NOTE: This post is “from the archives”—or rather, from the early days when video calls were a new technology and Skype was the gold standard. **** My first experience of speaking to an audience via Skype was a 2011 conversation on BNET about Anne Loehr’s and my then-new book, Managing the Unmanageable: How to Motivate Even Read More
Public Speaking Tech: eMail to Conference Calls, Social Media to PowerPoint
Public Speaking Tip 24: Write an Email that Gets Read
Public speaking can take lots of different forms — and today, those include what you share on social media, and even the humble email message. How many emails do you receive each day? 50? 100? 200? Those numbers aren’t unusual — and everyone you write to is struggling with that same deluge of (mostly irrelevant) Read More
For Disaster Communications, Keep a Wired Telephone Handy
In 2012, my husband and I were among the lucky east-coasters who didn’t lose power during Hurricane Sandy. But if we had, we would have been prepared to communicate with the outside world through a handy-dandy, old school device that doesn’t need to be charged, as a cell phone does. It’s called a wired (in our case, Read More
For a Conversation that Builds a (Real) Relationship, Use These Phone Tips
I recently wrote a blog post called For Public Speaking (and Business) Success, Pick Up the Phone. The idea was that, no matter how good your social media skills, there comes a moment when you just can’t beat hearing someone’s voice, in real time. When that need strikes, you should pick up the phone. But Read More