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Six Minutes weekend reviews are back for a third year of bringing you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: new public speaking books; best and worst communicators of 2009; how to tell a story; teleprompters; moving your audience; Toastmasters survey and tips; and more! Resources for Speakers – Public Speaking Books Check out these recently released public speaking and communications books: Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations by Garr Reynolds Speaker’s Edge: Secrets and Strategies for Connecting with Any Audience by Darren LaCroix, Patricia Fripp, Craig Valentine, Ed Tate, Mark Brown Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures by Dan Roam A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking by Dan O’Hair Surviving Dreaded Conversations: How to Talk Through Any Difficult Situation at Work by Donna Flagg Best and Worst Communicators of 2009 Bert Decker reveals his annual list of the best and worst communicators of the year. Speechwriting Kathy Reiffenstein describes how to tell a story .

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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-01-02]

Hot topics to end 2009 – social media (no surprise), lots of research published on how our minds influence our decisions (often more than the data presented in front of us) and search ends the decade showing as much potential for disruption as it did at the start. Blog post: Dell’s B2B Social Media Huddle – Part 1 of a series of 5 posts covering the event Enterprise 2.0 Here’s a selection of links shared during December via Google Reader , Delicious and Twitter

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December 2009 Newsletter

During this – my first, official year of retirement from full-time work – I’ve gone to plays, written about the theatre, helped organise it, advised on it, started a blog to help others find their ways around and through it, and generally pretty much been absorbed in my art form of choice.  The diary says 75 individual meetings or presentations – good grief!  The theatre and I have had a love affair for many years now; my Actors Equity membership card notes 13 March 1973 as my joining date, but that is just the marker of when it became a day job for real; the affair began long before then.  Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Footnotes to my year in theatre

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9 Great Document Collaboration Tools for Teams

On Saturdays, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: cross-culture communication; editing your presentation by asking “why?”; addressing the elephant in the room; pitfalls to presenting with someone else’s slides; the growth of Death By PowerPoint; how a video camera will help you improve as a speaker; and a must-read parody: How the Grinch Spoke at Christmas

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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2009-12-19]

Online Conference eCommunity users can: Create profiles Connect with others attending the conference before, during and after the conference online IM Participate in text-based chat rooms and forums Schedule itineraries Setup times to meet with exhibitors or vendors View live or archived presentations Share photos from the face-to-face event View venue and tradeshow floor plans Setup appointments with exhibitors and vendors And a host of other features Many online conference eCommunities integrate with social networking platforms like blogs , Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter and Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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14 Online eCommunity Options For Your Next Annual Meeting

The cycle as presented is still too purely sequential, though in the final minute Raford hints at the fractal nature of the changes – in fact we encounter aspects of simplicity, complicatedness, complexity (less commonly chaos) in most situations we face – we therefore need a better account of the simultaneity of activity in all four Cynefin domains. VERY interesting interpretation of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework from Noah Raford , adding a temporal, cyclical dimension to it by blending it with Gunderson and Holling ’s cycle of adaptive change. What interests Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Blog>> Cynefin, Collapse, and Adaptive Change

I would like to make a few comments that connect to two excellent recent Kubatana blogs­the first by Amanda Atwood concerning Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the second by Catherine Makoni concerning the troublesome PSI research/adverts . Both blogs effectively highlight worrying ideological agendas and human rights violating desires for control over peaceful citizens.  Moreover, both blogs increase our awareness of the negative consequences when political leaders, research projects, and TV ad executives allow fear of difference to direct the way they think and how they develop policies, design research, and disseminate information.  It is with pain in my heart that in the last few days I have been inundated with people spewing ideas predicated on fear of difference.  Just the other day I read a fear of difference article by William Lungisani Chigidi entitled Shona Taboos: The Language of Manufacturing Fears for Sustainable Development

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Fear of difference

Episode 40 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe ( @ifroggy ), Brad Williams ( @williamsba ), and Kevin Yank ( @sentience ).

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SitePoint Podcast #40: A Googol of Googles

On Tuesday (December 15), I will be presenting (in English) in the theatre at the Apple Store Ginza beginning at 7:00 pm. I’ll be sharing some simple visual principles and design lessons from the world around us that can be applied to presentation design and beyond. I’ll talk a bit about the contents of the new book — presentation zen design — which went to press last week and we’ll have some copies of the first book in English and Japanese to give away (PZD will not be available until about Dec 27).

