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Monday, March 8, 2010
Your site can be simple if you have the necessary elements to describe your expertise and your value to your target market(s). Third party endorsements – These can be under a “reviews” section or these can be integrated into the site or on flash pages, or using scrolling text 3.) Meeting planner’s tools – This is a valuable meeting planner resource page such as various photos (color and black/white) of you that can be 12 essential Steps to Attract Your Ideal Customers With all due respect, love and admiration, why do you, some of our planet’s
 
Thursday, March 4, 2010
but for public audiences, that amount of qualification can divert attention by the time the point rolls around. To explain his "be bold" note, Frank pointed me to this blog post, Why You're Too Qualified and Respctful to Produce Great Content , by Pace Smith on the popular Copyblogger site. Join our thriving community to get extra content, early input into my blog posts, and to share your questions, photos and video. New! Sign up for The Eloquent Woman's free monthly newsletter, Step Up Your Speaking Shop for books, technology and supplies for speakers at The Eloquent
 
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
It's a popular site where you can post your presentation slides--and it's considered one measure of social-media credibility to have the most-shared set of slides. The SlideShare Zeitgeist has been released, full of data on who's using the site, how and why (see above slideshow) -- and it turns out that men and women are using the site differently. Among the findings: The ratio of men to women sharing SlideShare Zeitgeist 2009 Do you use SlideShare? They make it easy by using tools that make it easy for you to embed the slides on your website, or share them
 

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With social media growing as a popular resource for businesses to reach out and connect with customers and prospects, presenters need to look outside of the room where they give presentations. Put it in on presentation sharing sites like Slideboom.com and Slideshare.net. Many web sites accept guest writers or bloggers. Sharing them on the Internet establishes your expertise, shows how you think, spreads your brand and provides yummy link juice. Here are eight ways you can squeeze more out of your hard work in creating your beautiful bullet-free presentation.
The Freesound Project is a web site that collects sounds and sound effects (not music) that are available under Creative Commons licensing, and therefore free and legal for anyone to use. It’s also a community; you can register and upload your own sounds for sharing. At the top right, enter a term in the Search box.
Fellow PPT MVP Echo Swinford has the most comprehensive list of new features (and a few now missing) at her site, echosvoice.com . Tags: Resource/Mis This is the most comprehensive compilation list I have seen with 60+ features listed. If you have been using PPT 2007 for a while, or recently moved it it, this has lots of good information on features you may be overlooking.
They are all good quality and the pricing is good (or looking better as sites like iStockPhoto slowly raise their rates). Tags: Resource/Mis StockExpert seems similiar to iStockPhoto when I do a search - lots of the same or similiar images. One new feature is the selection of videos - which will be more important with the release of PowerPoint 2010 and the whole world goes video crazy.
Despite the application’s inconsistent cooperation (I did check the web site for troubleshooting and found no answers); it works great when it plays nice. Tags: BBP resources PowerPoint Web/Tech presentation If you don’t have a  Tablet PC to write directly on your slides during a BBP presentation, you can always use a whiteboard as a companion to your screen.  But if you want even more flexibility to write from other places in the room, or to let your audience write on the screen, try Papershow , a more portable solution that works around the shortcomings of white boards
Alltop.com is a site that aggregates all the top content from around the Web onto one page, for any topic you like. Tags: News Resource Now they've added a page for public speaking and communication at speaking.alltop.com . You can find links to the last five posts for all your favorite speaking blogs there, including Speak Schmeak ! Thanks to Andrew
Speaking Pro Centra l collects blog posts from many PowerPoint, presentation, and speaking sites, including EllenFinkelstein.com. Tags: Resourc It’s a blog, too. On the right, you see a list of the sources and you can quickly go to a page with the latest posts on each one. ...Tags:
Here's a new resource for speakers: Public Speaking Community , motto " one speech at a time ," is a new online community for "people who want to become better public speakers." I'm delighted to say that this blog is among those featured on the new site , which also includes a question-and-answer section where you can crowd-source solutions to your speaking issues, as well as video and lots of advice from public-speaking bloggers, all in one place. As with any online community, this one will work best if you participate. Check it out! ...Tags:
Reader Mike Schultz shares another good source of online storytelling examples and resources to help you in your next speech: Washington, DC-based SpeakeasyDC , which aims to promote autobiographical storytelling with podcasts, recordings, and events that include a monthly open mic series, ensemble performances, story socials, and classes and coaching--and they broadcast on Local TV, available on the site. Tags: storytelling women and public speaking online resources we lik Here's a recent example from a woman speaker talking about her fears. Check out this new addition
Alltop , an aggregator site that promises "all the top" sites and articles on the Web, has added Speak for Success to its regular feed of public speaking articles . You can think of an Alltop site as a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. Aside from our contributions, you'll find dozens of other sites with tips on everything from corporate and business storytelling to how to write I hope you will enjoy this online resource and I'm delighted that my Speak for Success Blog is included! ...Tags: