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Over on the don't get caught blog, I just told communicators about Lanyrd, a new site that aims to become a social network about conferences. MORE
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. PowerPoint’s been around longer than the World Wide Web easily by a country mile. MORE
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. MORE
On a bad “month” my membership site brings in at least $15,000.00 If you want to create a site that will give you a monthly income from membership fees, you can purchase a turnkey solution that you can customize yourself. People are making small fortunes with a small amount of weekly work with these sites. A great program to use for creating membership sites is Membergate. You can check out an example of a site that uses Membergate at [link]. MORE
Craigslist's Help-Wanted Section never disappoints in providing material for blog posts which will generate heavy traffic. Today, there is an ad in the New York City area for a writer. This writer will put together an erotic fictional piece running 4,000 words. MORE
It provided everything to keep us on its site. Place your sponsored content and links on Jane Genova's syndicated sites. We all knew that Facebook wanted us never to leave. Those goodies ranged from updates from followers to news to amazing streaming videos. MORE
In the "About Us" section of the media site LawNetz, it says: "LawNewz is the only site for live court video, high profile criminal trials, crazy crime, celebrity justice, and smart legal analysis." Those give that legal news site its unique edge. MORE
The ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com website is down due to an attach that started early this morning. I am working to resolve the issue and hope to have it running later today. Sorry that the links from here are not working at this time. MORE
The smart money is now asking us, when we apply for assignments with them, for the URLs of our social media sites. Increasingly, there is an expectation that the job entails increasing the exposure of what we write for their sites by repurposing them on our own. MORE
You need eyeballs to spend more time on your site. Right. Well, there are proven ways to do that. Those who have used them are stunned at the results. Hold On to Those Eyeballs. MORE
Hi Gang. I found a really great presentation resource that you'll want to check out. Visit [link] for lots of useful information on presentation skills, content development and visual aids. They have an extensive collection of expert tips and advice offered by leading presentation consultants. Be sure to try their many free samples of presentation tools and programs, including over 60 free PowerPoint templates. MORE
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 today MORE
But there were two sites which, even then, before there had been any hint of rampant hyperinflation or the hardline dictatorship of Mugabe, there were two buildings in Harare that I found rather depressing and, in retrospect, realise were totally prophetic of what lay in store for Zimbabweans. MORE
Some things don't change. In the 1970s, the book "What Color Is Your Parachute?" " documented that the best work opportunities come from unsolicited contacts. We find the name of the head of communications at X Corporation and ask for an "informational interview." MORE
Saturday sunrise in our local farmer’s market. For vendors, successful selling is strongly dependent on vocal power. Wherever you look, there is a tangle of flats, shrubs, standards and climbers. MORE
And apparently TJ’s webmaster failed to include common ‘meta-tags’ to make the site more search engine friendly – stuff that’s really ‘web-design 101′ Basic webmaster stuff and I’m surprised at the lack of attention to detail that exists on the site. MORE
In the early 21st century, digitals told us, if we wanted a presence on the web, to leave comments on sites. We did that, compulsively. Then soon enough we get very busy keeping up our own blogs, Facebook wall, websites, podcasts, and tweets. We commented less. Then we didn't comment at all. MORE
7.21.2009 Communication Heres an interesting site for material on communication that we dont often see in our textbooks. This, and much more on this site, will make for interesting class discussions. Communication Skills Classes | Add your site ARCHIVE ► 2011 (18) ► April (1) Communication Strategies: Guidelines for Resisting. Especially interesting are the lists of the ten best and worst speakers of different years. MORE
The Daily Express tells us that he was at a building site in East London and, according to Sky News , he was "addressing an audience of academics, think tanks and businesses in London''. Readers will know that I''ve been mystified by the locations at which the Prime and Chancellor of the Exchequer have delivered some rather important recent speeches (see list of related posts below). MORE
