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Launched in 2005, it features an elite team of FBI employees who create profiles of the bad guys. The television series "Criminal Minds" probably has been singlehandedly responsible for motivating our best and brightest to apply for jobs at the FBI. MORE
Not since I was deposed about a trial I covered in 2005 through 2006 have I been snooped on. The nose knows. It smells power and the rest is the material for some of the most audacious scandals which have hit since Watergate. MORE
The Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association has been running an Academy for emerging speakers since 2005. The Speakers Academy (originally called Pro-Track) has graduated over 300 speakers from the year-long training program. MORE
Paul Chaney taught me about this then new medium of blogging back in 2005. This is our ninth holiday season together. With your comments and page views you taught me how to cut to the bone in communicating whatever. MORE
From an interview with Geraldo Rivera in 2005: Geraldo Rivera: Do you ever look back and contemplate, oh my goodness, Thriller is the biggest selling musical performance ever? MORE
" That's what I told my blogging coach Paul Chaney back in 2005, after he helped me get this site up and running. Since 2005, I have fallen apart when, well, life intervened and I couldn't blog as much as I wanted. "I'd rather be blogging." MORE
From an interview with Geraldo Rivera in 2005: Geraldo Rivera: Do you ever look back and contemplate, oh my goodness, Thriller is the biggest selling musical performance ever? MORE
Monday, September 14, 2009 Inspiration from Steve Jobs Given Steve Jobs return to work last week after a 5-month medical leave following his liver transplant , theres no better time than now to go back and listen to Jobs 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. MORE
One of the best acceptance speeches that I’ve seen was that given by Ari Sandel , a movie director who won the Oscar for Best Short Film – Live Action in 2005. Tonight is the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. It’s been years since I’ve seen the show live. MORE
The 2005 graduation speech by Steve Jobs garnered a lot of attention at the time, and is still talked about today, having been downloaded millions of times. It's graduation time in many parts of the world , and that means long ceremonies and a lot of speeches. MORE
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005. A subscriber ask me how she could create a printed handout that contains only some of the slides in the presentation. She wanted to create a handout with 3 slides per page. Here are the steps: For PowerPoint 2010. Choose File> Print. MORE
There is even a discussion of the Golden Mean and rule of thirds which I talked about in 2005 in this post From Wabi-Sabi to Golden Mean and here in From Golden Mean to Rule of Thirds. MORE
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers. MORE
Should we blog? Or is tweeting enough? In In fact, has Twitter become a more powerful communications tool than blogging? That's what clients ask me. After all, what compelled the attention of the world during the Silicon Valley trial "Pao v. MORE
I've talked about Tufte in my own books and on this website going back to at least this post in 2005. Edward Tufte is a leading expert in the data analysis and data visualization space. MORE
You readers were there, all eyes, when this blog launched in April 2005. You took the time to follow, leave comments, ask questions, and make suggestions. That kept me hunting for exactly the right content. And to post it in ways that made you satisfied that you clicked on. MORE
Since 2005, when I was an blogging early adopter, I have been analyzing trends in the legal industry here. Anna Wintour, watch out. On Instagram, there are kid influencers in the fashion space who have greater reach and influence than establishment media players such as the Vogue crowd. MORE
But she is also more than equal to the challenge of delivering a dramatic, deeply-felt speech, as she did at the 2005 funeral service for civil rights icon Rosa Parks. We've said it before: Jennifer Granholm is a rock star of public speaking. MORE
"A 2005 study of an Ebola outbreak in Gabon, Africa, suggests dogs can be infected with the virus but not suffer any symptoms." " - Bruce Golding, the New York Post, October 13, 2014. Here is the article. MORE
Since it was a small site, it worked — but by 2005, the site was huge and I knew that things had to change. I want to share with you a great resource for presenters– Indezine.com. MORE
I linked to this 2005 TED talk a few years ago, but it''s worth linking to again today. I''m a big fan of Scott McCloud''s work. MORE
TURN A DEAF EAR: CONVERSING, COMMENTING AND COMMUNICATING MAX ATKINSON By the same author Discovering Suicide: Studies in the Social Organization of Sudden Death (1978) London, The Macmillan Press Order in Court: The Organisation of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings (with Paul Drew) (1979) London, The Macmillan Press. MORE
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers. MORE
In that study , journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Hsiang Ins Chyi, found that the growth in website readership was two-tenth of a percent between 2007 and 2005. MORE
