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		<title>Presenting Yourself Powerfully, Part 2: Learning Presentation Skills at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lifehacker US Edition</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If your presentation skills at work are shakier than the economy, you can&#8217;t pass up a single opportunity to make them better. Fortunately, the skills you learn on the job can serve as a great foundation for the speaking and presenting skills you need to hit a home run on a dream project or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Present Yourself Powerfully, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lifehacker US Edition</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ You may have a great idea bouncing around in your head. It may be something that could revolutionise the company that you work for, or even change your own career. But if you can&#8217;t find a way to get that idea out and in front of others, you and it will be forever stuck. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give an Effective Presentation Like Al Gore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wired How-To Wiki asks Nancy Duarte from Duarte Design&#8212;the company that put together Al Gore&#8217;s An Inconvenient Truth slide show&#8212;to share her tips and tricks for creating a successful slideshow. For example:
Presentations work best when the presenter uses it as a mnemonic device to help the audience remember a message. The message suffers when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offer Constructive Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamar Weinberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have difficulty offering constructive criticism because you fear that your words may be too offensive or nearly not as impacting as they should be?  AskMen.com says that the best blend of constructive criticism combines both the negatives and still emphasises the positives.  Avoid pointing out personal character traits; don&#8217;t turn it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give a Presentation like Steve Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinesssWeek gets a communication coach to analyse Steve Jobs&#8217; latest Macworld keynote speech and pull out 10 tips that us mere mortals can apply to our own presentations. One strategy in particular seems to be what makes Jobs&#8217; product introductions stand out from the typical &#8220;gee whiz&#8221; events:
Sell the benefit. While most presenters promote product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways to Calm Down Before Giving a Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamar Weinberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your first time in front of the podium is usually a tough one.  If you&#8217;ve ever had to speak in front of hundreds of people, it&#8217;s terrifying.  Weblog Mother Tongue Annoyances has a few words of advice on how to overcome the hurdle of your first speech.  The goal is to conquer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Your Browser into a TelePrompTer with CuePrompter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web site CuePrompter takes any chunk of text (up to 2000 characters at a time) and displays it TelePrompTer-style in an auto-scrolling, high-contrast window. You can adjust the TelePrompTer speed, text size, and display mode (normal or mirrored, if you are actually going to set it up with a reflective glass for full-on TelePrompTer duties. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Speaking Tips by the Boatload</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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The Public Speaking Blog never met a tip it couldn&#8217;t share&#8212;or so it would seem from an extensive roundup of suggestions, dos and don&#8217;ts posted there. You might not want to sit down with the entire list before your moment at the mic, but a few of them are worth writing down somewhere, including this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Rid of the Um&#8217;s and Ah&#8217;s With Punctuation Codes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Boswell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Productivity blog Lifehack.org has come up with an intriguing way to get rid of those awkward um&#8217;s and ah&#8217;s we are all susceptible to when speaking in public: punctuation codes.
Make a note whenever you are doing a presentation that every comma you encounter should have a pause attached&#8230;The end of a sentence requires twice as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conquer Your Public Speaking Jitters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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Whether it&#8217;s a best man speech, a corporate presentation, or a dinner toast, speaking in front of people you don&#8217;t know can generate lots of sweat and stutters. Steve Tobak, tech executive and blogger at CNET, has a few words of advice to help anyone facing down a crowd get into the right frame of [...]]]></description>
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