The broadcast journalist’s new tool: Skype
CBC Radio is wonderfully, fantastically open to freelancers. But one of the harder aspects of working with them is their understandable reluctance to use phone interview clips. Little wonder: phone conversations sound awful, and nearly always have some irritating...Taking blogging to the next level
So you’ve been reading blogs for a while. You get a lot out of it, but you can’t shake the nagging feeling that there has to be more to it than this. Surely you ought to be able to read blogs more easily, filter content more effectively, and maybe even...No comment
Andrew Coyne has shut down the comments section of his blog: I don’t like to be in the censorship business, or picking and choosing which comments to allow and which to reject, and I don’t have the time to monitor hundreds of comments every day. I...A point of order
If the thought of chairing a meeting fills you with dread… if your hands turn clammy if they so much as brush against a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order… if, deep down, you genuinely believe that you can’t wield a gavel without the serious...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...
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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.
