Monthly Archive for June, 2008

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.

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Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere. Topics featured this week include:

• helping your audience remember your key message;
• speaking you need to do before your presentation;
• reducing nervousness;
• arranging a room for a better training environment;
• lessons learned from a story file
• and many more.

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Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.

Topics featured this week include:

• using statistics in a presentation;
• persuasive speaking;
• sales presentations;
• humorous sounds;
• choosing the best type of visuals;
• the benefits of gesturing;
• and more…

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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:

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Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.

Topics featured this week include:

• interviews with public speaking bloggers;
• a new speaking portal;
• audience analysis;
• speechwriting tips;
• PowerPoint cheers and jeers;
• a winning Toastmasters speech; and
• political speech analysis.

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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 Public Speaking Blogosphere.

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Every Saturday, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.

Topics featured this week include:

• the value of videotaping yourself;
• choosing between a slow or fast speech opening;
• using simple language;
• dealing with hecklers;
• choosing appropriate images; and
• a pair of articles examining the three Presidential candidate speeches from last week.

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