With the growth in Print on Demand (POD), public speakers, seminar leaders, consultants, technical trainers, financial planners, real estate agents, lawyers, nutritionists and fitness experts, cooks and chefs, people who have lived interesting, and not so interesting, lives, are self-publishing non-fiction books like never before. MORE >>

One of my goals for 2009 is to develop a unique small business speaking presentation focused on the web, online reputation, new media, etc. By expressing my unique point of view in an entertaining manner, I caught the attention of meeting planners who assumed I would be a good speaker. And now, I’m a decently paid speaker. Do it. MORE >>

Despite what you may read elsewhere, the most important person at your next speaking engagement is not the CEO, the meeting planner, the audience or even that one person whose life you might change forever. He has twice appeared in the finals of the Toastmasters Championship of Public speaking, finishing 3rd in the world in 2006. It's YOU. MORE >>

Others bemoan the emergence of a new educational economy that threatens to convert students into nomadic consumers of information and faculty into "automatic professor machines" [ Winner 2009 ]. Winner 2009 Winner, Langdon. Langdon Winners Homepage [Website] 2008 [cited January 20 2009]. As a result, spillage was reduced by 80%. MORE >>

Meeting planners and conference organizers are also using online community tools to help conference attendees network both pre and post-event. She blogs at Speaking about Presenting and has written a free eBook “ How to Present with Twitter and Other Backchannels.&# Follow her on Twitter. There’s also an extra benefit. Great tips. MORE >>