Toastcaster 12 Avoid the Dues Blues, written 3 days ago, Toastcaster QuickTip October is not too far away and here's how your club can avoid the dues blues - Toastmasters Deadline Oct 1     - Get Dues in Early    - Offer Annual Payment/ Discounts/ Incentives for early payment - Create Fee Str...

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The Mashup Show in Social Web Presentations 2.0, written 1 day ago, Yep, you can see that I'm really hooked by that kinda video presentation services in the Social Web 2.0 times. Hot star Ominisio married Google, and old Zentation continued his beta as semi-pro. They don't just bet on the mashup of ...

How Do I Speak Without Sounding like a 'Know-it-all'?, written 3 weeks ago, A client recently asked me, 'How do I share my successes without looking like a know it all?'   This was a fair question. Peter had taken a business from near bankruptcy to one of the best performing businesses in his indus...

We are fine!, written 3 days ago, Updated 11:30 AM - September 4, 2008: Well, Hurricane Gustav's visit was not as destructive as it could have been but it was still a very bad storm. In our neighborhood, it appears that I was hardest hit. I had three big oak trees down in my front yard. (During Katr...

The Phone Interview and the Cheat Sheet, written 1 day ago, In revising The Interviewing Guidebook for a second edition, I've been adding some new material that I thought might be useful to those using the 1st edition. Here is a brief--to be more finely edited--discussion of some suggestions for the...

Why Yes Men lose out, written 2 weeks ago, In my latest video from Your Business Channel, I discuss why it is important not to accept every invitation to business networking events but think about where that event fits into your networking strategy and why you want to go.Business TV show: Andy Lopat...

A Thousand Virtual Worlds Bloom…but where are we headed?, written 2 weeks ago, Randy Hinrichs of 2b3d turned me on to this cool video called 50 Virtual Worlds in 7 minutes. It is well worth a look: Given the explosion of virtual world new entrants, K-Zero did a nice job of trying to tag a lot of t...

Well Trained - 1 Tim 4:7-8, written 1 week ago, Hi everybody, how are we feeling now that we are half way through the week? We've learnt quite a lot already. We know for sure that we are running, but not aimlessly, we have our reward in Jesus and what he has done for us on the cross. These verses in...

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A great resource on how to become a better speaker and presenter. The official blog of the free web conferencing site, Cool Conference Live, coolconferencelive.com.

What you imagine is what you get? (WYIIWYG), written 2 weeks ago, Remember when the phrase "WYSIWYG" was first introduced? I do. I was working at IBM at the time working as part of the "DisplayWriter" team (this was the a dedicated wordprocessing machine). I remember hearing and ...

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Pagan Pride Day (Fee: Unspecified), written 3 days ago, Organizer: Enchanted Moon | Event Dates: 10/4/2008 | Response Deadline: 9/20/2008 | Location: Dover, AR (USA) | Number of Speakers Requested: 1 | Speaking Fee: Unspecified | Date posted: 9/4/2008