Last year Chris Brogan talked about the elements of a good LinkedIn recommendation.  So, this week on The Public Speaker I talk about how to write better LinkedIn recommendations.  Don’t write generic recommendations that have no content or meat to them. Write genuine and sincere recommendations Of course, I have my own thoughts on this.  Here are the highlights but if you’d like to listen to the full details go here :

Thanks to George Chartier (a Federal government speechwriter) for sending this recommendation: “If  you haven’t read Alan Alda’s book, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, (2007, Hutchinson, London ISBN 978-0-091-92106-4), I urge you to look for it. Tags: recommended book It’s in paperback now. The entire book provides excerpts from numerous speeches that Mr.

My colleague Barbara McNichol has just published her new ebook titled Word Trippers .  If you do any type of writing this is a must-have resource which features 300+ Word Trippers compiled by Barbara who started acing grammar and spelling in the 4th grade.  If you ever have trouble with with the notoriously difficult English language, this ebook clearly explains whether to use peak or peek — lay vs.

I’ve just finished reading The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work an enjoyable and uniquely insightful book by Alain de Botton. In In de Botton’s own words, he wrote the book to “shine a spotlight on the working world,” exploring both its beauty and its beastliness. By turning a philosopher’s eye on the intricacies of labor and trade,

I’ve just finished reading The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work an enjoyable and uniquely insightful book by Alain de Botton. In In de Botton’s own words, he wrote the book to “shine a spotlight on the working world,” exploring both its beauty and its beastliness. By turning a philosopher’s eye on the intricacies of labor and trade,

I’ve just finished reading The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work an enjoyable and uniquely insightful book by Alain de Botton. In In de Botton’s own words, he wrote the book to “shine a spotlight on the working world,” exploring both its beauty and its beastliness. By turning a philosopher’s eye on the intricacies of labor and trade,

In general, I do not recommend reading a speech at such a conference, but if you do read, do it in a way that is engaging as demonstrated by Isabel Allende. • Using a prepared script from the lectern (with slides/video) Sylvia Earle (TED Prize winner 2009) . Tony Robbins speaks for a living, and while I do not recommend swearing from the stage, Tony was able to engage a rather skeptical audience at TED in spite of poor visuals. TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations.

don’t recommend trying to scan the twitterstream at the same time as you’re talking. Generally, I wouldn’t recommend using this as it’s highly likely to distract your audience. If you do decide to use a display tool which allows moderation, I recommend having a colleague do this, rather than trying to do it yourself during your presentation. Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel.

Bassler (video) • The Craft of Scientific Presentations by Michael Alley • Trees, maps, and theorems Effective communication for rational minds by Jean-luc Doumont • Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication that Drives Action   by Andrew Abela • Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis   by Stephen Few (new: highly recommende People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics. Now, not every presentation has earth-shattering,

That is, hang out with people with healthy habits, physical and emotional ones. How to live a long, healthy life in one slide Even nine recommendations can be hard to remember, so I simplified the advice down to five in this Keynote slide that capture the essence of the tips from Dan Buettner's good TEDx talk. (Click on image of slide for a larger siz Happy New Year, everyone. I