Tucson, President Obama, and the Political Discourse
Two nights ago, President Obama did something extraordinary. He gave the best speech of his presidency to date. He rose ...
How Emotional Should You Get in Public? 5 Rules for Public Emoting
A generation ago it was easy: public figures didn’t cry in front of the cameras, or in any sort of ...
The Top 5 Communications Lessons from 2010
One last item to tick off the list for last year before I get fully up to speed in 2011: ...
The Year Ahead: Fearless Predictions for Communications in 2011
A calendar year is an arbitrary deadline and communication is never-ending; nevertheless it’s helpful to take stock of the kind ...
How You Can Profit from the Massachusetts Gubernatorial Race
Here in Massachusetts, we have a gubernatorial race that is an object lesson for students of public speaking everywhere. The ...
Clinton, Blair, and the Future of the World
In 1996, when Bill Clinton was running for president for the second time, and Tony Blair was the opposition leader ...
A speaker scam?
A good friend of ours at Public Words, a successful public speaker, recently received a speaking inquiry from a prestigious ...
President Obama’s Oil Spill Speech — how effective was it?
I’m taking a day off from the discussion of the Public Words Speaker Forum 2010 to talk about President Obama’s ...
From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘I don’t quit’ — a rhetorical analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union speech
President Obama gave his first official State of the Union address last night. He gave a similar speech at a ...
7 Simple New Year’s Resolutions for Improving Your Public Speaking
1. I will construct all my speeches to focus on one main point, removing all information that doesn’t support ...
