http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?prod_abbv=vital Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:34:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday's C-SPAN panel on "Obama Administration Speeches and Rhetoric" is an hour and 41 minutes, but it is the most efficient path to a coherent point of view from every angle of the subject. Sit back, as I did, and listen to former West Wing speechwriters Vinca LaFleur, Jeff Shesol and ... http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=401&prod_abbv=vital Slamming together Vital Speeches of the Day this morning, I wasn't sure whether I had or hadn't inserted a George Allen speech into the final document, so I searched for "Allen." Allen was there—but what the search also turned up in the month's dozen speeches, 42 uses of the term ... http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=399&prod_abbv=vital Bill Lane to appear at "Leadership Communication Days" Just good are your best practices? Run them by the longtime speechwriter to G.E. CEO Jack Welch. (2 min.) [podcast]http://www.vsotd.com/media/podcast/lane_final.mp3[/podcast] Click here for more FREE podcasts on the subject of executive communications. http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=398&prod_abbv=vital Long story short: A 1992 speech by former Australian prime minister Paul Keating is being included in Australia's National Archives' "Sound of Australia" list. But Don Watson, who wrote the Redfern Park speech—about reconciliation with Australia's indigenous people—sez the speech itself wasn't a work of genius. "This was something I had ... http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=397&prod_abbv=vital (Or something like that?) In a Salon.com piece about President Obama vs. "speechwriter Obama," speechwriter Dan Conley suggests they are. Speechwriter Obama understands the zeitgeist while President Obama seems a prisoner to it. Speechwriter Obama slyly dropped praise of American atheists into a speech about race and religion. President Obama was forced ... http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=396&prod_abbv=vital I once saw a business book promising all the collected wisdom "from Aristotle to Zig Ziglar." Presentation coach Olivia Mitchell tries to do it in a single blog post titled, "Are you ready for the third era in presenting?" Bet you didn't even know you'd missed the second one. Yep. According to the ... http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=392&prod_abbv=vital AUDIO CONFERENCE PREVIEW: Advice for a young speechwriter Speechwriting wunderkind Caryn Alagno shares the single most important thing she needed to know to go from scared rookie to star speechwriter. (4 min.) [podcast]http://www.vsotd.com/media/podcast/caryn_final.mp3[/podcast] Click here for more FREE podcasts on the subject of executive communications. http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=390&prod_abbv=vital COMMENTARY: How to get into Vital Speeches Six suggestions to set your speeches—and your speaker—apart from all the rest. (1 min.) [podcast]http://www.vsotd.com/media/podcast/getinVS_final.mp3[/podcast] Click here for more FREE podcasts on the subject of executive communications. http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=389&prod_abbv=vital A time-wasting video for most of the 3.5 million viewers, but required viewing for specialists in oral communication (that's us). An actress introduces herself in 21 accents; what's interesting and instructive to people charged with capturing the voices of others, are the choices she makes in varying not only how ... http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=387&prod_abbv=vital Last week we at Vital Speeches celebrated the 75th anniversary of the ad agency Leo Burnett by sharing this speech by the founder. To our rhetoric-centric way of thinking, it was a doozy. But a correspondent—a veteran corporate logistics exec—wrote to say, "Listening to this guy is painful. Of course the employees ... http://www.vsotd.com/wordpress/?p=386&prod_abbv=vital