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Wall Street Journal reviews Confessions

By Berkun | November 24, 2009

Really great, high profile review here – check it out Mr. Berkun’s book is packed with tips on how to reduce anxiety and how to speak in public with greater effectiveness. They range from common sense – arrive early, make sure you have back-up copies of your speech, practice – to more advanced tips on…

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Confessions keynote from Web 2.0 expo

By Berkun | November 24, 2009

Here’s the keynote from last week – I’m talking about storytelling, twitter, and making connections. The comments up on youtube are quite harsh – apparently IE sucks (hey, I still say IE 5.0 was pretty darn good), and I’m dumb as hell. (If embedded video doesn’t work, here’s the youtube link)

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The challenge of visible twitter at conferences

By Berkun | November 24, 2009

Last week I gave a keynote at Web 2.0 expo NYC, and as you can see in the photo below, one of the interesting things this year was the twitter feed for the conference was placed on stage behind the keynote speakers.  Any tweet with #w2e was put up live, on stage, a few seconds…

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