Virtual Communication Is Flawed in Some Key Ways, Part 1
Communicating in the virtual world creates some built-in hazards for us humans because we originally evolved to communicate face to ...
If Virtual Communication Is so Important, Why Do I Feel so Bad Using It?
For most people, moving into the digital world to communicate means experiencing significant loss of clarity, ease, and depth. You ...
Why Do We Have Eyebrows?
When you’re talking anthropogeny, it can be hard to tease out cause and effect. Did we humans evolve a bigger ...
What’s Wrong with Virtual Communication, Part 2
Virtual relationships are more fragile and easily disrupted because they all lack the unconscious connections our face-to-face interactions automatically convey. ...
What’s Wrong with Virtual Communication, Part 1
We are all unwitting participants in a massive social experiment that began slowly after World War II and gathered speed ...
How to Make Your Speaking Voice Sound More Intelligent
You’re standing in the wings, getting ready to go on stage to give an important speech. If you’re like most ...
Memory, Lighting, and Public Speaking
What are we to make of a recent study that showed some memory loss and impaired learning in lab rats ...
An Update on Proxemics
Edward T. Hall virtually single-handedly invented the science of proxemics a generation ago, studying how humans handle the distances between us. ...
I’m losing the battle against PowerPoint
I’ve been blogging for 11 years. Almost that entire time, I’ve been waging a campaign against slides. I’m losing. A ...
New Year’s Voice Resolutions for Speakers – 2018
The single most important tool in the speaker’s toolkit is the voice. If you have no voice, you have no ...
