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Best Public Speaking Tips and Techniques: Weekend Review [2009-07-11]

On Saturdays, we survey the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: new public speaking books; opening with humor; speech frameworks; storytelling; vocal habits to eliminate; speaking to hearing impaired people; slide design; and transitioning to professional speaking. Resources for Speakers – Public Speaking Books Check out these recently released public speaking and communications books:

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Book Review One Smart Cookie

One Smart Cookie: How a Housewife’s Chocolate Chip Recipe Turned into a Multimillion-Dollar Business: The Story of Mrs. Fields Cookies by Debbi Fields is a must read for anyone in business. This book was published in 1987 and the content is still relevant today. Whether a direct sales consultant, freelancer, WAHM-wannabe or any other entrepreneur this book will inspire you. It’s an easy read sprinkled with humor. Debbi was a stay at home wife and mom who took her passion to build a thriving bu

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Almost too absurd to be true

Reading the news this week almost resembles reading articles from The Onion – only without the humor and the wit. The public/media reactions to events not only crazy, but it’s also got me wonderng if we’re even making efforts to protect the right species.In Troy, MO, the city council unanimously approved an ordinance that bans all new ‘pit bulls’ from a city (as well as any mixed breed that contains “an element” of these breeds — I’m not sure if you could write anything more vague than that).

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Enough Already! SNL Drones On With Political Parodies

It started with Tina Fey’s brilliant Saturday Night Live portrayal of Sarah Palin. But SNL kept banging the drum. The humor behind SNL’s persistent attempts to cement itself into the business of political satire is wearing thin with each successive parody or reenactment. But sometimes politics is ridiculous enough that it doesn’t need pointing out.

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