Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere. Topics featured this week include:
Would you like to win a Macbook Air?
An iPod Touch?
An Amazon Kindle?
A copy of Presentation Zen?
The World’s Best Presentation Contest is returning to SlideShare for 2008.
Get creative, enter the contest, and you can win one of those prizes.
Leave a comment linking to your entry. If a number of Six Minutes subscribers enter, I’ll feature those entries in a future article.
Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere. Topics featured this week include:
Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Topics featured this week include:
Professional writer John Hewitt has just published a guest article I wrote on this topic: how to use statistics which connect with your audience and strengthen your argument.
Here’s a preview:
Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Topics featured this week include:
I’m pleased to announce that a new resource for speakers has been created at speaking.alltop.com.
Guy Kawasaki and the team at Alltop enthusiastically took my suggestion and delivered a great resource. It lists the five most recent articles published by a subset of public speaking blogs listed in the the Public Speaking Blogosphere.
Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Topics featured this week include:
Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Topics featured this week include:
Have you ever been to a painfully bad seminar with audience members murmuring to each other…?
These are symptoms of a speech that had no clear objective and was not focused on achieving that objective.
The third Toastmasters speech project stresses the importance of clearly identifying your target objective, and then maintaining precise focus to achieve it. This article of the Toastmasters Speech Series examines the primary goals of this project, provides tips and techniques, and links to numerous sample speeches.
When Steve Jobs speaks, people listen.
Why?
No. You can easily learn these techniques and present like Steve Jobs.
In this video from bnet.com, communications coach Carmine Gallo provides an insightful synopsis of the methods that Steve Jobs uses to captivate his audience.
Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Topics featured this week include:
When you mask your emotions, you sever all connection with the audience. They might as well be reading your speech from a boring magazine.
Conversely, your connection to the audience is strongest when you effectively transfer your emotion to them.
Are you sharing your emotions? Or are you speaking as if a paper bag hung between you and your audience?
Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Topics featured this week include:
Speech contests are your fastest route to your greatest improvement.
David Brooks, 1990 World Champion of Public Speaking
This past weekend, I won the Toastmasters District 21 Speech Evaluation Contest and placed third in the District 21 International Speech Contest.
The accolades are very nice, but they are fleeting in nature. On the other hand, the breadth and depth of lessons learned during these speech contests are long-lasting.
This article highlights just a few of these valuable lessons which apply to all speakers, whether novice or professional.
