Once  a great  orator and philosopher Abraham Lincoln had said ,” If one  feels  nervous at  the begining  of  the speech ,its  good sign and it is natural otherwise one may do mistakes in overconfidence.” So  one  should conevert  the negative energy into positive energy.

                          To build self-confidence one should follow following techniques :

 1.Aggregate all the ideas: We  should have put down all the ideas or content matter into black and white.

By doing so we will have the collection of material;which we are going to serve to our audience ,

2.Sequence the ideas in proper order:   Our  presentation becomes authentic  and well planned.; which will have capacity to hold the audience and keep them listening .

3.Practice: Shakespeare had said that a perfect drama needs 10 practices.Shall  I tell you one fact ;

what great Shakespeare had said about a successful drama ;holds true for each and every thing .

I remember very well ;it  was very difficult  for me to talk a stranger .But at that time very immediately I use  to  recall the words of best friend .

4.How to practice   a) Practice  in front of mirror (b) Notice how much you take to complete you speech . It should go according to the time -limit provided for your speech . (c)Imagine that your giving a live demo in front of real audience .

5.If possible use Power point presentation:   In this you can present  yourself in a better you,this will help you to keep on right track .Use Cd’s as maximum as you can .

6.Just think that your are the master of that subject ,audience do not know more than you .  

7.Keep eye to eye contact :  Try to make audience feel they are important , you take care of their interest.

I didn’t do well in the last market crash, so I look over job listings for contract work.  Yesterday I saw a posting for a project coordinator/proofreader.  The first line of the job description read: One of the countries fastest growing multi-channel marketing agencies … instead of One of the country’s …. 

The hiring company’s website showed a contact email address, so I sent them an email identifying the error.  A corporate VP in a distant city kindly replied (to my astonishment) and explained that the company’s proofreaders confine their work to customers’ documents.  In other words, if a document doesn’t affect the bottom line, no one proofreads it.

Photo by Adrian Pingstone from Wikipedia (Public Domain)

Should Internet content writers follow the model of this company?  Perhaps they should.  Each and every piece of writing you publish should have a goal.  If you can accomplish this goal without proofreading, maybe you shouldn’t proofread.  For example, if you are writing for search engines (bot fodder), errors may not make any difference in how high the search engine puts your article on the results list.  If you want human beings to forward a link to their friends or to link to your article from their blogs, you may want to correct errors.

Fact Checking

This morning telegraph.co.uk published an article about Leonid Ksanfomaliti’s claim that he’d found evidence of life on Venus in photographs taken by the space probe Venera-13.   The author of the article identified Venus as “the red planet” and stated the planet’s gravity was 9 times that of Earth.  Commenters pounced on these errors, and the paper quickly corrected them.  

The view from Venera-13. Photo from Wikipedia (Public Domain)

If you make statements whose errors could be corrected by an extra minute reading Wikipedia, human readers may bounce to a better article.  They may also fail to link to your article.  You may have to resort to black hat SEO techniques to acquire backlinks.  A few minutes of fact checking can help you avoid the need to generate deceptive backlinks and the risk of getting caught cheating.  On the other hand, you may be writing for true believers who won’t let facts stand in their way.  Once again, it may be a question of the goal of your writing.

Writing Badly is a Right

…everything is given to us by the party and the government and only one thing is taken away: the freedom to write badly. –Isaac Babel

If you publish online, you will slip up and publish errors.  Sure as Brin and Page misspelled googol as google, you will encounter readers who think all your content should come down or that you should never write for publication again because of the errors.  No possible pardon is possible, they think, for those who confuse Mars and Venus.  Only authorities with credentials should write, etc.  I argue against this position by reminding everyone that appeal to authority is a logical fallacy and that even someone as inaccurate and syntax-challenged as George W. Bush deserves the right to speak his mind.

George W. Bush from Wikipedia (Public Domain)

Moreover, even bad articles may do good.  Recently I’ve read some Chinese blogs.  I don’t know Chinese at all, so I either have to wait for translations or read with the aid of translation software.  After struggling with a particularly scrambled machine translation, I asked myself some questions. What if this were as good as it gets?  What if I lived in a country with aggressive Internet censorship?  What if only articles with mangled text and misspelled keywords could slip through to tell me about life outside my country?  In that case I would feel privileged to read even bad articles.

The production ran him around $170,000 and the creation of the website ran around $32,000, so would this gambit pay off?

Spectacularly.

Within a day he had made a profit, and within four he had made over $200,000, and still going up as word continues to spread about the $5 video purchase.

 “This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again,” C.K. posted on his website.

Inarguably it’s less than he would’ve gotten from a major production, it’s also a lot less than they would’ve spent making it, but it doesn’t matter, its fan service. $5 as compared to a $20 regionally restricted disk isn’t a difficult choice

This says more about the state of all American industry today than I think anything else. $200,000 is nothing to scoff at, that’s a reasonable amount for anyone especially when you’ve fairly compensated the six other filmmakers already.

