Public Speaking: On the use of TelePrompters

Public Speaking: On the use of TelePrompters

Feb. 15, 2010 by

Many people acknowledge that President Obama is a good public speaker.  At the same time, many note a significant difference in the quality of President Obama’s speech between those occasions when he uses a Teleprompter and those when he speaks

Effective Communication:  Performing on the Twitter Stage

Effective Communication: Performing on the Twitter Stage

Jul. 15, 2009 by

All the world’s a stage, which means Twitter is a stage too, a stage that is new to me, and new to most of us. I’ve been told that I need to tweet for marketing purposes. That I should talk

Communication Skills: Why Mr. Smarty Pants Has His Knickers in a Twist

Communication Skills: Why Mr. Smarty Pants Has His Knickers in a Twist

Mar. 31, 2008 by

What makes smart people dumb? Elizabeth Newton, a psychologist, conducted an experiment on the curse of knowledge while working on her doctorate at Stanford in 1990. She gave one set of people, called “tappers,” a list of commonly known songs