Full version (1hr 20min) here. Steve Jobs is rightly regarded as a master of the presentation universe. How many presentations get that level of global PR hype, both before and after the event? Here are 10 lessons to draw from the iPad launch speech: 1.    Open with an attention-grabbing  amazing...

Shock Study: Fonts Are Actually Really Important

“Please. That font doesn’t match those shoes.” For years, people in black clothes and matching square-frame glasses have told you that font choice is important for successful communication. But how important are fonts, really? Maybe that’s just the designer’s opinion, rather than a scientifically proven fact. After all, communication is fertile territory...

Graphic Tips: Making Text Clearer On Photos

The design guys and I are working on a food packaging project at the moment. It’s quite a fiddly task. There’s a Dan Brown novel’s worth of legal mandatories to fit on each box, much of it warnings about the two greatest threats to Western civilisation: nuts and crustaceans. DANGER THIS...

Revolutionary New Touch-Screen Projector

If you’re looking for the future of presentation technology, you only need look as far as CSI Miami and its futuristic rainbow-lit headquarters. That’s where you’ll find image scanners that can query a database of all the left-handed golf gloves in Florida, and bring up a photo and address of each...

Five Things To Learn From Heston Blumenthal: Part 2

What can you learn about presentations from a TV chef who puts vibrators into a giant, luminescent jelly to make it wiggle as it arrives at the table? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Today, the second half of what presenters can learn from chef Heston Blumenthal. 3. A Sense Of...

Five Things To Learn From Heston Blumenthal: Part 1

Welcome back to 2010, folks. Been away from the blog longer than expected, but that’s probably a good thing. At this time of year I always feel sorry for Americans, who only get about three days leave a year.  Holiday deprivation can often lead to a blinkered, captive-animal approach to work, shying...

The Accidental Communicator

The Hassle Of Hecklers

Just What Is A Heckler Anyway? Just imagine your next presentation. You’ve studied your audience, researched your topic, created a speech, and practiced, practiced, practiced. You take the stage and start to smoothly deliver your speech. Just a few minutes into your speech, you become aware of someone, gasp, talking. We’re...

What’s More Important: What You Say Or Who Is Saying It?

So here’s a question for you to ponder: what is more important – the words that you say or how you say them? This is one of the classic questions that gets asked about public speaking. Could you pick up a fantastically written speech and deliver it in a way...

You CAN Learn To Speak Like President Obama

Who do you think is the greatest communicator of all time? For most of us, we’d pick someone who has lived in the last 100 years because that’s pretty much all that we know. We’ve had some great ones in this time period: Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, etc. However,...

It’s Amazing What A Speaker Can Learn By Watching YouTube

Just how does one become a better public speaker? I mean let’s be serious here, you do want to get better, don’t you? Pretty much any book that you read on the subject or class that you attend in order to build up your skills will tell you the same...

10 Professional Speaking Tips That You Need To Know

Editor’s Note: This article has been selected to be included in Angela DeFinis’ “Public Speaking And The New Year” Blog Carnival. This Carnival can be found online at: http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/public-speaking-and-the-new-year/ Happy New Year! As we start yet another a new year, you may be asking yourself what is the best way for...

Happy New Year! (I’m Still On Vacation…)

It’s still the holiday season and I’m still on vacation! This is the time of the year that we all make plans for what we want to accomplish in the upcoming year. This time around, take your time and give some thought to what you can do to make this your...

My Toastmasters Blog

The Toastmasters Trap

Toastmasters International has been the most influential organization in my personal and professional development. Over the years I have been a member, I have become more confident, more action orientated, and better able to accomplish the goals I have established for myself. With that being said, there is one trap...

It’s Not the Right Time

I have noticed a disturbing trend in the Toastmasters clubs that I am active. A new member will join, give a speech or two, and then send an e-mail that says, “I am sorry, but I just don’t have the time for Toastmasters anymore.” The irony of these e-mails is that...

Vote for Chris to Speak at SXSW

I Have a Dream I dream of traveling the world to speak to audiences about technology, leadership, and personal development. The past five years, I have worked hard at becoming an excellent speaker. However, being a great speaker is only part of the equation. What it Takes to be a Professional Speaker In...

