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Sunday, December 30, 2007
I saw this search term in my keyword stats, and thought, "How delicious! Someone wants to know how to pronounce my name!" Mispronunciation of my name has been a lifelong annoyance, and the reason that I make an extra effort to get other people's names right. Sometimes people are really trying, but a lot of the time, they just butcher it without even making an effort.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
DarrenBarefoot.com Contact Jobs Speaking About Home September 3rd, 2007 Filed under: Mixed Bag , Technology , The Arts 71 Comments » Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint. Entertain your audience, and they’ll
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Monday, April 7, 2008
How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « A Brief History of Mine | Main | Resolution Assistance » December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. The symptoms of Ménière’s include
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Read More] Tracked on February 26, 2006 at 11:39 PM » The SES
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
There is an add-in to do this with PowerPoint 2007 called Slide Tweet , but you need Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Tools for Office. You can, of course, monitor the reaction to your presentation through your normal twitter client or any number of twitter search applications. You put in a search term at the bottom of the slide and it pulls in the most recent tweets with that term. 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
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
You can search speeches by the name of the speaker as well as by the year in which the speech occurred ; additional databases include Nobel lectures and the top 100 speeches. Looking for inspiration from a gifted woman speaker? Check out Gifts of Speech , a database of women's speeches that goes back to the 19th century. You'll find Congressional testimony,
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
During a Google programming flux this month, this little blog was momentarily at the top of the search heap for that word. Here is the picture -- titled "Paranoia" -- that Google deemed an appropriate result for the "motivational" search. But who searches for motivational speakers, really? Honestly. I
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
We're delighted that so many visitors to this blog have come via searches for "Henrietta Bell Wells" in the movie's wake.
...Tags: Washington Post movie critic Stephen Hunter raves here about 'The Great Debaters,' the film that offers a fictionalized account of the Wiley College debate team. Hunter especially notes the performance of Junee Smollet , who plays a character based on Henrietta Bell Wells , the lone woman speaker on the debate team: ...the
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
just ran across your site on a Google search of the keywords 'thank the audience'. I got a couple of e-mails the other day from Grant Bjornson, president of the Lindsay Toastmasters in Canada, that reminded me of the issue about thanking your audience . "Hello Hello Lisa, You have a super website and the ideas work.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Search on women and public speaking -- or ask your network about eloquent women, as we did recently on Linked In -- and Barbara Jordan's name always seems to come up more than once. For many who heard her in the 1960s and 70s, it's her voice that still resonates--and her ability to put simply some of the most complex ideas in democracy. She's another barrier-breaker: the first African-American since Reconstruction to be elected to the Texas Senate, the first female African-American from the South to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first woman--and
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