That last stand for journalism and other pure-writer types Mediabistro.com might become a sort of recruiting source for Mickey D jobs. 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." MORE
Because I’m always there as “SpeakerSue” and everyone is on best behavior, I never get to experience a “real” site. (It’s Here is what this mom learned about how sales people – not site inspections – lose business: 1. Sales people who care can be more important than the site. My son and his fiancee kindly invited me to join them as they visited several locations for their upcoming wedding. MORE
Facebook's mission seems to be that you will never leave the site. Place your sponsored content and links on Jane Genova's syndicated sites. LinkedIn watch out. Facebook has moved onto its turf. And with the added advantage that its new feature is free. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
A couple weeks ago, I installed WordPress on a domain I had not been using so I could work on a site redesign for my wife. Little did I know at the time, but that site was actually a parked domain. BOOM went my personal site. This site. A broken site. So, this site rises again. I didn’t think it would be that big a deal, since for the past several years, I’ve been receiving weekly database backups. MORE
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So, no, I won't be answering this help wanted on Craigslist for a blogger for an adult site. Some would say I should have overcome, years ago, the Puritanical conditioning of the Roman Catholic Church. MORE
Recently, my syndicated legal blog, Law and More , received an award for being among the top 25 sites for lawyers in 2015. Sure, blogging is a mature medium. So, many are asking: Should I start a blog? Should I continue investing the time maintaining a blog? MORE
On GAWKER , Lauri Apple reports that Yahoo has ended 4 entertainment sites. The four sites are: The Projector, The Set, The Amplifier, and The Famous. Being in digital and covering entrainment are supposed to ensure employment for writers. Right? Right? MORE
7.02.2010 Social Networking and Getting a Job Heres an article from CareerBuilder that makes a strong case for being cautious about what goes on your Facebook or MySpace site. Their advice: Be careful of what you put on your site, be discrete, and be prepared by checking your site regularly for potentially embarrassing photos or comments. MORE
Not all online job/contract assignments are created equal. Mediabistro help-wanted tends to carry prestige, classier jobs, and better pay. So it's no surprise that there are more applications for those plums. MORE
Also: is your site designed to handle easy smart phone access? Podcast: Changes in Social Media Sites [17:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download From → Uncategorized Comments are closed. MORE
But, there are Amazon sites in Japanese (10th most widely spoken) and German (11th most widely spoken), not to mention three in English (UK, USA, Canada) and Amazon China. Wondering how the Spanish translation of Lend Me Your Ears was doing, I thought I'd have a look at Amazon Spain. To my astonishment, I discovered that it doesn't exist, even though Spanish is the 3rd most widely spoken language in the world. MORE
Just in time for this year's Oscars comes Thank the Academy , an interactive site based on analysis of more than 200 Oscar speeches beginning in 1953 in the major categories. MORE
By embedding the TJ Walker Video player on your site, you can inform, education and entertain your visitors. AND you can make money from advertising–without doing any work beyond the initial placement of the video player on your site. MORE
April 12, 2011 Posts Comments The Speaker Point Helping you master public speaking and communication skills Home Delivery Speech Analysis Making Money Preparation Reviews About Best Public Speaking Gestures March 18, 2011 By Alex Cequea View Comments (Guest post by Eric Carter ) Chances are, if you are on this site you are familiar with public speaking gurus like Dr. Wayne Dyer or someone like Mark Victor Hansen. I would filter it through info from.edu sites to get the best quality. MORE
But the real reason lots of former fans may be becoming impatient with Huffington is that her site no longer has a clear niche identity. Arianna Huffington, who's at the World Economic Forum in Davos, has quickly gone from being a role model for digital immigrants to someone whose motives and actions we should be inspecting. The most recent decision media is inspecting is the firing of unpaid HuffingtonPost.com blogger Mike Elk. MORE
April 12, 2011 Posts Comments The Speaker Point Helping you master public speaking and communication skills Home Delivery Speech Analysis Making Money Preparation Reviews About Send me your video and get free public speaking feedback March 18, 2011 By Alex Cequea View Comments I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to provide the best value for readers of this site. I will put each video in its own post, and put them under the “speech analysis&# category on the site. MORE
