Speaking Pro Central is a new website which aggregates content from many different speaking and presenting sites. Tony Karrer is the driving force behind the site. First, there was alltop , now there’s Speaking Pro Central . What’s special about it is that it has a clever search feature that allows you to find the top posts “according to social signals” for a given keyword.

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I like the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, because they're so open about how to put forward a proposal for a book. Before Christmas, I wrote a piece for them about being a speechwriter. Click here to read it. And toda

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:

Speaking Pro Central collects blog posts from many PowerPoint, presentation, and speaking sites, including EllenFinkelstein.com. 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 on

Tags: disasters this sit As research for the book, I’ve been collecting stories of things going wrong. From hecklers, to equipment failures, to tough crowds. Today I’ve heard one of the best stories of things going wrong. It’s a great story of what he calls a hell gig.

On the company's web site, they list these five features (along with others). I copied the photos from the web site onto the slide and instantly had a much more visually appealing slide. When you are looking for photos to use in your own presentations and you work for a company that has a professionally done web site, start with the images that have been selected for the web site. I was doing a slide makeover today for slides from a large corporation. It is part of some work I am doing with a presentation skills expert and we are trying to show her client that their

0160; The site that brings me assignments and it's free and it's global is Craigslist.  My hunch is that the other job sites are going to go the way of print journalism.  I've tried them all: Monster.com, LinkedIn, Journalismjobs.com, Odwyerpr.com, Elance.com, Mediabistro.com, Careerbuilders.com, CT Job Bank, Public Relations Society of America, International Association of Business Communicators.  0160;

Some presenters used them to launch demos of Web sites. If any of us had the wherewithal to copy them down or even go to those sites on our phones or laptops, then we’re even more distracted.  There If the intent was for the speaker to click on those links and demonstrate the sites, then it’s an invitation to disaster.  Granted, PowerPoint’s been around longer than the World Wide Web easily by a country mile.  When When use of the Web became popular, URLs started invading slide decks.  Sometimes

That last stand for journalism and other pure-writer types Mediabistro.com might become a sort of recruiting source for Mickey D jobs.  0160; Yeah, it's gotten that  bad and there's no light at the end of the tunnel. In Gawker.com, Ryan Tate reports  that a growing number of those classified on Mediabistro.com are "for straight up clerical jobs with no media connection."