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Thursday, August 13, 2009
I’ve been very busy this summer! You can’t tell by the postings because there haven’t been any!! Because I’ve spent a good portion of my time writing THE MOST comprehensive learning package on interviewing skills. I’m very excited about this. The short audio book from Macmillan will be out in October 2009.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with something like this. An official “Twitter policy&#. Well, it’s not exactly that, but it is a policy about disseminating information to “anonymous third parties&#. copied the policy below. I suspect others will be showing up very soon, if they haven’t already. Here it is.
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
How to Run an Effective and Productive Meeting This week on the Public Speaker I talk about how to plan and deliver effective and productive business meetings. Here’s a quick summary, but you can listen to the episode here. It’s less than 10 minutes.) Know and state the purpose of your meeting. Meetings are good for coming [.].
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
For those that have attended my professional networking seminars you’ve already heard many of my ideas on how to start a conversation and for those that haven’t yet attended I created the list below. In addition, you can listen to an the very first episode of my new show that I create for Macmillan. The name of [.].
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Friday, February 13, 2009
After my seminars people come up to ask questions they don’t want to ask publicly. Without a doubt the most common “private&# question I get is about accents. People want to know how they can reduce their accents. For me, it’s not about reducing an accent, it’s about acquiring accent options. So you can turn on [.].
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
I’ve been very busy this summer! You can’t tell by the postings because there haven’t been any!! Because I’ve spent a good portion of my time writing THE MOST comprehensive learning package on interviewing skills. I’m very excited about this. The short audio book from Macmillan will be out in October 2009.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with something like this. An official “Twitter policy&#. Well, it’s not exactly that, but it is a policy about disseminating information to “anonymous third parties&#. copied the policy below. I suspect others will be showing up very soon, if they haven’t already. Here it is.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Recently, I received an email from one of my online public speaking workshop participants. She wrote, “I am interviewing for a position and I am deeply pregnant. Should I somehow mention this just before my job talk? From one point of view, it sounds unprofessional. On the other hand, some people might focus more on the
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Ellen Finkelstein has organized a series of webinar presentations with a great line up of presenters. And not only will you not have any travel and accommodation costs, the webinars themselves are free! To sign up for the webinars go to this webpage: Outstanding Presentations Workshop. Here’s the schedule for the webinars. Speaker. Times.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Enthusiasm is a necessary qualification for effective speaking. When you show enthusiasm it is contagious. The enjoyment and knowledge that is demonstrated for your subject will result in increased listener enjoyment and your speech being more convincing. The feeling of excitement must come through as you deliver. Have an active interest in people.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
My congratulations to Mike Folie (a speechwriting seminar alum) and Tim Becker, who announced that their spec screenplay, THEY SHOOT WEDDINGS, DON’T THEY?, is one of 35 finalists in the Final Draft Big Break Scriptwriting Contest. This is quite an honor … more than 3,500 entries were submitted from around the world.Go
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Monday, May 11, 2009
TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some are for even less time such as 3- and 6-minute slots). Ben Saunders ). Thou Shalt Tell a Story. Although Dr.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Seven principles for changing your perception Kanso (??) Fukinsei (???) Shizen (??)
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Most people do not really think about design and designers, let alone think of themselves as designers. But what, if anything, can regular people — teachers, students, business people of all types — learn from designers and from thinking like a designer? And what of more specialized professions? believe there is. 1) Embrace constraints.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work. The research is the work of Chris Atherton , a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare. The research. Sparse slides.
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