Here are some zero-cost holiday gift suggestions.
Some of the downloadable manifestoes at the ChangeThis web site are about public speaking and presentations. Five examples to make us think are:
1. 15-1/2 Ideas to Make Your Presentation Go from Boring to Bravo by Kristin Arnold
2. Before You Open Your Mouth: The Keys to Great Public Speaking by Nick Morgan
3. Presenting to Small Audiences: Turn Off the Projector! by Andrew Abela
4. Being a Gifted Speaker Isn’t a Gift by Frances Cole Jones
5. Presentation Revolution: Changing the Way the World Does Presentations by Scott Schwertly
Last year Ivan Hernandez discussed 10 Remarkable ChangeThis Manifestoes You Should Read.
Via the Web we already have free “virtual subscriptions” to two magazines: Speaker from the National Speakers Association) and Toastmaster (from Toastmasters international). We can either view individual issues online or download .pdf files of them without being a member of either organization. The archive for Speaker goes back three years, while the archive for Toastmaster goes back to 2007 (but the new digital edition with keyword search only began in January 2011).
Finally, for a free textbook on public speaking, check out the ACA Open Knowledge Online Guide. I posted a description of it beginning with a phony ad in 2009.
This blog post was inspired by Andrew Dlugan’s November 21st post with his list of holiday gift ideas. Initially I was upset that he’d started on Christmas before the Thanksgiving holiday even was over (here in the US). Then I realized that from his Canadian perspective Thanksgiving was back on the second Monday of October, rather than the fourth Thursday of November.
The image is a Puck magazine cover from 1913.
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