I've taken to creating blog posts with useful links after my major addresses-- they become the "handout" and the context, all in one. Who watches: With a webcam on a laptop, a cellphone or a Flip camera or other ultralight camcorder, your audience can record and upload your remarks within minutes--or choose to livestream it. Speakers who address audiences with "just between us in this room" remarks, beware. And for how long: The instant gratification, speed and variety of information available in social media can't be matched in most formal speeches. Public speaking comes with a lot of assumptions baked into it--forms, formats and formalities that have been used over and over again for centuries.

I am still searching for a record of his words on this occasion .  1922     Birthday of Lane Kirkland, US labor leader:  “If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it to themselves.” From March 7 through March 13: 1790    After considerable time, Benjamin Franklin penned his religious creed:  “I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. 

The network is making the move from expensive staff to using much more of "so-called 'digital journalists' who produce, record and edit much of that material," notes Stelter.  That means opportunity for those of us in communications who embrace that employment, rather than being full-time permanent with benefits, is just-in-time with no benefits. ...Tags: If the 300 to 400 in ABC's News Division don't take the buyouts they're offered, there could be layoffs at the Disney unit.  0160; That's why Brian Stelter reports in THE