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Public Speaking Blogs: The Definitive List

Public Speaking Blogosphere

The public speaking blogosphere: a large and varied space with fuzzy edges spanning many disciplines. There are public speaking blogs which focus on speech delivery, visual presentation design, speechwriting, humor, personal development, and interpersonal communication.

Public Speaking Bloggers: A Diverse Group

One is a world champion speaker; some speak professionally; others chronicle their first speaking steps. Many are authors – some more than once. Many are Toastmasters. Or were Toastmasters. Or recommend joining Toastmasters. Women and men. Young and old.

The only unanimous traits are (1) a passion for giving so that others may be educated and entertained, and (2) a way to subscribe to their articles with an easy subscription.

Learn from the Public Speaking Blogosphere

I compiled this snapshot of the public speaking blogosphere with three primary aims:

  • To aid readers in the discovery of excellent public speaking blogs;
  • To build ties within the community of bloggers;
  • To provide encouragement to current and future public speaking bloggers.

For each blog below, sample articles are linked to give a flavor of the blogger’s style.

Twitter List

You can find a comprehensive Twitter List containing all of the known Twitter accounts for these bloggers here: @6minutes/public-speaking-bloggers .

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Valuable resources compiled by Andrew Dlugan at @6Minutes

Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses? - aimee mullins - Gizmodo

What is considered medically necessary for the American insurance standard is whatever gets you from the bed to the toilet. I am not kidding. No other aspect of daily living other than using the bathroom is considered "necessary," which means your basic prosthetic given to most amputees—a stick with a rubber foot as a leg, or a stick with a hook on the end as an arm, has fundamentally not changed since WWII.
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Gizmodo has a feature on Cyborg life this week. I can't verify the truth of this statement, but it sure feels true. If the insurance industry had an up-to-date standard for its work, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to get the use of a terrific technology like Bioness approved.

Breakfast

A final treat in Pittsburgh was Fontinella cheese purchased in the Strip Saturday with breakfast. This cheese has great flavor and a real pleasing texture. It is not your typical supermarket cheese, and enjoying it makes me wonder why we so often settle for easy-to-find, no shopping involved grocery products.

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On the way back to Pennsylvania, we stopped at a service plaza near the Ohio line named Glacier Hills. According to a wall panel there, we were just seven miles north of the farthest advance of the glaciers during the Ice Age. It further noted that the rocks and other debris the glaciers carried along smoothed out the fields behind, and then the retreating glaciers deposited the rich soil that northern Ohio is still blessed with. So there's a pretty good reason the landscape levels out as I have always noticed.

You can't go home again?

We'll see.

One thing for sure, and it's always seemed true to me, is that after you cross the Beaver River on your way west the rocks and low mountains of Pennsylvania give way to hills and broad fields. To those who insist that Pennsylvania is the last bastion of the east, I say you make it to Ohio before you even cross the line.