Texting is preferred by most of my friends and acquaintances, and actually speaking seems too informal for business associates.  One where the presenter has spent hours upon hours practicing, editing, and practicing some more until they know it by heart.  presentation like I just described takes time.  It takes lots of time, practice, and hard work.   We don't all have the luxury of time (or resources), but when it matters so much I'm not sure when it happened, but it was definitely within my lifetime.  As technology began to expand and morph at a mind boggling

If you read my work even on a semi-regular basis, you'll know that I hardly ever speak from a pedestal and never put other people's work down.  One great way to use original (and often free) images is on Flickr , via CompFight .  Flickr is always my first stop to find imagery, although it's not rare for me to end up finding the image I'm looking for on iStock. Recently I stumbled upon a 2007 blog post from Neil Patel at QuickSprout.com .  It was entitled "The Lazy Man's Way to Building a Great PowerPoint Presentation."   I have to say, I found myself disagreeing

From the interview: "I speak quite a lot on courage , because I think it is the most important of all the virtues...Without Without courage you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently." "[I]f people are too dour, I speak on humor , because I never trust people who don't laugh!" "If there has been some unfair play, if someone has been mishandled, and there is some reason for outcry, I try to speak to that." ( Photo of Angelou speaking at Wake Forest University from Flickr by wacko_-) ...Tags: Maya Angelou's a staple on the college campus lecture circuit, and in this article she describes how she calibrates her speeches by thinking about the mood of the audience as well as what she can bring that will inspire them, something every thoughtful speaker should do.