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Speaking

Four Public Speaking Lessons From U2 Lead Singer Bono—July 2, 2011 Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, Tennessee

September 6, 2011

Photograph, Jon Erickson/BlueShoe Nashville. (2011) Image source—http://www.blueshoenashville.com/u2nashville.html “It’s not about guitar, bass, drums, or voice, it’s about you, me, and what we do here.” Bono, June 25, 1983 during U2’s performance at The Atlanta Civic Center Why I went to See U2 I went to see U2 in Nashville on July 2, 2011 for at […]

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Meet The Beatles At the 2011 Area Two Toastmasters International Speech Competition (Marley’s Ghost Performs in the Trump Boardroom on 3-31-11)

July 7, 2011

On March 31, 2011, I gave a speech called Meet The Beatles in Speech 01. My primary goal with the speech was to give the audience some entertaining and useful information about public speaking by discussing one of the first speeches I made in High School. But… I also wanted to impress the judges enough […]

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Bert Decker’s You’ve Got to Be Believed to Be Heard: Speaking Book List

April 4, 2011

If you are a spiritual person, this book is the public speaking equivalent of the book that started your spiritual tradition. If you are a movie fan, this book is Citizen Kane or whatever your favorite movie is. If you are a baseball fan, this book is the original Yankee Stadium or Fenway, or… if […]

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Three Lessons And Three Questions From The Bruce Springsteen And Robert F. Kennedy School Of Communication

January 12, 2011

(For a brief period in 2009, I had an eclectic blog that focused mostly on music, but also discussed business, chronic medical conditions, and public speaking. This post was originally on that blog.) A few minutes ago, I surfed by the official Springsteen site, to check out the bosses 2009 tour schedule. Surprise! He’s not […]

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