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Toastmasters on Confessions (Podcast)

By Berkun | January 31, 2011

To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of Confessions of a Public Speaker, here’s a kick-off post for a week of posts on public speaking. The good folks at Toastmasters published an excerpt of Confessions in the November edition of their newsletter. And to follow it up, they invited me on to their monthly…

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Confessions now in Paperback

By Berkun | January 31, 2011

Confessions of a Public Speaker has reached the sweet milestone of being republished in Paperback.  It’s now cheaper, smaller, and friendlier. It won’t hurt your foot so much if you drop the book on it, and you can bend the cover in all kinds of creative ways to fit into bags, big pockets or tight…

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SCRUM for Weddings?

By Berkun | January 5, 2011

I once wrote that Everything is Project, and its true. Recently Gregory Heller gave an ignite talk, at Seattle Ignite 12, that takes this idea to the extreme: Scrum Project Management for Weddings. There’s good advice for weddings and all projects, including a telling of the Chickens and Pigs tale.

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Great talk: How to Solve a song

By Berkun | January 4, 2011

Here’s my favorite talk from last month’s Seattle Ignite 12 – How to Solve a Song, by Karen Cheng. The video doesn’t do it justice – which happens sometimes (any theories? leave in the comments). Not sure if it’s that the audience energy isn’t picked up well in her microphone, or what, but this was…

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