Club Coaches: Life Support For Dying Toastmaster Clubs

Today’s guest post is from Bob Jensen, a fellow Champions’ EDGE Member. In his post, Bob discusses Club Coaches and how a coach can assist struggling Toastmasters clubs. Bob’s article is a great overview of the club coach program and I am grateful for his contribution. Toastmasters International recognizes that there...

An Engaging Opening is Necessary for Long Presentations

Sitting in a training class, I found myself starting to wonder about the point of the class. We had an agenda, workbooks, and trainers but the point was slipping away. You could see the attention of the audience slip and the trainers begin to go on to autopilot. What was...

How Are You Filling Roles?

If you are like most Toastmasters, you get a copy of the agenda for the next meeting and take whatever open role that you are comfortable. For many Toastmasters, that means you will be the timer, grammarian, or ah counter. Those roles are important on the agenda, but they don’t...

Nick Morgan - Public Speaking Advice and Commentary

Basic Principles of Persuasive Rhetoric – 1

Principle I: Persuasive rhetoric is about phrasing your arguments so that your listeners can hear them. I’m going to do a series of blogs on persuasive content – aka rhetoric – to match the series I just finished on nonverbal......

Basic principles of nonverbal communication – 10

Principle X: Authenticity and charisma derive from becoming open, connected, passionate and listening with and to your audience. Authenticity comes from aligning your content – the things you say – with your nonverbal communication – your body language. Another way......

Basic Principles of Nonverbal Communication – 9

Principle IX: To be perceived as an authentic public person, you must align your nonverbal and verbal ‘conversations’. This means aligning your emotional intent with your conscious thought. Most of us in the work world spend a good deal of......

Basic Principles of Nonverbal Communications – 8

Principle VIII: To control the second conversation, you must focus on your emotional intent rather than conscious awareness. As I’ve explored in earlier blogs, the paradox of controlling your body language comes when you try to use conscious thought to......

From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘I don’t quit’ -- a rhetorical analysis of President Obama's State of the Union speech

President Obama gave his first official State of the Union address last night. He gave a similar speech at a similar time last year, but he had just taken office, so the White House did not call that one a......

Basic principles of nonverbal communication – 7

Principle VII: To master the ‘second conversation’, you must make yourself aware of your own unconscious behavior and that of others. Our brains analyze and react to a constant stream of environmental cues 24/7 in order to keep us alive......

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Great Public Speaking – Right in Your Own Backyard

One of the many reasons why I enjoy living in the Bay Area is the seemingly endless opportunities to hear good speakers. I am a member of Left Coast Writers (LCW), and recently attended our monthly Literary Salon held at Book Passage Independent bookstore in Corte Madera, CA. Under the...

Public Speaking and the New Year

For many, 2009 was a struggle. Fortunately, the worst of the economic downturn seems to have passed. In its wake, many people were left wondering what had just happened and what they could have done differently. But as we enter the new calendar year, most of us switch from reflection...

Content Tips: How Much is Too Much?

I’ve been working with a group of technical professionals this week and am running into a familiar techie issue. My technical guys love monologue. And the longer, more data packed and deeply obscure the better. They make the case that if they are speaking to a technical audience, a complex...

Sorry to have to ask. Will you please stop apologizing?

I recently had lunch with a friend who I haven’t seen in a long time. It was a wonderful reunion and great to catch up with her. As we sat and talked I realized that my friend spent a great deal of time apologizing. Once I heard this pattern emerge...

Dying to be a Public Speaker?

I got a call today from a woman who owns a bakery that specializes in selling gluten free products—cookies, biscotti, scones and other wonderful wheat free foods. She has a good niche market but wants to grow her business—and someone told her to look into public speaking as an avenue...

Speaking of Telling Stories in the Executive Suite

I have been working with a client in our Executive Immersion program and am once again reminded of the critical role that stories play in executive effectiveness.  My client is working hard to develop a communication approach that balances IQ and EQ—that is, using intellectual, analytical, problem solving tactics combined...

Sticky Slides

Browsing for books about design

The Internet and the place I live (Israel) have cut me off of those great large book stores where you can browse endlessly for books you did not know you missed. Presentation blogs (this one included) often talk about the same limited set of books about public speaking and presentation design....

The entire Jobs' iPad speech in 180s: passion

Presenting is not a casual discussion, it is a performance. When you are not passionate about what you are presenting yourself, do not expect your audience to be. This short video compilation of Steve Jobs' iPad launch speech shows how he packed his talk with enthusiasm. Something to learn from,...

