by Paolo | 10 September 2019 | Blog, LearnFromTED, Public speaking
First time guest of #LearnFromTED is Hans Rosling, albeit not a new acquaintance on my site. I show clips from his presentations in my Successful Presentation and I mentioned in few posts: talking about laser pointers or how to make data cool. This time we’ll...
by Paolo | 2 September 2019 | Blog, LearnFromGreatSpeeches, Public speaking
For this #LearnFromGreatSpeeches we look at the Commencement Speech of David McCullough Jr. to the class of 2012 at Wellesley High School. It’s a remarkable one for the message he got across and also very interesting for us to learn how to craft a successful...
by Paolo | 11 August 2019 | Blog, LearnFromGreatSpeeches, Public speaking
A new series called Learn From Great Speeches, where you can improve your public speaking skills, and presentations skills, learning from great speakers. Rhetoric lessons straight from speeches that are part of public speaking history and often of history in general....
by Paolo | 22 July 2019 | Blog
Slide design is graphic design to help transmit a message in public speaking (bar the slideuments, the use of slides as stand alone documents). Speaking of graphic design I mentioned more than once a book I love from Timothy Samara: Design Elements A Graphic Style...
by Paolo | 16 July 2019 | Blog, LearnFromTED, Public speaking
#LearnFromTED with storytelling and an extraordinary guest: Isabel Allende. A tale of passion. The opening is serious, almost clumsy in non-verbal communication (voice, facial expression) and in content: “It’s really scary to be here among the smartest of...
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