This Is How Your Brain Responds To Beer vs Coffee First Seen on: So Bad So Good Original Source: I Love Coffee Filed under: General, Recommended Sites, The Shy Speakers'' […]. General Recommended Sites The Shy Speakers'' Guide Coffee General Knowledge Good to Know Interesting Information MORE
Reflection: The "old neighborhood," which shaped so many of us, is vanishing, with no one available on-site to tell its stories. Gentrification has made the real estate players wealthy. Along with plenty of transactional lawyers. MORE
Hi Gang. I found a really great presentation resource that you'll want to check out. Visit [link] for lots of useful information on presentation skills, content development and visual aids. They have an extensive collection of expert tips and advice offered by leading presentation consultants. Be sure to try their many free samples of presentation tools and programs, including over 60 free PowerPoint templates. MORE
And my mistake was even being a part of the Gawker site. Old-line gossip sites like The Enquirer had more of a sense of values and a mission than Gawker seems to have. No surprise, the Florida-based trial of "Hulk Hogan v Gawker" is receiving heavy media coverage. MORE
Second Life is a social media site. As social media sites go, I’ve never seen one as emotionally involving, wrenching even, as Second Life. MORE
Site Related Topics Thoughts On Presenting And Design
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
A couple weeks ago, I installed WordPress on a domain I had not been using so I could work on a site redesign for my wife. Little did I know at the time, but that site was actually a parked domain. BOOM went my personal site. This site. A broken site. So, this site rises again. I didn’t think it would be that big a deal, since for the past several years, I’ve been receiving weekly database backups.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 14, 2016
In the "About Us" section of the media site LawNetz, it says: "LawNewz is the only site for live court video, high profile criminal trials, crazy crime, celebrity justice, and smart legal analysis." Those give that legal news site its unique edge.
Max Atkinson
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
But there were two sites which, even then, before there had been any hint of rampant hyperinflation or the hardline dictatorship of Mugabe, there were two buildings in Harare that I found rather depressing and, in retrospect, realise were totally prophetic of what lay in store for Zimbabweans.
Communication Steroids
MAY 4, 2010
Also: is your site designed to handle easy smart phone access? Podcast: Changes in Social Media Sites [17:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download From → Uncategorized Comments are closed.
Speaking about Presenting
MAY 20, 2009
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.
The Presenter's Blog
JUNE 24, 2012
Saturday sunrise in our local farmer’s market. For vendors, successful selling is strongly dependent on vocal power. Wherever you look, there is a tangle of flats, shrubs, standards and climbers.
Thoughts On Presenting And Design
JUNE 18, 2009
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. PowerPoint’s been around longer than the World Wide Web easily by a country mile.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 1, 2018
Reflection: The "old neighborhood," which shaped so many of us, is vanishing, with no one available on-site to tell its stories. Gentrification has made the real estate players wealthy. Along with plenty of transactional lawyers.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 1, 2015
Some things don't change. In the 1970s, the book "What Color Is Your Parachute?" " documented that the best work opportunities come from unsolicited contacts. We find the name of the head of communications at X Corporation and ask for an "informational interview."
SpeakerSue Says...
MAY 7, 2012
Because I’m always there as “SpeakerSue” and everyone is on best behavior, I never get to experience a “real” site. (It’s Here is what this mom learned about how sales people – not site inspections – lose business: 1. Sales people who care can be more important than the site. My son and his fiancee kindly invited me to join them as they visited several locations for their upcoming wedding.
TJ Walker Interactive
APRIL 2, 2012
Uncategorized concussions ston ephillips
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Facebook's mission seems to be that you will never leave the site. Place your sponsored content and links on Jane Genova's syndicated sites. LinkedIn watch out. Facebook has moved onto its turf. And with the added advantage that its new feature is free.
