The problem with the panel
Let me thank the panelists from last week’s Women and Marketing event at TECHColumbus :Joan Manter,Nancy Bohman,Amy Marshall and Padma Sastry. I won’t repeat the content of
September 13, 2011
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Syndication
For someone who has gotten rid of regular TV in the last six months, syndication has new meaning to me: the ability to have your
September 8, 2011
Elevators rarely get stuck.
Great critical thinking, provocative storytelling, clear governing thought and memorable supporting points. All in 60 seconds. It can be done!! How so? Listen here (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/412/million-dollar-idea?act=1)
August 11, 2011
Stale corporate events, no more!
A year ago TED unveiled a new corporate program where “private” TEDx licenses could enable corporations to host their own internal TEDx events. The guidelines
August 4, 2011
What’s your hook?
Late last year when we started paying close attention to good opening hooks, we started noting those TED talks that had particularly good ones. In this 3
July 22, 2011
The heavy lifting is yours
A client engaged us recently to architect a brand-new signature presentation. So we got out our very sophisticated tools: some markers, flip charts and a
July 18, 2011
Hook ’em.
Everyone has their pet peeves. I have my pet loves. Among them, really awesome opening hooks. As in, how do you grab your audience from
July 18, 2011
You sure you got the right analogy?
Last week during one of our Influential Storytelling trainings, a participant was proud of herself for using an analogy to get a point across to the COO
July 7, 2011
A Family Affair
Make no mistake about it, presentations and public speaking is in my blood. I’ll just caption these two images to demonstrate my point. Exactly
May 23, 2011
What it takes to be successfull
One of my clients called me yesterday to share how her recent presentation went. We’d spent about 6 hours together reviewing, practicing, taping, testing, editing
May 10, 2011
Bullets are for guns.
I was at a meeting recently with a local township official, and when I asked about what highlights we should know about his community, he
April 7, 2011
TALKBACK: Irene Navitadad
Talkback is an occasional series of review of live talks we’ve attended. I’ve been listening to speeches the last few months with an eye to
March 25, 2011
The second time around
Do you ever wonder why ESPN Classics became so popular? We want to know why those games were so great. We don’t see how the
March 19, 2011
TED 2011: Wondering if I’ll ever recover…
Consider: We spend 4 billion hours in traffic. There are 1 billion people in the world with a brain disorder. For every 400 movies made,
March 14, 2011
One Keynote, Five Parts.
Experience Columbus, our travel and tourism bureau, invited articulation to help curate their “keynote address” for their annual meeting. These five dynamic people pictured above
March 11, 2011
Live from the Desert.
To kick off this year’s TEDActive conference in Palm Springs, the TED staff held a special workshop day for TEDx organizers. I gave a brief presentation
February 27, 2011
Everyone needs a story
So she sat looking suspicious at me from the middle of the room. I was pretty sure she didn’t ‘buy’ what I was selling about
February 23, 2011
Talkback: The way you move
Note: This is the first in an ongoing series of reviews of live talks called Talkbacks that we’ll be posting on ar.tic.u.la.tion. Some reviews will be full
February 11, 2011