Articles in category: sixminutes

Six Minutes launched in 2007. We’ve published hundreds of articles from communication experts; tens of thousands of speakers around the world subscribe and follow via email, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. But, most of our precious readers — that’s you — haven’t been around since the beginning.

So, today, we’re launching a new feature on Six Minutes. On Fridays, we’ll dip into the article archive and emerge with one of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust it off, shine a light on it, and consider it from a new perspective.

How long will we go? 10 weeks or 100 weeks? That depends on feedback from you. Please let us know if you find this useful.

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We are so happy that 280 readers participated in our 2012 reader survey. As promised, we’ve chosen three participants randomly to receive speaking books of their choice.

In this article, we summarize a few survey results, and discuss how we’ll try to improve Six Minutes for you based on this feedback.

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We want to make Six Minutes more relevant to your speaking needs.

To do that, we need your help.

Would you please take a few minutes to fill out a short survey?

1. Your responses are completely anonymous.
2. It will take just 2 or 3 minutes to complete.
3. You will be entered in a draw to win a speaking book of your choice (any book we have reviewed, provided it is still in print). For every 100 responses, we’ll choose another winner, up to a maximum of 5.
4. Your input will help us make Six Minutes better for you.

To enter the draw, all you have to do is:

1. Complete the survey, and
2. Leave a comment on this article, or send a message on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ so we know who you are and which book you’d like.

Thanks!

Great news… Six Minutes has given birth to triplets.

No, the triplets are not adorable humans. We’ve recently added three more social media platforms: Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest.

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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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