Public Speaking Blogosphere: Week in Review [2008-01-19]

Week in Review: Six Minutes

• Speech Analysis Series: How to Study and Critique a Speech
  The first in a series of articles devoted to improving speech evaluation skills. Subsequent articles will be coming this week.

Week in Review: Public Speaking Blogosphere

Of the many fine articles published last week, here are a few that stood out for me.

• Presentation Tips from a Steve Jobs keynote
  Garr Reynolds analyzes the recent presentation by Apple’s CEO and summarizes “6 takeaways for aspiring presenters.” [For a very different speech style, see this speech critique of Steve Jobs at Stanford.]
• Crafting a convincing conclusion [part 2, part 3]
  Jef Menguin gives us not one article on designing a speech conclusion, but a series of three articles to convince us not to end with phrases like “… and that’s all I’ve got to say about that.“
• PowerPoint – Dodging Bullets and Dodging bullets – a follow-up
  Rowan Manahan examines the bullet points vs. visual slides debate with an energetic two-part series.
• Find Your Niche
  Marilyn Jess encourages speakers to focus our speaking energy on areas of expertise.
• Red Flags in your slideshow
  Wayne Botha offers “You can’t read this slide, but the text says…” and four other excuses that we shouldn’t be making to our audience.
• How to Make Your Speech Sound Like Music to Their Ears
  John Watkis teaches us about two essential speech elements: the chorus and the hook.
• Observational Humor — Case Study #17
  John Kinde delivers the latest in his series which demonstrate how to transform a series of event observations into clever and quick-witted observational humor.

New Public Speaking Blog

One more blog has been added to the public speaking blogosphere list, bringing the total to 78 blogs.

• Susan Trivers: Great Speaking Coach

Thank you for helping to spread the word, thus helping to achieve the primary aim of the list: “to aid readers in the discovery of excellent public speaking blogs.”