Public Speaking and the Holidays
The paid public speaking business is a notoriously seasonal one, with peaks in the spring and fall, and valleys in ...
President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech- how good was it?
Great speechmaking is rare, and recent great speechmaking (in this soundbite-driven age) is rarer still. All the more reason ...
Ten Reasons for Public Speakers to be Thankful
10. 2010 already looks to be a better year for conferences than 2009. 9. Pico Pocket Projectors are here. 8. ...
President Obama’s Health Care Speech: How did he do?
Last night, President Obama proved that he is still the master of rhetoric we saw during the campaign by delivering ...
Did President Obama’s Speech Make the Grade?
President Obama took on a tough challenge when he decided to speak to K – 12 students across the country ...
What should Steve Ballmer say?
For my blog today, I'm linking to a guest blog I did for Vince Thompson of Smart Planet. Thanks to ...
Palin and Sotomayor – Lessons in Presenting
I’m struck by the very different recent public appearances of Sarah Palin and Judge Sonia Sotomayor, because they illustrate – ...
Did Obama’s body language match his rhetoric?
Every communication is two conversations, the content and the body language. When the two are aligned, a speaker can be ...
What did President Obama’s Cairo speech achieve?
The reactions to President Obama's Cairo University speech are falling along predictable fault lines in the Middle East: http://bit.ly/pETKy. But ...
Where President Obama went wrong on the Guantanamo Speech — and how you can do better
How do you argue your side of an emotional, contentious issue in a way that doesn’t further divide people? President ...
