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Fresh Archives
- The Toastmasters Trap
- It’s Not the Right Time
- Vote for Chris to Speak at SXSW
- Club Coaches: Life Support For Dying Toastmaster Clubs
- An Engaging Opening is Necessary for Long Presentations
- How Are You Filling Roles?
- A Speaking Pet Peeve and How to Fix It: Many of You
- 10 Reasons No One Wants to Be an Officer in Your Club
- Why Don’t You Practice?
- Evaluations – What Got You Here…
- The BIG thing
- Why Most Speeches Are Horrible
- Toastmaster Rookie Impressions
- Starting Them Young: Public Speaking in Children
- This is Why We Are Here
- Losing the 2009 World Championship of Public Speaking – Part II
- Why Becoming a Great Speaker Can Change Your Life
- Public Speaking Secrets – Be a Relevant and Interesting Information Filter
- What is Your Intention When Speaking?
- Get an Inside Look at the World Championship of Public Speaking – The Finalists: 2008
- Speech Ideas Are Everywhere
- Lady and the Champs – Conference Review – Part 2 of 2
- Lady and the Champs – Conference Review – Part 1 of 2
- Lady and the Champs – The EdgeNet Summit – An Amazing Speaking Adventure
- Just Showing Up is Not Going to Do It For You
- The Art of Learning and How it Can Help You Win Speech Competitions
- Public Speaking Secrets – Self-Discipline
- Public Speaking Secrets – Make Your Audience the Hero
- Public Speaking Secrets – Your Audience (and Google) Know More than You
- Public Speaking Secrets – Practice Extemporaneous Speaking Skills
- Public Speaking Secrets – Get More Practice Speaking by Doing Teleseminars
- Public Speaking Secrets: Breaking Though the Wall of Speaking Improvement through Competition
- The Best of mytoastmastersblog.com
- Public Speaking Trap – Not Connecting with Your Audience
- Public Speaking Trap: Not Being Yourself When Speaking and how it can Kill Your Credibility
- Public Speaking Trap – Losing the Audience after your Killer Opening
- Public Speaking Trap – Speech Bloat
- Public Speaking Trap – Worrying About Bombing
- Speak to be Remembered and Repeated
- How Thanksgiving Can Make You a Better Speaker
- Being an Excellent Speaker
- Toastmasters Word of the Day: Manifesto
- Toastmasters Word of the Day: Disabuse
- Toastmasters Word of the Day: vis-à-vis
- Toastmasters Word of the Day – Courtier
- Comments Not Showing – Its Not You!
- Why Connection is so important in Speaking: the Value / Feedback Loop
- Toastmasters Word of the Day: Trepidation
- A Top Recommendation to Myself
- Why Toastmasters Makes Sense in a Down Economy
- How Rude: Don’t Be a Content Thief
- Book Review: Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina
- Are You Getting Worse As a Speaker?
- Don’t Worry…I’m Coming Back
- Toastmasters Word of the Day – Gewgaw
- Toastmasters Word of the Day – Argot
- Toastmasters Word of the Day – Laudable
- Do You Need to Speak Well to Lead Well?
- See Ed Tate the 2000 WCPS in The Opus
- Losing the 2008 World Championship of Public Speaking
- Epic Failure: How to Not Connect with the Audience
- Toastmasters Word of the Day: Surly
- Have Writer’s Block? Study the Rhetorical Masters
- In a Rut? Some Suggestions?
- You Are as Good as the Best Member of Your Club
- Toastmasters Word of the Day – Caustic
- How Do We Explain It?
- Quit Navel Gazing: It’s About the Audience
- Toastmasters Word of the Day – propound
- Moving a Club
- The Power of the Podium
- Be A Toastmaster – Provide Feedback on the New Theme
- The Power of a Shocking Opening
- To Tie or Not to Tie – The Great Formality Debate
- Is it Hard for a Toastmaster to go Pro?
- Thanks Nancy! The Missing Type of Toastmaster
- What Type of Toastmasters Member are you?
- Join me in not Posting Much this Week
- Finding your Connection
- Toastmasters Word of the Day: Inclement
- Way to go D58! I like the billboard!
- What So Many “Success” Bloggers Get: Join Toastmasters!
- How to Present Like Steve Jobs – Practice
- Practice One Thing
- Why Corporations Need to Embrace Toastmasters
- Word of the Day – Caveat
- Welcome speaking.alltop.com Readers!
- Where to Get Speech Ideas
- Word of the Day – hyperbole
- Word of the Day: Schadenfreude
- Get Back on the Educational Wagon
- What Next? – Becoming a Club Officer
- How to be successful in Toastmasters – Part 2
- Word of the Day – Expeditious
- How to be successful in Toastmasters – Part 1
- Word of the Day – Contrite
- Word of the Day – Indignation
- Monitor Club Health With a Sign-in Sheet
- How to Nail an Introduction
- Don’t forget to check your slide deck
- Educational Moment – Support
- Word of the Day
- WOW Speeches – Part 2: Motivating your Audience to Action
- WOW Speeches – Part 1: Be Passionate and Compelling
- Educational Moment – Word of the Day
- Educational Moment – Finding your Voice – Continuted
- Why Table Topics Are Important
- The Numbers Don’t Lie
- Educational Moment – Word of the Day – Temporize
- Competitive Speaking – 2007 International Speech Contest
- Speaking Thoughts – Finding Your Voice
- Educational Moment – Evaluation
- Educational Moment – Slow Down
- Educational Moment – Listen to yourself
- Educational Moment – Handing over control of the lectern
- Educational Moment – Timing
- Purpose of this blog
