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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
He holds two Guinness World Records: one for having created and recorded 146 different character voices for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and one for occupying the first six places in the Top Ten Audio Books of America and Canada 2005. Rowling's story. In my opinion, EVERY speaker needs to listen to one of Jim's Harry Potter books.
 
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
0160; It has touches of humor and irony, some humility from the famous person invited to hold forth for the benefit of the new grads, and the requisite dollop of good advice.  A reader was kind enough to send me a link to J. Rowling’s commencement address to Harvard in 2008 and ask what I thought of her performance.  0160; J.
 
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
It is okay to hold an index card with your bullet points during the real speech to keep you on track. This post originally appears as a guest post on the Weddingistas blog. Being chosen as a groom’s Best Man or a bride’s Maid of Honor is truly an honor (as the name implies). Image: Robert and Kathleen Photography. However, they weren’t there.
 

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In THE NEW YORK TIMES today, Benedict Carey surveys all the terms applied to that state of being when the center cannot hold.  quot;  No longer could I hold down who I was with careerism, ideology, and even writing. 0160; They range from "nervous breakdown" to "burnout." 
In the second half of '09, newsstand copies of VOGUE were down 15.1%.  0160; During the same timeframe, those of VANITY FAIR were up. Could we women be rebelling about being told how to look?  0160; VOGUE never was focused on real women, like Dove soap has been.  0160; It might have to pay dearly for that.  
The blame game has started.  0160; WIRED's troubles, reports  Ryan Tate in GAWKER, are being blamed on its head Christopher Anderson.  0160; Instead of pushing ads, which have been going down down down, Anderson has been focused on hawking his books and delivering keynote addresses.  0160; I wasn't impressed. 
Holding back comment, then speaking with care, can hold great persuasive power, as we've seen this month with Caroline Kennedy's New York Times op-ed piece endorsing Barack Obama for president. Those who dread speaking often use "eloquent" to describe those for whom words come easily, even too easily.
Although it's been out there a while, Andrew Young's THE POLITICIAN is still selling well.  0160; Tonight on Amazon.com, it's at #481 , which is excellent. Young confirms that promoting a book is 90% of the new book game.  0160; The marketplace is glutted with books.  0160; Also, self-publishing makes that easier. 
My personal take is that although purposeful pacing can work as a gimmick or for short segments of frenetic energy, stillness holds up better with time. Clint Eastwood, speaking about how to act on camera said, "Don't just do something - stand there." Eddie Murphy told Chris Rock to pace the stage like a panther during his standup routines.
0160; Hold the feeling.  another help-wanted  requiring "passionate" such-and-such.  0160; Another case of lemmings or group think?  0160; After all, in the writing business we are looking for results.  0160; End of story.  0160; We want posts on our digital sites which boost metrics. 
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. “Two pages or less, dammit!&#. Our Paris correspondent, John, writes in with an ancestor of Pete’s Law , the replacement of all PowerPoint with a Word document no more than 2 pages long. I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.
She teaches women how to move beyond the fears, doubts and anxieties that are holding them back from achieving their desires so they can become the woman they want to be. Are you afraid to say out loud what you really want to do with your life? was laid off on July 13, 2001. People who move past their fears are powerful, inspiring people!
An arctic blast swept through McLean, Virginia, where USA TODAY, owned by Gannett, is based.  0160; That's because the 1500 employees fear for their future at a paper which suffered 14% drop in circulation, reports GANNETT BLOG.  0160; Toward the end of that meeting he mentioned that layoffs could be part of that change.