A Comparison of Two Inaugurals: Kennedy v Obama
President Kennedy gave 3 State of the Union addresses, and they are almost completely forgotten today. His Inaugural Address, on ...
President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address and How to Close a Speech – 3 Quick Tips
After an opening that grabs your audience and doesn’t let it go, the next most important moment in a presentation ...
5 Uncomfortable Truths about Communication
While we’ve still got the relatively clean slate of January 2013, and most of the year is before us, let’s ...
The Best and Worst of Communicating – 5 Quick Lessons from 2012
Once again this year I’m inspired by the top 10 best and worst communicators of 2012 list (compiled by my ...
Apps for iPad Speakers – December 2012 edition
What are the essential apps for iPad presenters? I compiled a list a year ago; it’s time for an update. ...
The Internet is NOT making us stupid – It’s making us different
Lots of commentators -- like my old friend Nicholas Carr, for example -- have bemoaned the rise of the Internet, and ...
Public Speaking Book Roundup: Duarte, Livingston, Smith and Boettinger
The pile of new books on public speaking people have sent me regularly gets too high to be safe, and ...
Election Sanity Break: Funny TED-Like, Non-TED Talk a Must-See
We succeed because of our weaknesses, not in spite of them. With that counter-intuitive thought, David Rendall takes his audience ...
How to follow up your meeting, conference, or event
After my recent blogs on virtual meetings, Kristin Zurovitch, Director of Marketing at Sonic Foundry, a tech company in Madison, ...
7 Surprising Truths about Body Language
Thanks to TV shows like Lie to Me and so-called body language experts commenting on the candidates during the American ...
