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To PowerPoint or Not to PowerPoint − That is the Question!
Is it always clear whether we should use PowerPoint or not in public speaking? This speaking coach thought so…until a presentation colleague had me eating crow on the notion!
Full Speech Ahead! “What does it take to pull off 20 years of morning radio hosting?” Interview with Star 94.1’s Delana Bennett
Delana Bennett has been a familiar voice in San Diego on numerous stations for almost 20 years. She is known for her fun, outgoing personality and the ability to make people smile with her unique brand of humor every morning...
Labeling your flash drive
If you ever take flash drives anywhere, they can be left behind or fall out of a pocket. I recommend always creating a top level folder like below. That way, if someone finds it and plugs it in to be able to figure out who owns it, they can quickly see the answer and...
How to clip anything from your PC or Mac screen to make it a .jpg or paste it elsewhere
Snipping Tool is a great free tool built into Windows (and yes, I explain how to easily simulate this on Mac at the end). With it, you can cut any part of what your see on your screen and either save it as a jpg or copy it into Clipboard to paste into word, email,...
Who was San Diego and why is the city called that?
As a long time resident of the area, I suddenly realized that I had no idea how this area got named. I also discovered that no one I knew had any idea either. So I did a little research. Many assume Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first of the Europeans to tread upon...
Full Speech Ahead! “If you can’t say something nice, what DO you say?”: Interview with Sarita Maybin
Speaking coach Milo Shapiro interviews Sarita Maybin: Sarita Maybin's book by this name provides practical approaches and positive phrases for those times when you need to say something NOT so nice. Learn how to constructively clue someone in, deflect the negative...
Public Speaking: Don’t Kill Those “Butterflies” in the Stomach!
When I answer my phone as a public speaking coach and it's a new potential client, often times within about 30 seconds, the word “fear" comes up, as well as its cousins: “nerves” and “anxiety.” As I've talked about in previous articles, for most people this is not a...
Actor Seth Rogen on Perseverance:
“I really always worked hard, because I recognized from a pretty young age it was one of the only things I could control. I remember I did karate as a kid, at the Jewish Community Center, and when I started I was the worst in the class, I was the worst of 25 Jewish...
FastKeys is a cheap, easy way to save you a ton of typing through Autocorrection
FastKeys is my favorite time saving tool. Take a look at this video I create to see why. It's cheap, easy, and saves me endless cutting and pasting or hand typing, preventing typos. It works in your email, Word docs, on websites (never type your address again!), and...
The Golden Rule Ain’t So Bright
Kids today might not know the theme to the Lone Ranger, what a pen-pal is, or what a phone jack is for, but some concepts do endure. Ask any fourth grader in the U.S. what the Golden Rule is and they will likely say, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...
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