If you are new to the blog, or maybe just scanned a few early articles, here are a few of my most popular posts. I hope that they serve as a great introduction to my writing, Toastmasters and the topic of public speaking mastery:

Toastmasters

How to be successful in Toastmasters - Part 1 of 2

How to be successful in Toastmasters - Part 2 of 2

Why Toastmasters Makes Sense in a Down Economy

Technical Aspects of Speaking

Educational Moment – Handing over control of the lectern

How to Nail an Introduction

How Rude: Don’t Be a Content Thief

Speaking Mastery

Quit Navel Gazing: It’s About the Audience

Epic Failure: How to Not Connect with the Audience

Being an Excellent Speaker

Speak to be Remembered and Repeated

Keep on speaking,
Chris Elliott

Manifesto

photo credit: Janex & Alba

manifesto

Noun
1. A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party

The CEO of our company will be delivering his manifesto today.

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Chris Elliott

Taking a break from Get Paid to Speak by Next Week, I logged into Google to check my mail and feed reader. As I was doing so, the Top Recommendations caught my eye. I guess Google thinks I need to start reading my own blog.

I am a superstar in my own mind!

If you are attending the District 40 conference this weekend, I will be attending the Sunday session so look for me and say hi. I will likely be wearing a black suit with no tie and a Champions Edge Pin.

Hopefully not many of you have abandoned me, but I just needed to get away for awhile and renew and refresh myself. Also, I have made $0 from blogging. Since I am not making money from doing this, I have had to focus my energies at work and on projects that do allow me to make money. This is causing me to have less time and energy for this blog.

I will be back to posting soon. Until then, check out the archives. There is some great stuff there.

It has taken half of the day to get this theme installed, but I think it was well worth the effort. I encourage you to fully test out the new layout, click on the links, and leave your comments on the new theme.

What’s new?

1. Ability to subscribe to the blog by e-mail
2. Improved look and feel
3. Better support of IE
4. Cleaner interface to social networking links
5. Tabbed Recent Comments , Posts, and Most Commented
6. Tag Cloud and Summary Footer

I was really lucky to have found the lightbreaker theme on wpthemesplugin.com. After only a few hours of modifications, I think I have set up the blog to be much more accessible, shareable, and SEO friendly.

Please let me know what you think and if you like it, please don’t keep my blog a secret.

Though I am researching and working on a couple of new online ventures (hence reading Guy’s book), I welcome the challenge of posting more to satisfy the new readers that alltop.com is bringing in.

Thanks Guy!