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Presentation at Apple Store Ginza (Tokyo) Dec 15, 7:00 pm

The world leaders will be finalizing an agreement which is to replace the Kyoto protocol and move the world closer to dealing constructively with some of the growing challenges we are facing in terms of the present and future climate changes. 5 visual thinkers and practitioners present inside COP15 with WWF We are a group of Photo: suburbanbloke @ Flickr As many of you may know COP15 , The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is taking place right now in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Help Create a Visual Difference at COP15, The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

Pharma Marketing Blog : PhRMA Proposes FDA-Approved Use of Universal Safety Symbol for Branded Tweets & SE Ads PhRMA says in its slide presentation ( see here ): Universal symbol could be used on search engines, blogs , microblogs, video Pharma Marketing Interesting idea, although I’m not sure a symbol alone provides enough assurance for consumers … never mind the governance aspects around use of the symbol, monitoring, enforcement, etc. Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Twitter Symbology Proposed For The FDA

Answers, news and blog posts, and Twitter content. Judging by the screenshots and preview videos, it’s an elegant marriage of the two types of information, and, best of all, you don’t have to go to a separate site or do any kind of special settings changes to enable the new real-time searching. If you do want to focus your search on only the most current information, however, you can select “Latest” from the search options menu to view an entire page full of tweets, new blog posts, and fresh news content related to the topic you’re searching.

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Google Gets True Real-time Search

Here are 20 of them: e-Learning Methodology Toolkit: templates to design and manage your e-learning projects Free downloadable storyboard templates Amazing eLearning Flash Template Bundle Storyboard Templates and Resources How to Create a Visual Design for Your E-Learning Scenario Here’s a Free PowerPoint Template & How I Made It Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Free Storyboarding templates Storyboards Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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eLearning Templates – 20 Resources

As the blog author Marc Ngui notes: “The drawings were created as a means of understanding the ideas being presented in the book. Thanks to someone I follow on Twitter (natch!), I recently came across a very interesting series of interpretive sketches of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schzophrenia (Wikipedia link) by Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari , translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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A Lovely Interpretive Sketch of Shifting From (Traditional) Hierarchies to Wirearchies

On Saturdays, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: new public speaking books; analysis of a contest-winning humorous speech; eye contact and facial expression tips; the case for white space; wardrobe tips; and comics that speakers are sure to enjoy. Resources for Speakers – Public Speaking Books Check out these recently released public speaking and communications books: Leadership Communication by Deborah Barrett Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun Say It Like Obama and WIN!: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision by Shel Leanne Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead by Nancy Ancowitz The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers by Nannette Rundle Carroll In Review: Six Minutes Speaking in Church: Lectern or No Lectern?

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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2009-12-05]

Blogs can be free – for example You can also pay for experts to run blogs and for more expensive systems. If for presentations or tutorials, check out SlideShare for PowerPoints – http://www.slideshare.net/ – it’s free and only requires the creation and uploading of slide shows There’s lots on Google about podcasting, and it’s easy enough to The other day I wrote up a collection of information for a non-profit starting to get into social media. Thought I might as well share it more broadly

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Web Communications (Almost Always) for Free

Webinars these days can include audio, video and slide presentations , some with audience participation, and be either live or on-demand. Hubspot — While I do not endorse the Hubspot product, it does offer useful archived webinars like “ 5 Tips for Advanced B2B Business Blogging ” and “ How to Use Social Media to Manage Your Company Brand Online ” There are also live webinars. I’m a firm believer in the adage “you get what you pay for.” 8221; However, I also can’t deny the incredible value being put out onto the Internet Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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10 Distance Learning Opportunities Through Webinars

But just as blogging and the 2.0 interface but with exceptionally robust data collection, storage and presentation engines. Many of the great discoveries in science have involved “seeing” patterns when no one else can. This map is one of the most important of these “seeing” moments

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2.0 Comes to Science – The Emergence of Citizen Scientists!

At times during the week I found myself flipping backwards and forwards from one blog to another whilst fielding emails, telephone, and Skype calls from clients and collaborators. I’ve been working for about ten days or so creating two new blogs , one for a private client, the other to serve as a hub for a conference project. The blog for the client is designed to highlight a niche family Image via CrunchBase You know the old saying, ‘It never rains, but it pours’?

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Creating a super-mobile conference blog