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Monday, March 15, 2010
Tags: Preparation Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Public Speaking Anxiety The Business of Speaking Taking Risks Entertainer In the documentary, "Comedian," Jerry Seinfeld has decided to scrap all his previous material from decades of success as a standup comedian and TV star, and start over with a new standup act. This film shows the challenges of this monumentally successful performer as he makes his rounds from comedy club to comedy club, trying out first five minutes of material, then ten, then twenty, attempting to work his way up to a full hour of material worthy of a one-man
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Friday, March 12, 2010
It's called "acting" -- and you may have heard that many audiences find a good performance highly entertaining and enriching. Say you're giving a live presentation to a large audience. And let's say this is not something you do on a regular basis. You might be a little nervous about your presentation, so you turn to friends or the internet for some public speaking advice.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
A Powerful, Portable, Flexible, Connected, Social, and Cool Information and Entertainment Device for the 21st Century
And, since the days of portable cassette players and the Sony Discman, we also want to take our entertainment with us as well. But, now the definition of entertainment is much broader and includes games, movies, books, and magazines. Once Again, Steve Jobs Gets His Timing Just About Right with the iPad.
Timing is everything.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Singers often talk between songs, telling stories about their inspiration, or just entertaining the crowd. Tags: Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Entertainer I mentioned last week that we saw Rufus Wainwright on Thursday night. Julianna Raye was the opening performer, singing a bossa nova-inspired set from her new CD. Sometimes a
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tags: Entertainer In a previous post, I wrote about resting on your laurels , that thing people do when they feel they've reached the pinnacle of success and decide they no longer have to make an effort. That post was about Michael Phelps , a phenomenal swimmer who, after breaking several US and world records and winning seven medals at the 2004 Olympics, went on to win all of his events in the Olympic trials and break additional world records.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Congratulations to Barry Whetstine for his winning submission for the Animation for Entertainment contest. He says, "I teach a workshop that provides tools for people seeking career direction. They may have been laid off, under-employed or looking for a career change but have no idea how to determine what they want to become, thus the slide attached. As you will see the slide utilizes
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
0160; A new entity is created: Comcast Entertainment Group. GE got lucky. 0160; It unloaded 51% piece of its old-economy/old-technology holdings on Comcast. 0160; That bundle is NBCU. 0160; But this could turn out to be as jinxed at AOL-Time Warner.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
An American sport is watching the ship go down. 0160; That version of the Titanic could be Tiger Woods's career or 2 girls delivering the news everyone already knows through a medium no one cares about. 0160; The watching, as in today's coverage of Diane Sawyer's first night on ABC, is all about hoping to be there to catch signs of the slow-motion breaking of the ship apart, then into pieces.
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Tags: Stories Entertainer "Everything I do is story-driven and therefore stories, and therefore what people are singing about, is the thing that, for me, makes a performance." ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber, on American Idol
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Tags: General Comments Entertainer "I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win." ~ Leonard Cohen
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Tags: General Comments Entertainer We could say something similar about speakers. . . Knowing all the rules can make you a decent speaker, but knowing which rules to break - and how - can make you an outstanding and memorable speaker. Personally, I'm against the "no ums and uhs" rule.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Tags: General Comments Entertainer Shyness is nice and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life You'd like to Shyness is nice and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life You'd like to So, if there's something you'd like to try If there's something you'd like to try Ask me I won't say no, how could I? Coyness is nice, and Coyness can stop you From saying all the things in Life you'd like to So, if there's something you'd like to try If there's something you'd like to try Ask me I won't say no, how could I?
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tags: Public Speaking Anxiety Entertainer In an interview on Conan O'Brien, where Chris Farley has taken the stage in the character of Matt Foley, the "motivational speaker" from Saturday Night Live, the following exchange takes place. Conan: "The falling down helps, right? Always gets a laugh."
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