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Speak and Be Heard: TJ Walker in WorkingWomen.com


Whether it’s your first team meeting, a big presentation or just introducing yourself at a networking event, learning how to speak with confidence can be a daunting task. Here are tips from TJ Walker, who can help you put your best self forward.

Learn to Like Your Voice: Most people hate the sound of their voice because they’ve heard it on tape, voicemail or video. For most of us, our voices aren’t horrible or wrong, we’re just used to hearing it through our own skulls and it sounds different. The rule is simple: don’t worry about trying to alter your voice; just get over it. It’s much more important to sound compassionate and engaging.

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Compelling Stories for Investor Pitches

When making a pitch to potential investors, tell great stories that they will relate to and that will draw them in. If you speak their language through stories you will have greater success.

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Presentation Training Tip: If you get invited to give a speech, then speak. If you get invited to a reading, then read. (However, great authors don’t read at their own book readings, they tell stories instead.)


Presentation Training Tip: If you get invited to give a speech, then speak. If you get invited to a reading, then read. (However, great authors don’t read at their own book readings, they tell stories instead.)

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New Opera in London: “Anna Nicole”


I did a double take when I saw this headline. But then I found out that the creator is the same guy who made the Jerry Springer Opera. I saw the Jerry Springer Opera in London 7 or 8 years ago and I loved it. So why not Anna Nicole as an opera? Her life was certainly bizarre and was filled with extraordinary highs and lows.

So sign me up for tickets if and when the Anna Nicole Opera comes to New York City.

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TOP BLOGS OF THE DAY- What TJ is reading


Turn Valentine’s Day into Generosity Day

How to make work-life balance work

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Presentation Tip of the Day: You don’t have to make every single audience member love you or even a majority of the audience members love you. But if 95% are chanting that they want you to resign, be fired, or leave the country, chances are, it’s time to find a new line of work.


Presentation Tip of the Day: You don’t have to make every single audience member love you or even a majority of the audience members love you. But if 95% are chanting that they want you to resign, be fired, or leave the country, chances are, it’s time to find a new line of work.

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Piers Morgan Conducts Worst Interview Ever


Last night I caught Piers Morgan on CNN. He was interviewing Michael Oher, the guy who was the central character in the Sandra Bullock movie, The Blind Side. I hate to be mean, but the interview was an embarrassment for all involved.

Oher said two “uhs” and three “ya knows” for every single other word that came out of his mouth. It was painful and horrific. Look, not everyone has to be great at everything.

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Ex-President Bush’s daughter supports gay marriage- Video analysis


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Barbara Bush supports marriage equality in NY. A video analysis of what it means for her to break rank from her father’s point of view.

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Virginia poised to ban teacher-student texting, facebooking

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What are the benefits of online interactive learning?

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Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Interact With Their Kids

TJ Walker offers analysis of how a parent can join the social media world without angering their kids.

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Behind the scenes and in the studio at TJ Walker Interactive

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How to be a good storyteller -presentation training


What are the benefits of being a good storyteller and how you can use this skill during your next presentation.

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Snooki Shores Up $11,000 Pay Day To Appear At Tanning Salon

The next time you laugh at the long lines of contestants waiting to audition for a reality show take a look at this story from TMZ. Snooki from MTV’s Jersey Shore is cashing in on her reality fame at the tune of $11,000 a day for an appearance at a tanning salon.

This speaks to the larger issue of fame and why so many people chase it on reality tv shows. If you can gain notoriety or infamy you can use it as a personal checkbook for many years after your show or appearance has gone off the air.

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Top-Ten buzzwords of 2010 released on LinkedIn

It’s good to use words that people understand and convey meaning, but at some point, words become so popular, that they lose all meaning. Click below to see a full list of the most over-used words on LinkedIn for 2010.

And for goodness sake, don’t tell anyone you have “extensive experience” in 2011.

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Twitter now valued at $3.7 Billion

And yet it makes less than $100 million. Is this rational? Time will tell. For the moment, being the industry leader in short-burst world wide communication seems like a winner.

It’s as if someone invested TV and had a monopoly with 90% of the world audience. How Twitter is going to make big money in the future? To be determined???

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Rabbit Ears Perk Up for Free HDTV

How to watch great TV without cable or the Internet. It turns out that rabbit ears are great on new digital TVS. A little known fact is this: reception of a digital channel (which all broadcast stations are now) with a digital rabbit ears on a digital TV is actually BETTER than the reception you will get on Cable TV due to compression issues. So if you mostly watch network fare like American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, why are you wasting your money on cable each month?
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What’s more persuasive, Fast talkers or Slow talkers

I’ve always taught people to speaker slower in order to come across more understandable and persuasive, but new research suggests that’s not the case. It turns out, it depends on whether people already agree or disagree with you what is more persuasive. The results are surprising. Read more at PsyBlog.

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Obama is a big hit with voters – in India

Obama is winning new friends in India. His big speech yesterday was well-received. His move to endorse India for a slot as a permanent member of the UN Security Council was a message that generated great press and resonated with the political establishment as well as the public in India.

Now, if only he could make similar good speeches in the US.

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Bristol Palin Didn’t Vote

The producers at Dancing With The Stars must really run a tight ship. Was it the hours of practice and taping that prevented Bristol Palin from voting or was it just an example that the self proclaimed Momma Grizzle can’t even get her own daughter rallied to vote?

As a public figure you have to be prepared to answer the most basic questions about yourself and as the daughter of a high profile politician Bristol Palin should have been prepared when it came to the topic of voting. Someone in her camp of public relations people and handlers should have taken that one extra step to get her an absentee ballot so that she could have avoided the embarrassing situation that comes with having to admit that she did not take part in the election that her mother has been such a part of.

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