You should follow this blog

Mark Suster is a venture capitalist (VC) who is quietly building one of the world's most-read blogs about entrepreneurship and VC investing. I suspect most people who read my blog subscribe to other blogs in areas such as (graphics) design and public speaking. Most of these blogs (including this one),...

Chart concept - word find

The concept of this ad for a dental care product can be very useful for a slide conveying "solution x helps you see the forest through the trees". It is a bit tedious to generate rows of random words, but the end result will be effective.A larger image can be...

"Why are TED presentations so polished?"

This question was asked by David Semaria on Mark Suster's excellent blog "Both sides of the table", a must read for anyone who needs to pitch to VCs. Here is my take on the question why TED presentations are so "polished": A tough pre-selection: you need an interesting story even before the...

Let your audience's brain fill in the missing pieces

Highly graphic and gruesome ads that should stop you from smoking or driving dangerously are not only not pleasant to look at, but also often fail to achieve their objective (according to books like "Influence"). This U.K. "wear your seat belt" ad shows that you can communicate these messages in a...

PRESENTability with DFG

Creative ad – A Bus Stop with a Tuque

A bus stop wearing a tuque!! I saw one on twitpic today, I know it is cold in Quebec City (I leave there), but this is really funny. It is real creativity. Thanks to @LaGeeke for the information and the picture. As you can see the tuque is related to the milk ad....

Conseils de Nicolas Roberge pour les gestionnaires en TI face aux médias sociaux

This post is only available in French Joueur très actif des médias sociaux de la région de Québec (et individu extrêmement sympathique), Nicolas Roberge a contribué à l’article du journal Les Affaires intitulé : Quatre conseils aux gestionnaires TI indécis face aux médias sociaux La version en ligne sur le site LesAffaires.com ayant...

How to respect allowed time

A common problem in public speaking is having too much materiel to present and not enough time. As a consequence, speakers take more time than allowed. It annoyed the audience and put pressure on the following speakers and on the organization. How can you avoid doing this? I was a guest...

3 Presentation Tips – Interview sneak peek

English Français I am not sure it was a good idea to accept this interview. While I was driving, ideas where popping in my head. How is it possible to have something to say to fill 25 min? Will I be interesting? You know, that kind of thing. It took less than 2 minutes...

World Premiere Tomorrow – I will be Interviewed

Tomorrow, I will live a premiere. I will be Interviewed. Davender Gupta, founder of The Visioneering Institute, is hosting a Web radio once a  week. He interviews people about passion and success. I have the pleasure to be his next guess. We record the interview tomorrow (13 of February January) and the...

Speaking Pro Central

Sex Tape: Is Andrew Young Hedging?

What game is Andrew Young playing now?  0160; In response to a contempt of court charge for refusing to hand over all copies of the alleged Edwards-Hunter sex tape, Young handed over a duplicate today, reports Andy Barr in Politico.com.  0160; Young is retaining the master...

Beyond Bullet Points: Interview with Nancy Duarte

If you’re interested in presentation design, you’ve heard of Cliff Atkinson . His best-selling book, Beyond Bullet Points , has inspired many people to break away from the traditionally bullet-heavy presentation format. His book has also inspired a blog, to which Meryl Evans is a...

Eye can't see you

Waiting with my husband in the emergency room this morning (he's okay), I noticed three signs on the wall of the exam room, typed on 8 1/2" x 11" paper in 12- to 14-point font. They were placed opposite the bed. One sign read, "Our Promise to You;" the...

Write less, Sell more

Author and lawyer John Grisham has a new book of stories out - "Ford County."  quot;  He dedicates the book to Bobby Moak.  0160; Beneath that attribution, Grisham explains that after he published "A Time to Kill,"  he "soon learned the painful lesson that selling books was far more difficult...

Great Public Speaking Media Training

I make no outbound cold calls whatsoever . I can not even stand the thought of it. One of my main sources of bookings comes from stories placed by me or about me in the media and from radio and TV appearances. I can notBrought to you by: Speaking Pro...

Great Public Speaking – Right in Your Own Backyard

One of the many reasons why I enjoy living in the Bay Area is the seemingly endless opportunities to hear good speakers. I am a member of Left Coast Writers (LCW), and recently attended our monthly Literary Salon held at Book Passage Independent ...

