When I first started seeing if other people were blogging about presentation skills and public speaking, I came across a site by Andrew Dlugan that had gathered a list of twenty-seven sites together. Twenty-seven!
By the timeI had gotten around to getting an RSS reader, the list had grown rather a lot.
I track every one of the (currently) 106 blogs on public speaking. There are a lot of people out there who are writing very pertinent stuff about presentations and public speaking.
My specialism is authentic, spontaneous, conscious presentation skills for specialists. The thing I pay particularly close attention to is feeding your patternmaker, your internal database, with what works in presentations – that’s what the Presentation Analysis work is all about.
My specialism is not PowerPoint, information display, business storytelling, speechwriting, sales presentations or media training. Or even, really, hints and tips about giving presentations.
There are other people who spend their lives blogging about those topics
I presume that, as a specialist, you are pretty involved in keeping up-to-date with your own area of expertise. Becoming a presentation specialist too (unless you already are!) is one thing too many. Also these blogs are aimed at all sorts of different groups of people.
So, you’ve got two choices.
1) You either subscribe to the 106 public speaking blogs yourself, find the ones you like, and follow those. If that’s what you choose, then click the big orange link above. (There’s a way of doing it in bulk – you don’t have to click each link!).
Or
2) you trust me to find the bits that I think are most relevant to you.
I’m going to assume that at least some of you want me to do the latter, so, in addition to posting my own material, I will be posting links here to articles that I think contain a particular nugget of usefulness. If someone has already said it well, you don’t need me to paraphrase it, you might as well read the source. Sometimes I will quote the article, sometimes I will comment on it, sometimes it might just be a link saying ‘check this out for…’
This way you’ll discover the people who are writing things you like, and then, if you like their style, you can follow their blogs as well as mine.
Sound fair?
Good. Starts next week.
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Here are a couple of articles I’ve already referenced:
~ Using numbers in business communication
~ Using graphs in presentations – Seth Godin talks sense…
~ How to avoid using Stupid Generic Photographs in your PowerPoint slides
Enjoy!
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