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Great Speaking Vol. 2 Number 09
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GREAT SPEAKING
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Vol. 2 Number 9 - June 1, 2000
Publisher: Tom Antion tomAntion@aol.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
(Beginners should read this too)
3. Humor Technique Series
4. Speaker Marketing Tip
5. Speaker Humor
6. Websites for Speakers
7. Tech Tip with Mike Rounds
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
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LADIES ON TV by Great Speaking reader Karen Puckett
Hi Tom: I enjoyed your recent newsletter, and had a comment
about a man keeping his tie straight during a speaking
engagement http:www.antion.com/ezinebackissues.htm v2n8.
A similar topic applies to women.
At one of my former places of employment, part of the new
employee orientation was sitting through several hours of
a customer service presentation on video tape. In addition
to being a painfully unanimated speaker, the presenter wore
a suit with the biggest, loudest scarf around her neck and
over her shoulder. All of us poor souls in the room watching
were left with no recollection of the content of the
presentation, but a indelible image of the infamous scarf!
As you know, not only should the length of a speech be
appropriate for the audience, but the speaker should make sure
that their appearance is not distracting.
Thanks for all the great tips.
Karen Puckett
Tom's reply: Thanks Karen for your input. Also, keep in mind
that the beautiful scarf you referred to might be perfect if
you were on a big stage in front of a large audience. Always
keep your delivery medium in mind.
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2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
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ADD MAGIC TO YOUR PRESENTATIONS by Tom Antion
There is just something about a magic trick that grabs
people. The nice thing about it is that as a presenter who
uses magic to make a point, you are not held to the high
standards you would be held to if you were a professional
magician. I do some simple magic that would probably make a
real magician throw up, yet I get comments from the audience
that they loved my "illusions."
Think about some of the points you make during your speech
that might need a little extra pizazz to make them memorable.
Visit a magic shop and tell the proprietor what you want to
accomplish and that your skill level is zero. Most good magic
shops have literally thousands of tricks to pick from for
all skill levels and all audience sizes.
Magic tricks are also a fun way to add some lightheartedness
and WOW factor to your presentations. The points you make
and the comedy aspect of the magic usually come from the
"patter" (what the magician says while doing the trick). You
can even buy books of comic patter. Many magic tricks are
now on video which makes them infinitely easier to learn
than trying to read them from a book. An excellent tape for
rope tricks is "Daryl's Rope Tricks # 7." Your local magic
shop probably has it and if they don't they can probably
order it.
I really like to learn magic from videos because you can see
the trick in action. Reading them from a book is OK, and
very useful, but you just can't beat video training.
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3. HUMOR TECHNIQUE
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BLOOPERS
Bloopers are clumsy mistakes that are usually made in
public. The television show "TV's Bloopers and Practical
Jokes" and many blooper books are indicators of the interest
we have in other people's goofs. Here are two from "All
Time Great Bloopers" by Blooper Snooper Kermit Schafer and
one from "More Press Boners" by Earle Tempel, and how you
might use them in a presentation.
=> A while back I heard about a DJ on WIOD in Miami, Florida
who said, "This is Alan Courtney speaking. Don't forget,
tonight at nine, our special guest . . . (pause) . . .will be
. . . I forgot." Well, I haven't forgotten why we are here
today . . . or (For an introducer) I couldn't possibly
forget who is here with us today.
=> Mayor Daley of Chicago was being interviewed on TV
following the riots during the Democratic convention. The
mayor stated, "The police in Chicago are not here to create
disorder, they are here to preserve it." I hope I don't
create or preserve any disorder in my presentation today.
=> From The San Leandro, CA News: I saw a notice in the
newspaper the other day. It said, "Industrial Boulevard is
empty because it is a road to nowhere. Work is underway to
extend it." If we keep developing the obsolete widget. We
will be on the road to nowhere too.
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KEEP IT SIMPLE by Tom Antion
Your homepage of your website should be as simple as
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I believe in continuous improvement so I got some outside
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just too many choices for a visitor landing on my home page
and that many of the buttons down the left hand side could
be combined. My consultant encouraged me to separate my
different types of visitors right at the homepage and take
them down different paths. The two main visitors I get are
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I have gotten much feedback that the site is now much easier
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5. SPEAKER HUMOR
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=> The worst part about the speed of light is that it
makes mornings come awfully early.
=> Man is the lowest cost non-linear computer system capable
of being mass produced by unskilled labor.
=> Miracle drug: One that you only pay ten bucks for.
=> Miracle drug: One that your kids will take without
spitting it out.
=> When you wish upon a star don't forget it takes two
hundred million light years to receive the request.
=> What can you expect of a universe that started out as
nothing but a lot of hot air? . . .(sounds like many
speakers I know) hahahaha
=> One good thing about the computer age. We can be wrong
at astonishing high speeds.
=> If technology is making the world smaller, how come the
phone bill keeps going up?
=> Genetics: The study of which parents family is responsible
for the child's bad behavior.
=> Computers will never replace humans until they learn how
to laugh at the boss's jokes.
=> Behind every successful man stands a bunch of amazed
co workers.
=> You know it's going to be a bad week when your boss mails
you the want ads.
=> Business meeting tip: When making a point, make sure it's
not with your head.
=> If you can keep your composure when a crisis occurs, you
must have a fall guy.
=> If your parents can't afford to send you to medical
school, donate your body to science and you'll get
there eventually.
=> Genius: someone too smart to earn a living.
=> How many men would continue to watch sports if they had
to run on a treadmill to keep the TV going?
=> The worst thing about being a good sport is that you have
to lose to prove it.
=> You know you have a lousy baseball team when they start
selling hot dogs to go in the fifth inning.
=> So Humpty Dumpty had a great fall? What about the rest
of his year?
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6. USEFUL WEBSITES
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http://www.cais.com/hotels Very handy search site for
hotels that have high speed Internet connections
http://www.hellodirect.com All kinds of cool telephones
and accessories
http://www.webhelp.com/home.html A search engine that has
live people help you.
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7. TECH TIPS WITH MIKE ROUNDS
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Hello! You've got phone charges! Watch those hidden phone
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credit card. Sometimes, they charge for attempted calls
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charged to your bill and they'll usually remove them.
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