I grabbed my Blackberry when I woke up this morning and saw that Bnet was promoting a webinar called How to Change Hearts, Minds, and Actions: Guy Kawasaki Speaks on Enchantment. Guy Kawasaki, for those of you who don’t know,… Read More »From persuasion to enchantment
I went to Urban Chicken in Montclair, NJ because I heard it was good. When I walked in, a woman behind the counter saw me reading from the menu mounted on the wall above her. “Have you ever been here… Read More »Piercing the public persona is a presentation skill
Occupying a prominent perch on my shelves and in my heart is a little book called Public Speaking as Listeners Like It, by Richard C. Borden. It was given to me by Marian Rich, a renowned and beloved New York… Read More »Public speaking as listeners like it
I recently came across Lillipip, a company that creates animated videos about your product, service, or concept. Check them out. They have a simple storyboarding template of four blank squares. In the first, you draw or paste a picture of… Read More »Storyboarding your presentation
He was late arriving and slow getting past the hand-shakers and back-slappers, but President Obama’s State of the Union Address was a new slant on an old trope, at times uplifting (“we do big things”) and at other times evasive… Read More »The State of the Union: Style has substance in public speaking
Harvard and Google got married (NY Times article, Fri Dec 17) and have given birth to a database containing all the words in all the books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian. You—yes… Read More »Counting the words that count in high stakes presentations