Dave Paradi's PowerPoint Blog
MARCH 5, 2014
The ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com website is down due to an attach that started early this morning. I am working to resolve the issue and hope to have it running later today. Sorry that the links from here are not working at this time.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 21, 2016
The smart money is now asking us, when we apply for assignments with them, for the URLs of our social media sites. Increasingly, there is an expectation that the job entails increasing the exposure of what we write for their sites by repurposing them on our own.
The Speechwriter
JANUARY 15, 2009
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 today
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 11, 2016
And my mistake was even being a part of the Gawker site. Old-line gossip sites like The Enquirer had more of a sense of values and a mission than Gawker seems to have. No surprise, the Florida-based trial of "Hulk Hogan v Gawker" is receiving heavy media coverage.
The Eloquent Woman
FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Just in time for this year's Oscars comes Thank the Academy , an interactive site based on analysis of more than 200 Oscar speeches beginning in 1953 in the major categories.
The Eloquent Woman
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Over on the don't get caught blog, I just told communicators about Lanyrd, a new site that aims to become a social network about conferences.
Great Public Speaking
JUNE 11, 2012
On a bad “month” my membership site brings in at least $15,000.00 If you want to create a site that will give you a monthly income from membership fees, you can purchase a turnkey solution that you can customize yourself. People are making small fortunes with a small amount of weekly work with these sites. A great program to use for creating membership sites is Membergate. You can check out an example of a site that uses Membergate at [link].
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 4, 2011
On GAWKER , Lauri Apple reports that Yahoo has ended 4 entertainment sites. The four sites are: The Projector, The Set, The Amplifier, and The Famous. Being in digital and covering entrainment are supposed to ensure employment for writers. Right? Right?
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 20, 2016
You need eyeballs to spend more time on your site. Right. Well, there are proven ways to do that. Those who have used them are stunned at the results. Hold On to Those Eyeballs.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 20, 2015
Recently, my syndicated legal blog, Law and More , received an award for being among the top 25 sites for lawyers in 2015. Sure, blogging is a mature medium. So, many are asking: Should I start a blog? Should I continue investing the time maintaining a blog?
Communication Steroids
JUNE 1, 2010
Second Life is a social media site. As social media sites go, I’ve never seen one as emotionally involving, wrenching even, as Second Life.
Communication Steroids
JANUARY 24, 2010
And apparently TJ’s webmaster failed to include common ‘meta-tags’ to make the site more search engine friendly – stuff that’s really ‘web-design 101′ Basic webmaster stuff and I’m surprised at the lack of attention to detail that exists on the site.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 12, 2014
Craigslist's Help-Wanted Section never disappoints in providing material for blog posts which will generate heavy traffic. Today, there is an ad in the New York City area for a writer. This writer will put together an erotic fictional piece running 4,000 words.
TJ Walker Interactive
JANUARY 28, 2013
By embedding the TJ Walker Video player on your site, you can inform, education and entertain your visitors. AND you can make money from advertising–without doing any work beyond the initial placement of the video player on your site.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 25, 2011
In the early 21st century, digitals told us, if we wanted a presence on the web, to leave comments on sites. We did that, compulsively. Then soon enough we get very busy keeping up our own blogs, Facebook wall, websites, podcasts, and tweets. We commented less. Then we didn't comment at all.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 26, 2011
But the real reason lots of former fans may be becoming impatient with Huffington is that her site no longer has a clear niche identity. Arianna Huffington, who's at the World Economic Forum in Davos, has quickly gone from being a role model for digital immigrants to someone whose motives and actions we should be inspecting. The most recent decision media is inspecting is the firing of unpaid HuffingtonPost.com blogger Mike Elk.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
So, no, I won't be answering this help wanted on Craigslist for a blogger for an adult site. Some would say I should have overcome, years ago, the Puritanical conditioning of the Roman Catholic Church.
