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Public-Speaking Tips from Mike Arauz’s Design for Networks Talk

by Michelle Barry Franco May 28, 2010 presentations

Mike Arauz of Undercurrent in New York gave a great talk today for our AdBite meeting today. Here are just a few of the things he did really well that we can learn from and use easily in our own talks: Public Speaking Tips: Thoughts on Mike Arauz of Undercurrent talk for Adbite, Bend, OR [...]

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All Public Speaking is NOT Created Equal

by Michelle October 27, 2009 presentations

Five minutes is really not that long. It takes more than 5 minutes just to get my three daughters from the living room, up our short flight of stairs and into the bathroom to brush teeth at night (often 2X 5 minutes.) You can be five minutes late to a meeting or lunch date and [...]

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3 Ways to Eliminate Public Speaking Anxiety (and other kinds of social anxiety)

by Michelle September 17, 2009 anxiety

My husband and I got married in our (very small) backyard, with forty of our closest friends and family. We wanted it small and intimate. The ceremony was co-created with our guests such that each was invited to bring a reading, item, book, reflection… anything they wanted (a joke began early about performing an interpretive [...]

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Messy Presentations

by Michelle August 4, 2009 amplifying aids

I’m always recommending to people that they actually try to avoid using Powerpoint or other presentation technology. I do this because I meet so many people who “have a really great Powerpoint Presentation [they] could build their talk around.” I cringe when I hear this. I cringe because a presentation is always and foremost about [...]

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