Speaker Confessions http://www.speakerconfessions.com A book of true tales from a veteran public speaker Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:11:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Moving to scottberkun.com http://www.speakerconfessions.com/2011/09/moving-to-scottberkun-com/ http://www.speakerconfessions.com/2011/09/moving-to-scottberkun-com/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:11:23 +0000 Scott http://www.speakerconfessions.com/?p=445 Hi there. I’m writing to let you know I will no longer be posting to speakerconfessions.com. You probably noticed it eons ago, as I haven’t posted here in some time.

I strongly recommend you head over to scottberkun.com, where I do post regularly about public speaking and other topics.

Hope to see you there.

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Enter the four minute presentation – a set of great techniques from 1917.

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Ignite: How speakers prepare

]]> http://www.speakerconfessions.com/2010/05/how-speakers-prepare/feed/ 2 Talk at Google HQ, on Confessions http://www.speakerconfessions.com/2010/01/talk-at-google-hq-on-confessions/ http://www.speakerconfessions.com/2010/01/talk-at-google-hq-on-confessions/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:56:58 +0000 Scott http://www.speakerconfessions.com/2010/01/talk-at-google-hq-on-confessions/ On tour last month I was in Mountain View, and spoke at Google HQ.

You can read about it and watch the full video here.

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I went back in afterward and grabbed all the questions from the chat room during the talk and answered them all here.

Lots of good stuff in there – it’s currently one of the most popular posts on my site.

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Mr. Berkun’s book is packed with tips on how to reduce anxiety and how to speak in public with greater effectiveness. They range from common sense—arrive early, make sure you have back-up copies of your speech, practice—to more advanced tips on what to do when 10 people show up to hear you in a 1,200-person room (cluster the 10 immediately), how to cut off rambling questions and how to fall silent after making a key point, to give the audience a chance to soak it in.

Read the full review on WSJ.com here.

More reviews here.

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