Eight lessons from Nazi Propaganda
On my way through Austin, Texas last week I had a free afternoon and on a whim went to…
Category: Public Speaking
How To Be a Better Speaker – The Short Honest Truth
For any skill, the only way to improve is through practice. Reading about that skill is not practice. Watching…
Why I Loved Webstock & What Organizers Can Learn
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking for a second time at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand. Natasha…
Q&A from Toughest Public Speaking Situations
I did an entire presentation on How To Overcome Tough Presentation Situations, based on Confessions of A Public Speaker. If…
What are the toughest public speaking situations?
On Tuesday 1/28 I’ll be doing a free, live webcast (register here) about public speaking, hosted by O’Reilly Media.…
How To Handle A Heckler
It’s rare to get heckled when giving a lecture, yet it’s a top fear for many people. My own…
When Is Something Worth Teaching?
This month I’m posting every day, picking the top voted reader question and answering it. With 37 votes, submitted by Andrew…
How to present well without slides
If you were having an important conversation with a friend at a restaurant, would you pull out a projector…
Updated: Speaking checklist for great talks (Printable)
I hired Eva Giselle to design a proper checklist based on the popular post, How To Prepare: Checklist for Great Talks.…
Why I sit in the back row at conferences
Clay Hebert recently posted on the The Best Conference Hack, which is simply sitting in the front. As a frequent…
Blame the speaker or the organizer?
Linda at Cook for Good asked me about Godin’s recent post Communication is a path, not an event: The other…
Advice for speakers bored with their own material
A basic rule offered in Confessions of a Public Speaker is to pick material you care deeply about, since…
How to Run a Good Workshop
Workshops are hopeful things. They’re sold on so much promise, but that promise is often dashed as students discover…
The Best Books On Public Speaking
A feature of some of my books is a ranked bibliography. I rank books that I read while doing…
Great talk: Life on a Möbius Strip
One reason I rarely get excited about TED talks, although I do enjoy many of them, is I’m drawn…
99 second presentations
A running joke in the world of presentations is: how short can they be? They used to be an…
What I learned from Powerpoint Karaoke
Everyone has fears about regular public speaking, but what if you have to present someone else’s slides? And see them…
How to be a great host (at Ignite)
Seattle Ignite, an evening of fast presentations similiar to Pecha Kucha, runs like clockwork. As the original and longest running…
Haiku Deck: a simple way to make better presentations (review)
I recently wrote a harsh review of Prezi, focusing on how that tool makes it easy to make distracting,…
Why I hate Prezi
One of the many jokes about Powerpoint is how much time people who use it spend picking transitions between…