President's Day. Most people see this as another holiday to pursue recreation and leisure. I'm reflecting today on the great leaders who have given us the precious gift of freedom. Freedom of speech is another one of those rights we in America take for granted. But for many worldwide it isn't.My My personal freedom of speech heroes include Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, F. Roosevelt. Usually confined to history books, these visionaries defined, in their day, what freedom means. MORE
With Conde Nast since 2005, he will only remain until a global chief is hired. Conde Nast: Can the once glossy print empire survive digital everything? All we see is scrambling. The latest frantic move, following the axing of print Glamour, is the combining of the U.S. MORE
He had been serving there since 2005. Former practicing lawyer and currently a successful venture capitalist - Peter Thiel - has been one of the few conservatives in Silicon Valley. The majority of the prominent players there had fundraised for Hillary Clinton. MORE
Welcome back. Would love to hear from any of you who received my first message. Consider this our meeting place. I have so many RD friends, old and new. This seemed like the perfect way to meet MORE
Stanford Commencement – 2005. The speed at which information travels has rendered most news dated within hours; days if a story really has “legs.” ” To last through multiple news cycles is very rare. The passing of Steve Jobs has done just that, and for good reason. MORE
Happy Sunday. As I continue the blog my hope is to share with you my insights on public speaking, my passion, and to offer my feedback to help you speak with confidence. Everyone has their own unique message. Our job in life, I believe, is to unleash that message for all to hear. I invite you to suggest topics and I will respond with my best answer MORE
Way back in 2005, when I was blogging the Rhode Island lead paint trial, there were former full-time journalists covering the courtroom action as "stringers" (gig workers) in order to pick up some extra money. MORE
Since 2005, Hal has provided executive speech writing for top executives of Shell Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, CenterPoint Energy, GE […] On Thursday September 17, 2015 the Silicon Valley Speechwriters welcomed Hal Gordon as our guest on a conference call. Since 2005, Hal has provided executive speech writing for top executives of Shell Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, CenterPoint Energy, GE Aero Energy, UPS, Sim-Tex LP, cPanel and the Greater Houston Partnership. MORE
All his presentations were great, but my favorite one of Steve's is not his usual Apple presentation, but rather a short 15-minute speech delivered from behind a lectern at Stanford University in the spring of 2005. Steve Jobs passed away today. He was just 56. MORE
As a movie director, Sandel won an Academy Award in 2005 in the category, Best Short Film – Live Action. I was delighted to come across this short clip featuring Ari Sandel. His movie, West Bank Story , is a Romeo and Juliet musical comedy that takes place among the falafel stands of the West Bank. (By By the way, how can you not like a movie with the tagline: “A little singing, a little dancing, a lot of hummus&# ?). MORE
When I was blogging the Rhode Island lead paint trial (November 2005 - February 2006), I received an email threat to stop mentioning a judge in Pennsylvania. Ronan Farrow has embraced investigative journalism. MORE
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ahem … I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. MORE
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers. MORE
About eight years ago Nancy contacted me out of the blue—and it will be eight years exactly this December that I first met Nancy and Mark Duarte at their offices in Mountain View California (post from 2005). MORE
Those exceptions include Steve Jobs' talk at Stanford in 2005, It's time to replace the commencement speech. Politico points out the many of the commencement speeches by big political players such as Elizabeth Warren and Terry McAuliffe have been banal. MORE
Throwback Thursday… In 2005, Merv Griffin said he wrote the Jeopardy! them e song in under a minute. “That little 30 seconds has made me a fortune, millions,” he said. How much exactly? Somewhere between 70 and 80 million. And that was ten years ago. MORE
2005 Related Topics Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 13, 2005
Happy Sunday. As I continue the blog my hope is to share with you my insights on public speaking, my passion, and to offer my feedback to help you speak with confidence. Everyone has their own unique message. Our job in life, I believe, is to unleash that message for all to hear. I invite you to suggest topics and I will respond with my best answer
Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 21, 2005
President's Day. Most people see this as another holiday to pursue recreation and leisure. I'm reflecting today on the great leaders who have given us the precious gift of freedom. Freedom of speech is another one of those rights we in America take for granted. But for many worldwide it isn't.My My personal freedom of speech heroes include Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, F. Roosevelt. Usually confined to history books, these visionaries defined, in their day, what freedom means.
Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 19, 2005
Welcome to the weekend.Another cold one up in the Northeast. It seems like winter is still settled in here. How are things in your neck of the woods
Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 18, 2005
Welcome back. Would love to hear from any of you who received my first message. Consider this our meeting place. I have so many RD friends, old and new. This seemed like the perfect way to meet
Speaking Of...
FEBRUARY 12, 2005
Just back from the Florida sun. A welcome break from the northeast snow. A question for y'all.what what do you fear most about speaking in front of groups
The Eloquent Woman
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
But she is also more than equal to the challenge of delivering a dramatic, deeply-felt speech, as she did at the 2005 funeral service for civil rights icon Rosa Parks. We've said it before: Jennifer Granholm is a rock star of public speaking.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 2, 2015
Should we blog? Or is tweeting enough? In In fact, has Twitter become a more powerful communications tool than blogging? That's what clients ask me. After all, what compelled the attention of the world during the Silicon Valley trial "Pao v.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
The Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association has been running an Academy for emerging speakers since 2005. The Speakers Academy (originally called Pro-Track) has graduated over 300 speakers from the year-long training program.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 1, 2019
You readers were there, all eyes, when this blog launched in April 2005. You took the time to follow, leave comments, ask questions, and make suggestions. That kept me hunting for exactly the right content. And to post it in ways that made you satisfied that you clicked on.
More than PowerPoint...
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Throwback Thursday… In 2005, Merv Griffin said he wrote the Jeopardy! them e song in under a minute. “That little 30 seconds has made me a fortune, millions,” he said. How much exactly? Somewhere between 70 and 80 million. And that was ten years ago.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Since 2005, Hal has provided executive speech writing for top executives of Shell Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, CenterPoint Energy, GE […] On Thursday September 17, 2015 the Silicon Valley Speechwriters welcomed Hal Gordon as our guest on a conference call. Since 2005, Hal has provided executive speech writing for top executives of Shell Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, CenterPoint Energy, GE Aero Energy, UPS, Sim-Tex LP, cPanel and the Greater Houston Partnership.
Matt Eventoff
OCTOBER 10, 2011
Stanford Commencement – 2005. The speed at which information travels has rendered most news dated within hours; days if a story really has “legs.” ” To last through multiple news cycles is very rare. The passing of Steve Jobs has done just that, and for good reason.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
OCTOBER 28, 2009
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 25, 2013
Paul Chaney taught me about this then new medium of blogging back in 2005. This is our ninth holiday season together. With your comments and page views you taught me how to cut to the bone in communicating whatever.
Presentation Zen
AUGUST 5, 2013
About eight years ago Nancy contacted me out of the blue—and it will be eight years exactly this December that I first met Nancy and Mark Duarte at their offices in Mountain View California (post from 2005).
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
OCTOBER 28, 2009
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
OCTOBER 28, 2009
He’s a college drop-out whose eloquent 2005 Stanford University Commencement address has been watched [.]. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule – a corporate executive whose product introductions captivate audiences as powerfully as the best motivational speakers.
PowerPoint Tips
MARCH 10, 2011
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005. A subscriber ask me how she could create a printed handout that contains only some of the slides in the presentation. She wanted to create a handout with 3 slides per page. Here are the steps: For PowerPoint 2010. Choose File> Print.
Presentation Zen
JANUARY 31, 2014
I linked to this 2005 TED talk a few years ago, but it''s worth linking to again today. I''m a big fan of Scott McCloud''s work.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 9, 2016
In that study , journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Hsiang Ins Chyi, found that the growth in website readership was two-tenth of a percent between 2007 and 2005.
Presentation Zen
OCTOBER 5, 2011
All his presentations were great, but my favorite one of Steve's is not his usual Apple presentation, but rather a short 15-minute speech delivered from behind a lectern at Stanford University in the spring of 2005. Steve Jobs passed away today. He was just 56.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 12, 2016
Launched in 2005, it features an elite team of FBI employees who create profiles of the bad guys. The television series "Criminal Minds" probably has been singlehandedly responsible for motivating our best and brightest to apply for jobs at the FBI.
