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The Future of Internet video on Public Speaking Blogs
Posted by TJ Walker in Audio/Video Technology, Public Speaking Skills on January 10, 2008
I’ve just gone through a list of 70 of the top public speaking blogs. I was struck by how few actually had experts speaking about speaking in a video or audio format.
As much as youtube and internet video get attention these days, text is still the default medium for people who wish to communicate ideas on the web. How much longer will this be the case? I started doing an Internet radio talk show in 1998—nobody listened. In 2000 I started a daily video and audio political blog—no one watched. Three years ago, I started doing daily speaking video segments on The Speaking Channel. The audience has been, shall we charitably say, less than Superbowl sized.
The Speaking Channel Re-launches
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills on January 9, 2008
We have just re-organized and re-launched The Speaking Channel into 27 different communities. We found it was too confusing to put people into one main site because people thought we were just about professional speakers or just about PowerPoint. Now, we have things sub-divided into neater categories–or at least that is our hope. Please take a look at the site and send us feedback on any additional hubs you think we may have left out.
Why I am starting this Public Speaking Blog
Posted by TJ Walker in Uncategorized on December 28, 2007
I confess, I underestimated the power of blogs. For years I treated them as just another distribution method, like a fax or an email service. Now I have come to learn (belatedly) that blogs are their own end, in and of themselves.
For years I told people that I blogged. I did, indeed, write a daily column, occasionally about stuff in the news. And this column was posted at either www.tjsights.com  www.speakingchannel.tv. But I wasn’t writing a true blog. I wasn’t connecting to the greater blog community and I wasn’t linking to the rest of the world. I was simply taking an old-media world column and shoe-horning it into a different format. It wasn’t working. Read the rest of this entry »
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