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Recommended resources for speechwriters and executive communicators

Speechwriters' Blogs

  • Max Atkinson’s Blog

    This U.K.-based communication researcher posts video clips from speeches and offers pungent and instructive analysis.

  • Memo to C-Level Speakers

    The Art of Strategic Messaging in C-Level Speeches and Presentations, by Pete Ryckman.

  • Podium Pundits

    Former Republican and Democratic presidential speechwriters come together “to analyze and comment on major speeches, messaging strategy, and the business of communications.”

  • Professionally Speaking

    Freelance ghost Ian Griffin’s speechwriterly view of the world.

  • Public Speaking Advice and Commentary

    Innovative rhetoric techniques from a veteran political speechwriter.

  • The Speechwriter’s Slant

    Super-erudite speechwriter Hal Gordon offers historical and literary grist for the contemporary and corporate mill.

  • Speechwriting 2.0

    Veteran corporate speechwriter Fletcher Dean gives his instructive take on the news of the day.

  • Tough Talk for Hard Times

    Jeff Porro is a speechwriter for Fortune 250 CEOs, diplomats, and other government leaders, as well as executives of some of the nation's leading trade and professional associations.

Speechwriting Community

  • All the Top Speaking News

    An online clearinghouse of dozens of blogs on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communication.

  • Figures of Speech Served Fresh

    Rhetorician Jay Heinrichs “rips the innards out of things people say and reveals the rhetorical tricks and pratfalls.”

  • ReputationXchange

    ReputationXchange.com is a blog written by Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross, Weber Shandwick's Chief Reputation Strategist.

  • TED: Ideas worth spreading

    A collection of videos talks from the exclusive annual TED conference: “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.”

  • The Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

    Freelance writer Paul Lima offers good advice for others who would walk on the wild side.

  • Washington Speechwriters Roundtable

    The Washington Speechwriters’s Roundtable is a casual alliance of speechwriters in the Washington, D.C. area who are interested in professional camaraderie, sharpening skills, sharing resources, and exchanging war stories.

  • UK Speechwriters' Guild

    Training and networking for speechwriters in the United Kingdom

Public Speaking

  • Presentation Zen

    Presentation design guru Garr Reynolds writes about how to create tasteful visuals and deliver authentic messages.

  • The Eloquent Woman

    Washington-based communication consultant Denise Graveline shares “inspiration, ideas and information to help women with public speaking techniques, eloquence and confidence.”

  • The Pincus Group

    Media training, presentation training, public speaking and crisis communication training.

  • TJ Walker’s Secret

    New York-based speaking coach TJ Walker covers every aspect, every angle of presentations, from invitation to content-creation to rehearsal to delivery.

  • Visually Speaking

    Speaking and presentation coach Tom Mucciolo offers his wisdom in bite-sized chunks on his blog.

Speech Research

  • AmericanRhetoric.com

    A searchable, public-domain collection of great American speeches—text, audio and video.

  • Conference Alerts

    Online search engine listing conferences around the world, updated on a daily basis. Another great tool to see what other speechwriters are doing on a global level.

  • The University of Michigan Library: Documents Center

    Online search engine listing think-tanks around the world. Great resource to see international speeches on public policy and a wide range of subjects.

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