Max Atkinson
JUNE 24, 2014
TURN A DEAF EAR: CONVERSING, COMMENTING AND COMMUNICATING MAX ATKINSON By the same author Discovering Suicide: Studies in the Social Organization of Sudden Death (1978) London, The Macmillan Press Order in Court: The Organisation of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings (with Paul Drew) (1979) London, The Macmillan Press.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 13, 2014
"A 2005 study of an Ebola outbreak in Gabon, Africa, suggests dogs can be infected with the virus but not suffer any symptoms." " - Bruce Golding, the New York Post, October 13, 2014. Here is the article.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 1, 2018
Those exceptions include Steve Jobs' talk at Stanford in 2005, It's time to replace the commencement speech. Politico points out the many of the commencement speeches by big political players such as Elizabeth Warren and Terry McAuliffe have been banal.
Thoughts On Presenting And Design
DECEMBER 11, 2010
Speak Schmeak
JULY 2, 2009
From an interview with Geraldo Rivera in 2005: Geraldo Rivera: Do you ever look back and contemplate, oh my goodness, Thriller is the biggest selling musical performance ever?
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
With Conde Nast since 2005, he will only remain until a global chief is hired. Conde Nast: Can the once glossy print empire survive digital everything? All we see is scrambling. The latest frantic move, following the axing of print Glamour, is the combining of the U.S.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
He had been serving there since 2005. Former practicing lawyer and currently a successful venture capitalist - Peter Thiel - has been one of the few conservatives in Silicon Valley. The majority of the prominent players there had fundraised for Hillary Clinton.
PowerPoint Tips
APRIL 22, 2011
Since it was a small site, it worked — but by 2005, the site was huge and I knew that things had to change. I want to share with you a great resource for presenters– Indezine.com.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 18, 2019
Since 2005, when I was an blogging early adopter, I have been analyzing trends in the legal industry here. Anna Wintour, watch out. On Instagram, there are kid influencers in the fashion space who have greater reach and influence than establishment media players such as the Vogue crowd.
Presentation Zen
JULY 5, 2013
There is even a discussion of the Golden Mean and rule of thirds which I talked about in 2005 in this post From Wabi-Sabi to Golden Mean and here in From Golden Mean to Rule of Thirds.
Presentation Zen
DECEMBER 7, 2016
I've talked about Tufte in my own books and on this website going back to at least this post in 2005. Edward Tufte is a leading expert in the data analysis and data visualization space.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 4, 2017
When I was blogging the Rhode Island lead paint trial (November 2005 - February 2006), I received an email threat to stop mentioning a judge in Pennsylvania. Ronan Farrow has embraced investigative journalism.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 13, 2013
" That's what I told my blogging coach Paul Chaney back in 2005, after he helped me get this site up and running. Since 2005, I have fallen apart when, well, life intervened and I couldn't blog as much as I wanted. "I'd rather be blogging."
Manner of Speaking
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ahem … I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 29, 2018
Way back in 2005, when I was blogging the Rhode Island lead paint trial, there were former full-time journalists covering the courtroom action as "stringers" (gig workers) in order to pick up some extra money.
Presentation Zen
JUNE 20, 2011
The 2005 graduation speech by Steve Jobs garnered a lot of attention at the time, and is still talked about today, having been downloaded millions of times. It's graduation time in many parts of the world , and that means long ceremonies and a lot of speeches.
Speak Schmeak
JULY 2, 2009
From an interview with Geraldo Rivera in 2005: Geraldo Rivera: Do you ever look back and contemplate, oh my goodness, Thriller is the biggest selling musical performance ever?
Manner of Speaking
JUNE 24, 2010
As a movie director, Sandel won an Academy Award in 2005 in the category, Best Short Film – Live Action. I was delighted to come across this short clip featuring Ari Sandel. His movie, West Bank Story , is a Romeo and Juliet musical comedy that takes place among the falafel stands of the West Bank. (By By the way, how can you not like a movie with the tagline: “A little singing, a little dancing, a lot of hummus&# ?).
Manner of Speaking
FEBRUARY 27, 2011
One of the best acceptance speeches that I’ve seen was that given by Ari Sandel , a movie director who won the Oscar for Best Short Film – Live Action in 2005. Tonight is the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. It’s been years since I’ve seen the show live.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 14, 2013
Not since I was deposed about a trial I covered in 2005 through 2006 have I been snooped on. The nose knows. It smells power and the rest is the material for some of the most audacious scandals which have hit since Watergate.
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