Articles in category: sixminutes

Six Minutes is back.

Well, almost. After an extended absence due to a busy spring and summer, career shifts, medical journeys, and many other things, Six Minutes will be returning to publish regular articles again soon. We’ve got a number of articles going through final review, and we’ll be publishing them in the days and weeks to come.

In the meantime, you may wish to explore our article archive with hundreds of public speaking articles written over the past four years.

On a Personal Note

Thank you to all of you who have contacted Six Minutes during the publishing hiatus. It was humbling to hear that Six Minutes continues to be a helpful resource to so many speakers around the world. I regret that I haven’t been able to respond to everyone, but I’ll hopefully be able to make amends in the weeks and months to come.

Six Minutes is dedicated to helping you become a confident and effective speaker.

One way to realize this goal is to offer not just one opinion from one person, but many opinions from many in the larger public speaking community. Last week’s article on using improv to boost your speaking confidence from guest author Leon van der Walt is a great example.

In this light, I invite you to write an article for Six Minutes.

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The Six Minutes reader survey results are in.

Thanks to everyone who was able to participate. Your feedback is valuable as it helps us plan Six Minutes articles for the future.

Based on the success of this survey, we plan to conduct more frequent surveys to formally solicit feedback from you.

Your informal feedback is welcome anytime. If you have questions or comments about anything on Six Minutes, please contact us.

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As we plan new Six Minutes articles and features, it helps immensely to understand you, our reader.

Please help plan the direction for Six Minutes into 2010 by taking 1 minute to answer a very short survey.

For those reading this message in email or via RSS, you may not see the survey below. In that case, click through to the one-minute survey here.

Thank you in advance for your participation, and thank you for reading.

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Six Minutes is dedicated to helping you become a more effective speaker and communicator.

One way to realize this goal is to offer not just one opinion and one voice, but the advice and opinions of the larger public speaking community. Last week’s excellent article on how to get into professional speaking from guest author Jane Atkinson is a great example.

Therefore, I would like to invite you to write an article for Six Minutes.

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Six Minutes continues to grow, both in the number and breadth of articles as well as in the number of subscribed and unsubscribed readers.

Just as a wise speaker must consider their audience when constructing a presentation, I think it is important to do the same for Six Minutes. Please help me plan the direction for Six Minutes into 2009 by taking 1 or 2 minutes to answer a short survey.

For those reading this message in email or via RSS, you may not see the survey below. In that case, click through to the one-minute survey here (or the Google Docs version).

Thank you in advance for your participation, and thank you for reading.

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Six Minutes entered the public speaking blogosphere six months ago.

Whether you discovered Six Minutes months ago or days ago, thank you for your readership.

Due to rapid subscriber growth lately, I’m going to mark the occasion by:

• highlighting reader favorites;
• summarizing the regular features; and
• looking at future articles.

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This is the new home for the Six Minutes blog, previously at 6minutes.wordpress.com. All previous posts and comments have been migrated here.

WordPress.com is a fantastic free service for bloggers, but moving to a new host increases the tools at my disposal to deliver interesting content.

Thank you for your continued readership.

Andrew

The Six Minutes blog aims to study effective communication methods, with a focus on public speaking and presentations.

I am a both a practitioner as well as as student of effective communication techniques.

• Written language – reports, emails, letters, proposals, and blogs
• Oral language – 1-on-1 conversations, meetings, presentations
• Body language – gestures, eye movements, body positioning

This is my motivation for starting this blog.