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Posts Tagged: speech
Elevate Your Public Speaking Skills
“Becoming an Effective Public Speaker” was an online training hosted by GovLoop to help you transform your public speaking skills to connect with any audience.
Presentation Hacks to Engage Your Audience
The equivalence of this in my adult life is being read to from a PowerPoint presentation that I could, you know, read myself. We’ve all been in those presentations, trainings or meetings. The presenter hands out a stapled version of the PowerPoint that’s on the screen. And then they read it to you. Verbatim. Don’t… Read more »
5 Ways To Eliminate Ums and Improve Your Public Speaking Credibility
You want your presentations to show others that you’re credible, confident, and engaging. Using disfluencies such as um, uh, ah, eh, er, etc. erodes your speech. They bore audiences and make them question if you know what you’re talking about. Think you don’t use disfluencies? Use your Smartphone to record yourself; you may be surprised by the results.Read… Read more »
Nobody Loves Me, Job Search Gone Bad
A post by Patra Frame, ClearedJobs.Net HR Specialist. I was talking with a job seeking friend recently. He was angry and discouraged. “I have applied to a lot of jobs, gone to a lot of job fairs, and no-one responds,” he said. “I’ve got the top clearances in hot demand areas. WTH?” So I askedRead… Read more »
The Chick-fil-A Squabble is Not a First Amendment Issue
THIS is why our schools need to teach this stuff. Here we go again, folks. Every once in a while, a public figure states an opinion about a political issue. Then some people object. Then other people object to the first bunch. Then millions of Americans whip themselves into a colossal panic, whining about theirRead… Read more »
Top 5 tips for live tweeting a speech in Government
I would go so far as to say live tweeting a speech is the most stressful thing you can do on twitter. We regularly do it from accounts I manage, and I think we now have it down to a fine art. Here are my top 5 tips…. Get a copy of the speech inRead… Read more »
Who Dumped All That Free Speech on My Lawn?
A lively conversation blew through the Ypsilanti, Michigan message boards this week, like discarded coupons churning in the wind. Residents are tired of finding local news site AnnArbor.com’s weekly add papers strewn about their property. Rather than just complain, they’ve taken to SeeClickFix to exchange information and find a solution. It’s proven surprisingly difficult forRead… Read more »
Five Things Obama Should Say in Friday’s MIT Climate Change Speech
A great post from my boss, Jessy Tolkan, executive director of the Energy Action Coalition. This commentary originally appeared on The Huffington Post Green. Almost a year into President Obama’s administration, the young people who turned out and voted for him in record numbers, hopeful that he’ll deliver bold action on climate at home andRead… Read more »
John Stuart Mill: Rolling in his Grave
As cries of “socialist!” and “terrorist!” fly, I am once again amazed at how low we have sunk in our national dialogue. I mean really: our economy’s a mess, we’re stuck in a war we can’t win, people don’t have adequate health care, and our schools suck. But all we can do is name call?Read… Read more »