This has been well documented by Edward Tufte and others, and I'll personally confirm that with my past 30 years experience in the communication and speaking business. It is cognitive dissonance in action. •    Think of the problem with PowerPoint presentations filled with text, (also well documented in this blog and Presentation Zen and others. ) We’ve all had the sad but common experience of reading ahead, as the speaker says, “Now stay with me.” Business speakers (and leaders, keynoters, politicians, Pastors and, well, everyone…) need to be aware that like it or not, Twitter is coming to their speaking experience. Be Aware, and Beware!

But when that document was completed, on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people". Photo credit: Larry Murphy, University of Texas at Austin News and Information Service.) Buy book ...Tags: 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.