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The importance of what you say

By Berkun | December 16, 2009

My latest essay for Forbes.com is now up – it’s called the importance of what you say. Many are surprised to learn that for centuries many of the great writers in history, from Emerson to Mark Twain to Peter Drucker, made much of their incomes not from their ideas alone, but from the interest people…

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The toughest room I had this month

By Berkun | December 14, 2009

After a month of promoting Confessions as hard as I can, and doing more than 30 talks or media appearances in the last talks in 4 weeks, I finally have some down time.

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Why you need a public speaking book

By Berkun | December 8, 2009

While on tour in SF this week I ran into some folks who read my earlier books. They were surprised I’d write a book about a topic as boring as public speaking.

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Q&A from webcast on public speaking

By Berkun | December 2, 2009

We had about 500 people in the webcast today about the new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker – as promised here are all of the questions asked in the chat room during the talk, with answers and some snarky commentary. Slides from the talk here (3MB PDF). Actual webcast here (youtube). Here are all…

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CNN covers Confessions

By Berkun | December 1, 2009

Nice article in CNN & Fortune about the new book. Beat stage fright at work

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