Posts Tagged ‘Speaking’

Obama uses speech to defend war policies

Pledges continued drawdown

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Why does Old Spice video go Viral, but not sell Old Spice?

MarketingVox

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rough draft for 60-90 minute keynote speech on success and personal development

(rough draft for 60-90 minute keynote speech)
(Note from TJ: does anyone have any thoughts on how to make a speech like this more palatable? This is essentially a motivational speech about success that debunks all other motivational gurus. This is a success/motivation speech that is anti success/motivational speech)

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Review of Teleprompterpresident.com

I just stumbled across a website, www.teleprompterpresident.com, which chronicles every single mistake Obama makes on camera (pus it fabricates a few in a funny and mean-spirited way). Even though I suspect that the organizers of the site are avid opponents of Obama, I think they are doing a great service for him. Obama is on [...]

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Obama Teleprompter blunder

No matter how good you are at using the Teleprompter, mistakes are going to happen if you don’t practice. Obama got caught yesterday thanking himself while reading a prompter—he was reading the wrong speech!

http://tinyurl.com/d2f7f6

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How Obama Must Communicate about the Economy

By TJ Walker
Barack Obama’s greatest challenge, perhaps of his entire presidency, will be to get a handle on how to communicate complex economic solutions and principles while trying to solve the financial crisis. The challenges for the Obama Administration are that they must come up with policies that A. Benefit the economy as a whole, [...]

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The Night Before the Big Speech

I am a confident speaker. Very Confident! But even I have my limits. If I had to speak in front of an important audience for the first time and I had to be unshaven, that would shake my confidence. That almost happened to me today. I woke up in Los angeles this morning and went [...]

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Do You Already Know the Answer to Your Question?

I’ve never believed in the old saw, “never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to” unless you are in a court of law. After all, how else would you ever learn anything? But at some point, it is futile to ask questions when you know the answer is extremely negative. On [...]

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I am looking for experts are starting ad networks for the public speaking and presentation industries

Does anyone know of an expert in starting ad networks? I am looking to start an ad network focusing on web sites that deal with the following topics: speaking, public speaking, presentations, powerpoint and media training. If you know of anyone, please have them contact me at tj@tjwalker.com.

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Should I give a PowerPoint presentation?

The following comes from TJ Walker’s upcoming book “The Wisdom of Your Audience”. Consistently, the worst advice speakers and presenters get, comes from everyone who is NOT your audience. The following gives examples of some of the WORST advice people are often given. It is followed by the advice of your audience. Listen to them. [...]

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