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December 2, 2009
Q&A from webcast on public speaking
We had about 500 people in the webcast today about the new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker – as promised here are all of the questions asked in the chat room during the talk, with answers and some snarky commentary.
Slides from the talk here (3MB PDF).
Link for listening to the recording of the webcast will be posted here soon.
Here are all the questions I pulled from the chat room transcript.
Q: When you started out, did you enjoy speaking in public?
A: Definitely No. Don't know many who...
Live webcast in 20 minutes! (free)
I'll be talking about Confessions, the new book, live, online. You can listen in for free here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1494
I'll be answering any questions I miss right here on the blog in a few hours.
December 1, 2009
November 30, 2009
Reviews for Confessions so far
Reviews are coming in every few days now – here's what we have so far. All have been super positive, especially a little periodical called the Wall Street Journal.
Chris Brogan, video review
Blog Critics
Developer Connection
Wall Street Journal
Promotion is in full gear, and you can see the next leg of my book tour here. Including a live, free webcast Wednesday of this week.
Confessions book tour: SF update
Update: In NYC this week. Hope you can make it out to one of these gigs.
The schedule is still coming together, but here's what I have so far:
Confessions of a public speaker, book tour
Boston, 11/1 thru 11/6
UI14, Lecture on Confessions of a public speaker
Wednesday
12-1pm, MIT Sloan Business school (Room
3-4pm, Harvard University (Aldrich
5:30pm, U of Mass, Boston (Heally Library, 11th
Thursday(11/5)10:30-1pm, Fidelity...
November 24, 2009
Wall Street Journal reviews Confessions
Really great, high profile review here – check it out
Mr. Berkun's book is packed with tips on how to reduce anxiety and how to speak in public with greater effectiveness. They range from common sense—arrive early, make sure you have back-up copies of your speech, practice—to more advanced tips on what to do when 10 people show up to hear you in a 1,200-person room (cluster the 10 immediately), how to cut off rambling questions and how to fall silent after making a key point, to give the...
Confessions keynote from Web 2.0 expo
Here's the keynote from last week – I'm talking about storytelling, twitter, and making connections.
The comments up on youtube are quite harsh – apparently IE sucks, and I'm dumb as hell.
The challenge of visible twitter at conferences
Last week I gave a keynote at Web 2.0 expo NYC, and as you can see in the photo below, one of the interesting things this year was the twitter feed for the conference was placed on stage behind the keynote speakers. Any tweet with #w2e was put up live, on stage, a few seconds later. The slides, if any, speakers used were placed on the large screens to the left and right of the stage. I've seen twitter on stage, and presented with it up before, but never right smack dab behind me on stage.
I'...
November 16, 2009
Confessions book tour: NYC update
Update: In NYC this week. Hope you can make it out to one of these gigs.
The schedule is still coming together, but here's what I have so far:
Confessions of a public speaker, book tour
Boston, 11/1 thru 11/6
UI14, Lecture on Confessions of a public speaker
Wednesday
12-1pm, MIT Sloan Business school (Room
3-4pm, Harvard University (Aldrich
5:30pm, U of Mass, Boston (Heally Library, 11th
Thursday(11/5)10:30-1pm, Fidelity...
November 12, 2009
Webcast: Confessions of a Public Speaker (free!)
I'll be doing a free web-cast about the new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, on Dec 2nd, 10am PST. Details below. Please help spread the word!
Confessions of a Public Speaker
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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