Professionally Speaking...

Never Read a Speech...Badly

I'm the first one to advise against reading a speech. It usually is tricky to maintain decent eye contact, a struggle to sound authentic, challenging to create any kind of connection with the audience...and just plain boring to listen to.......

Presentation Tip: Get a Voice Coach

"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished..." Margaret Atwood In our everyday lives, we take our voices for granted. We don't think about producing sound. When we open our mouths to speak, we are confident that sound......

Presentation Resolutions: Embrace Technology

Although we only have three hundred and forty-four days left in 2010, I, for one, don't think it's too late to create some New Year's resolutions for the year. And for those of us who want to take our presentations......

Presentation Skills for Executives

Good presentation skills are good presentation skills, no matter what position or title you hold...right? Well, yes...and no. While it's certainly true that there are many foundational best practices for effective presentations that are applicable for everyone, once you reach......

Presentations: 5 Boring Behaviors and How to Fix Them

I'm pretty sure that no one sets out to give a boring presentation. Yet why do so many presentations end up that way? There are a number of classic presentation behaviors that will send you off the charts on the......

A Holiday Presentation Poem

I'm participating in Angela DeFinis' Blog Carnival on Public Speaking and the Holidays. Head on over to check out other authors' tips and insights. 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the hall the well-rehearsed speaker kept her audience......

The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

The Next Big Primary Matches Two Big Stars in the Lone Star State -- By: Jim Geraghty

With Illinois’s primaries settled -- well, sort of -- the next big one on the calendar is less than a month away, March 2, in Texas. Oh, how I dread covering this primary, and how I look forward to its completion. For the better part of a year now, I’ve gotten daily e-mails...

Treating a Residency Comment as a Bigger Deal Than the D.C. Snownami -- By: Jim Geraghty

Recently GOP California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner called the FBI over routine backroom comments by Mike Murphy, an aide to his rival, Meg Whitman.Now Poizner's campaign is taking issue with a line in Whitman's new ad, in which the former eBay CEO says “the state is in the worst shape that I’ve seen...

Wait, He's From Massachusetts. We Have to Use a 'D', Right? -- By: Jim Geraghty

A reader sends in a photo of the way their local television news identified the newest member of the U.S. Senate, wondering if some media outlets just ran out of the letter "R" to identify lawmakers. Look, if calling Scott Brown a Democrat helps these guys cope with the loss of...

Discouraged Workers, as Illustrated by Little Plastic Figures -- By: Jim Geraghty

Here's the number that jumped out at me in the new unemployment numbers: There were 1.1 million discouraged workers in January. That number had been 929,000 in December. Earlier in the week, I made a short video, noting the rise in these "discouraged workers" who don't show up in the official...

Maybe This Is a Deliberate Approach of 'Strategic Ambiguity' -- By: Jim Geraghty

From this Morning's Jolt, making its way to you through this system of tubes we call the Internet: A White House Rallying Cry of . . . ‘Surrender’? Some very strange messages are coming from the president himself on health care. At a DNC fundraiser Thursday night, he said, “If Congress decides...

Meanwhile, in Florida's Other Big Statewide Race . . . -- By: Jim Geraghty

There are certain races that slide from my attention because I strongly suspect the Republican candidate is doing fine, and a GOP seat is going to stay in GOP hands. There's been a lot of discussion of the Florida Senate race, particularly the GOP primary, but less about the governor's...

Persuasions Blog Public Speaking, Persuasive Speech Tips, Word Illustrations, Latest Public Speaking News and Speechmastery Updates

Feb 5, The Persuasive Speech Process and How to Persuade

Learn what Persuasive Speech is, is not, and the essentials of how to master it in public speaking....

Feb 5, Selling Basics: What are the Selling Basics

Selling basics: What do you need to know?...

Feb 2, Dress and Grooming Basics: What Public Speakers Need to Know

Dress and grooming basics: What do you need to know as a public speaker?...

Feb 2, Different Types of Communication: What do You Need to Know?

Different types of communication: What are they? What do I need to know?...

Feb 2, Dress and Grooming for Public Speaker

Dress and grooming: How should public speakers dress to improve their public speaking....

Feb 1, Average Number of Words Spoken by Men and Women Use

Average number of words spoken: how many do men and women use daily?...

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