I've pointed you to Andrew Dlugan's blog before, but today I want to mention his " Week in Review " Saturday posts that gather interesting content from around the public speaking blogosphere and plops them down all in one place. don't know how he has the time to do all of that screening, but let's just be thankful that he does!

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She was named Washington Women in Public Relations' Washington PR Woman of the Year in 2002, recognizing her career achievements and her community activism. Janet's worked in many fields, but one reason she's here to speak to us today is to share her long-standing interest in microfinance for women's economic advancement. My start?

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A speech can be more complicated to write and deliver than a presentation - not because it's inherently a more difficult kind of public speaking, but because the speaker perceives it differently. Speak from the heart, not from the head. So the speaker starts to think the speech must be very proper and stuffy and eloquent.

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Add to these devices like alliteration, repetition, imagery and anecdotes, and you have the basic building blocks of the language of public speaking. At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Education, education and education.

I just trained a group of nearly 100 scientists in speaker skills and message development for public audiences, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Tags: workshops women and public speaking speaker training audience issues public speaking tips The best technique?

And I'm the first to admit that I hate absolute rules about public speaking. Only speak when you are looking at the audience. Of course, you must look down to find your next idea or point, but don't speak while you're doing it. Tags: Quick Fixes Pet Peeves Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies

Most of us really hate it when a speaker reads from her PowerPoint slides, but we may not know exactly why (besides the fact that she keeps her back to us the whole time and speaks like a robot). When we read, we are subvocalizing; that is, we are speaking the words in our heads. More on PowerPoint. It's as simple as that.