Over the weekend, I spent some time on campus here in Corvallis, experiencing some of the Homecoming events. One of the events was a free outdoor concert by country musician, and Corvallis native, Jackson Michelson. Now, it was a chilly night, with a lot of other student activities going on, and so the crowd wasn’t…
“The powerful speech pause might be the most important public speaking technique you will ever learn. This secret is something that I’ve used for many years. Dramatic pauses are so powerful that they should be illegal. In music, all of the beauty is contained in the silences between the notes. In speaking, the drama and…
These are really good. As a trainer, the one I liked the best was the last tip: Visualize rather than memorize your speech. If you try memorizing your speech word by word, your performance will suffer, Qahtani said. He likes to visualize a map of certain points in his speech that he fills in during…
Generally speaking, I like the idea. Where it falls flat for me is when someone sends me their travel itinerary so that I know their coming and goings, and Google adds the trip to my calendar. If they can get a filter for that sort of thing, that would be great. Are you listening Google?…
The nervousness before going in front of an audience is natural, and inherited from our ancestors. This brings to mind two points: 1. You can learn to move past it by understanding that the fear is probably overblown in your head. Truly, your mind is in fight or flight mode to protect you from dying,…
If you don’t, ISIS supporting script kiddies might just deface it. Honestly, from my own experience with a SQL injection that was a result of a WordPress community site that I had shuttered but left installed on the server, let me just say that if you are doing your own install of WordPress on a…