Dave Paradi's PowerPoint Blog
JUNE 1, 2009
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.
Max Atkinson
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
The Daily Express tells us that he was at a building site in East London and, according to Sky News , he was "addressing an audience of academics, think tanks and businesses in London''. Readers will know that I''ve been mystified by the locations at which the Prime and Chancellor of the Exchequer have delivered some rather important recent speeches (see list of related posts below).
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Not all online job/contract assignments are created equal. Mediabistro help-wanted tends to carry prestige, classier jobs, and better pay. So it's no surprise that there are more applications for those plums.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 30, 2009
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.
Max Atkinson
JULY 24, 2009
But, there are Amazon sites in Japanese (10th most widely spoken) and German (11th most widely spoken), not to mention three in English (UK, USA, Canada) and Amazon China. Wondering how the Spanish translation of Lend Me Your Ears was doing, I thought I'd have a look at Amazon Spain. To my astonishment, I discovered that it doesn't exist, even though Spanish is the 3rd most widely spoken language in the world.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 26, 2009
That last stand for journalism and other pure-writer types Mediabistro.com might become a sort of recruiting source for Mickey D jobs. 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."
Great Public Speaking
MAY 29, 2009
Hi Gang. I found a really great presentation resource that you'll want to check out. Visit [link] for lots of useful information on presentation skills, content development and visual aids. They have an extensive collection of expert tips and advice offered by leading presentation consultants. Be sure to try their many free samples of presentation tools and programs, including over 60 free PowerPoint templates.
Great Public Speaking
JULY 9, 2008
Hi Gang. I found a really great presentation resource that you'll want to check out. Visit [link] for lots of useful information on presentation skills, content development and visual aids. They have an extensive collection of expert tips and advice offered by leading presentation consultants. Be sure to try their many free samples of presentation tools and programs, including over 60 free PowerPoint templates.
The Speaker Point
MARCH 18, 2011
April 12, 2011 Posts Comments The Speaker Point Helping you master public speaking and communication skills Home Delivery Speech Analysis Making Money Preparation Reviews About Best Public Speaking Gestures March 18, 2011 By Alex Cequea View Comments (Guest post by Eric Carter ) Chances are, if you are on this site you are familiar with public speaking gurus like Dr. Wayne Dyer or someone like Mark Victor Hansen. I would filter it through info from.edu sites to get the best quality.
The Speaker Point
MARCH 18, 2011
April 12, 2011 Posts Comments The Speaker Point Helping you master public speaking and communication skills Home Delivery Speech Analysis Making Money Preparation Reviews About Send me your video and get free public speaking feedback March 18, 2011 By Alex Cequea View Comments I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to provide the best value for readers of this site. I will put each video in its own post, and put them under the “speech analysis&# category on the site.
The Communication Blog
JULY 21, 2009
7.21.2009 Communication Heres an interesting site for material on communication that we dont often see in our textbooks. This, and much more on this site, will make for interesting class discussions. Communication Skills Classes | Add your site ARCHIVE ► 2011 (18) ► April (1) Communication Strategies: Guidelines for Resisting. Especially interesting are the lists of the ten best and worst speakers of different years.
The Shy Speaker's Guide to Succes on Stage
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
This Is How Your Brain Responds To Beer vs Coffee First Seen on: So Bad So Good Original Source: I Love Coffee Filed under: General, Recommended Sites, The Shy Speakers'' […]. General Recommended Sites The Shy Speakers'' Guide Coffee General Knowledge Good to Know Interesting Information
The Communication Blog
JULY 2, 2010
7.02.2010 Social Networking and Getting a Job Heres an article from CareerBuilder that makes a strong case for being cautious about what goes on your Facebook or MySpace site. Their advice: Be careful of what you put on your site, be discrete, and be prepared by checking your site regularly for potentially embarrassing photos or comments.
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