Learning to Ride a Bike
I’ve spent way too much time this morning (already!) on trying to figure out the Google +1 button. I received my invite a few days ago, but every time I tried to click through, I’d get to an error page. If that’s been happening to you as well, here is where you can grab your code.
It’s pretty easy to install, but it took me a lot of time to get the placement where I wanted it. A little frustrating, but for now, it works. I’m not sure if I will keep it on WUL, but there’s no point in dismissing it until I’ve tried it out for a while, right?
While I was doing this, Jill Foster alerted me to a video of a kid giving a motivational speech after learning to ride a bike.
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There are videos you like, and there are videos you really like. There are very few videos I really like.
An exception is this one from my friend Jill Foster.
For those of you who don’t know Jill, she’s the founder of Live Your Talk, and her business is training and empowering women entrepreneurs to voice their opinions in a public forum.
She’s a speaking coach with a difference.
Now, I haven’t had that many speaking coaches (after all, I went to drama school, so I’ve had lots of training in hamming it up), but I was able to experience Jill’s coaching and style firsthand when I was preparing for Ignite DC last year.
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I don’t know what it is with us PR folk, but we like to use words, phrases, analogies that evoke destruction when we put our rah-rah hats on.
“Sizzlin’!”
Image: heal and inspire via Flickr, Creative Commons
“Crush it!”
“Kill it!”
Whatever. We’re a bloodthirsty lot and happy to be so.
This past Sunday, I shared seven posts that I think make for great reading when you’re preparing for a presentation.
Today, I wanted to share seven lessons I learned as I prepared for Ignite DC No. 5, an experience I will never forget (thank you, Geoff Livingston, for making me do this).
And these are outside of the commonsense “know your audience,” etc.
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