DailyDirt: Public Speaking Made Easy...

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Tue, Jun 14th 2016 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Talking in front of a big audience can be daunting, and there are a few organizations that try to help people get better at this skill (eg. Toastmasters, the Association of Speakers Clubs, POWERtalk, etc). But a great speech doesn't necessarily have to be delivered in front of a large, live audience, especially now that Youtube/Facebook can reach millions of people (sometimes unintentionally). Practice helps, but good video editing can be pretty important, too.

Chris Anderson knows a thing or two about what a good TED talk is. The original TED curator has a book on public speaking, and Anderson thinks anyone (who can tell a story to a group of friends at dinner) can become a good speaker. Perhaps Anderson has better dinner guests than average, though. [url]
A few years ago, The Onion made a classic TED talk parody. Too bad it was made before What Does The Fox Say? went viral, but The Onion had a whole series of TED-like videos, too. [url]
If you ever want to give a serious talk that appeals to a mass audience, just follow a few simple rules. Any presentation seem more legitimate if there are slides....

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Anonymous Coward, 14 Jun 2016 @ 6:24pm

From the few times I've seen Chris Anderson talk.. I don't think he should be given advice on how to give a talk.
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Ben (profile), 15 Jun 2016 @ 4:14am

The third bullet link is a "private" youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8L8XnDmj0). :-(
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- Michael Ho (profile), 15 Jun 2016 @ 7:09am
  
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  Hmmm. Try http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A
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John Fenderson (profile), 16 Jun 2016 @ 4:07pm

I've noticed
I've noticed that the quality of TED talks has been dropping a bit. There are still very excellent ones, but the days when you could assume the talk is excellent just because it's a TED talk seem to be in the past.

I suspect it's because they've expanded and franchised too much.
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