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The Future of Meetings, Predicted

Nick Morgan2020-11-17T16:13:17-05:00November 17, 2020|Communications, Community Building, Current Affairs|

What’s going to happen to virtual events when the pandemic is over?  This question has become more and more urgent ...

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What Is a Keynote Speech?

Nick Morgan2019-08-19T07:05:20-05:00August 20, 2019|Event Planning and Management, Public Words, Speech Writing|

What is a keynote speech?  That’s not a trick question.  I ask because keynote speeches take so many forms it ...

Three Quick Rules for Managing Virtual Communications Successfully

Nick Morgan2019-01-11T18:32:03-05:00November 13, 2018|Tools and Resources, Videos, Virtual Communications|

In the last 10 years, with the widespread adoption of the mobile phone, the business world has become much more ...

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Trends in Public Speaking in 2017

Nick Morgan2017-09-07T04:00:39-05:00September 7, 2017|Current Affairs, Event Planning and Management, Speaker Bureaus, Speaker Marketing, Successful Speakers|

I’ve been chatting recently with speakers, clients, managers, speaker bureau people, meeting planners – the whole universe of people who ...

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Why We Need Conferences

Nick Morgan2017-07-27T04:00:05-05:00July 27, 2017|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Community Building, Current Affairs, Emotion, Event Planning and Management, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Picture a worker in a cubicle. Gray walls, gray chair, gray computer. Gray hum of background noise all around. When ...

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A Simple Way to Make Conferences Better

Nick Morgan2017-03-28T04:00:26-05:00March 28, 2017|Audience Interaction, Community Building, Current Affairs, Event Planning and Management, Successful Speakers|

A weary traveler, down on his luck, comes to an inn.  He’s cold and hungry, so he goes into the ...

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Seth Godin, Front Row Culture, and High School Holdovers

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:20:36-05:00March 10, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Current Affairs, Listening, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

I’m a huge fan of Seth Godin’s amazing blog and I was fascinated to read his commentary recently on the ...

Why Communicate Face to Face?

Nick Morgan2015-11-12T07:00:07-05:00November 12, 2015|Body Language, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Audiences complain about it. Public speakers both fear and crave it. Companies spend a lot of money on it, and ...

Three more ways to connect with your audience before the speech

Nick Morgan2014-01-23T07:00:45-05:00January 23, 2014|Event Planning and Management|

As I noted in my previous post, there are several ways that you can begin to relate to your audience ...

Is It Good News To Find Out You’re Following A Bad Speaker?

Nick Morgan2013-11-12T12:51:29-05:00November 12, 2013|Event Planning and Management, When Things Go Wrong|

I posted earlier about a terrible speaker experience at a conference I attended recently.  It was an American who gave ...