Know your audience
Previously, we talked about how speakers (or their staff) need to negotiate a reasonable speaking time with their hosts. It’s part of going into every speaking engagement with your own agenda: a clear idea of what you want to accomplish, and the circumstances...It isn’t an invitation. It’s a bargaining position.
Entertainment mogul David Geffen once gave Lynda Obst a key piece of advice: never go into a meeting without an agenda. He didn’t mean a schedule. He meant that, before you walk into a meeting, you should know what you want to achieve It’s good advice for...Now here’s an iPod ad Apple isn’t going to run anytime soon.
Unless, of course, there’s a hidden market of speech geeks like moi. Jason Kottke offers 50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod, including this one: American Rhetoric has made available audio versions of many famous political speeches, including MLK’s “I...“He talked exactly what I wanted to hear.”
Dammit, they’ve found out: this is exactly how we write political speeches.“Speechless” is on TV right now…
…we’re just catching the last ten minutes. Is it the worst ending to the worst political movie ever made, or is there an even more appalling candidate?
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
