Friday, November 28, 2008

A buffet of blogs about public speaking

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In a post back on June 6 I mentioned that Andrew Dlugan had discussed 106 blogs about public speaking . There is an interesting tool for kee...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Joy of teaching adult education

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On the evening of October 6, 2008 I taught a two-hour adult education course at Timberline High School for the Community Education Program h...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The joy of talking to kids

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One of the Toastmasters in Capitol Club, Marilee Fuller, ACG, is teaching a youth program on public speaking for a group of ten 4th to 6th g...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Stepping into someone else’s shoes

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One of the more challenging forms of public speaking is substituting for someone else at a technical conference. I have done it well just on...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

Biggest fears about speaking to groups

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This data is about 18 years old, but still interesting to contemplate. Dr. Roger Flax of Motivational Systems did a study of 12,000 people w...
Sunday, November 2, 2008

Public speaking is still the #1 specific social fear, according to the latest results from the NCS-R survey

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Is public speaking the #1 social fear? A couple of professionals involved with public speaking don’t think so, but I respectfully disagree w...
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Saturday, November 1, 2008

October 2008 Australian survey confirms Seinfeld: 23% of people fear public speaking more than death

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In one of his comedy routines Jerry Seinfeld said that people fear public speaking more than death, so if they went to a funeral then they w...