Gabe Newell, president of Valve one of the largest video game companies in the world, and through their platform Steam also one of the world’s largest video game distributers has recently been quoted as saying that piracy is not a problem for any of Valve’s game, and he believes that is because of his unique perspective on why piracy occurs.

Piracy in his mind isn’t a pricing issue, it’s a service issue, and while it’s hard to say that Louis C.K.’s work will never be pirated, it does seem reasonable that his work will never suffer from piracy, not if his recent success with self-distribution is any indication. He will do just fine with $200,000 for quite awhile.

But the lessons we must take away from this are obvious, and it is something I have long been told by my banker and investor friends, America is shifting away from a manufacturing based economy and is becoming a service based economy.

I had long thought I understood it in the sense that retail stores were becoming more about the service in finding the right product rather than just being a large warehouse for it, but it’s only been recently that those implications have started to become clearer in the creative and technological realm.

It’s no longer about what you create and release to the public, it has to be about what service you follow it up with.

That’s how to thrive as a business in the new economy.

The biggest problem of reading to an audience is eye contact.  Maintaining a continuous eye contact with your audience should be the first commandment of good public speaking.  The more you can look at your audience, catch their eye and maintain that relationship, the stronger your presentation will be.  So if you take a minute or two or three to look down and read to an audience, you lose all of that contact with them and momentum.  Like children, when you are not looking at them, they will naturally begin to fidget and drift from what you are doing. 

The simple truth is that people don’t like to be read to.  Add to that the problem that when you look down to read, your voice is no longer projecting out to the audience but down to the page.  You lose at least half of the force of your diaphragm because you are looking down so the power of your talk is vastly reduced by that simple interruption.  By the time you look up again, you may have no idea that you have lost of their attention and the forward motion of your talk is damaged.

One way to lesson the disruption of reading a passage is to had out the passage to the audience before hand and then direct them to it as you need to in the body of your talk.  This gives them somewhere to look while you read.  Then when you do read the material, don’t put it on the podium and look down at it.  Hold it up to just below face level.  That way you can read it and still maintain the force of your diaphragm and your eye contact over the top of the book or page. 

Don’t let yourself fall into the trap of thinking that because you are going to read some or all of your presentation, that reduces your preparations.  If anything, you should prepare more.  Be sure you are very familiar with the text so you are not so much reading it as reciting it with notes.  By giving them the text, you are not so concerned with having to read it word for word correctly and because people read faster than they listen, they will be a step ahead of you and understand the text better.

Practice reading the passage.  Resist the urge to read monotone like you was reading the phone book.  Learn to read the passage with inflection, with emphasis and even with emotion.  Work the passage into the flow of your presentation so you come right out of the reading and make the points from the reading that you need to make right away.  These techniques overcome the major problems reading to a crowd create in a presentation.  Using them you will find success because the reading you need to have will flow naturally in the other parts of your speech.  And when you can do that and you don’t lose your audience, you will have made a step forward in your public speaking evolution.

2. RelevanceYour audience wants to retain some useful information that does not feel as lost time. Prepare your speech with relevant information not only for yourself but for those who are going to listen. 

3. Empathy is based advertising, always on the emotions of potential buyers. In a speech exciting, you get confidence if you ask the audience both intellect and emotional. 

4. Authenticity originality of your speech is a magnet that will make you memorable and attractive to the public. Be new, different, out of the crowd and will surely be appreciated. 

5. Creativity If you use audio-visual items, hand-outs or objects of support, those who listen to your speech will retain the message easier. 

6. Elegance target, especially when appearing in front of more people in a professional environment, is essential to create a good first impression. As long as the message of your speech correlate with proper posture, everything goes in your favor. 

7. Timing a strong sense of timing countdown and public discourse is very important. Avoid frequent interruptions or complicated stories with morals. Get to the main point easily and as quickly as possible. 

8. Eloquence Keep your audience focused on the message by changing the tone and the small anecdotes that support your subject. Get in touch, possibly with a trainer to repeat the speech. 

9.Preparation Be in control subject you address speech, this will allow you freedom in speech, no longer need notes – so you can maintain eye contac with those who listen.

How you control questions from an audience can often be the deciding factor as to how your presentation is received.  One of the first things you need to learn before you can advance and give better speeches and presentations is how to develop good eye contact.

You have to be prepared for questions.   When you write your presentation, think about what you’re likely to be asked and what your answers are going to be. Maybe you won’t want to answer a particular question there and then, so think about what you’ll say to satisfy the questioner.

Many people who fears giving public speeches make a simple mistake they often stick to their notes and avoid looking at the crowd directly. This is a big error and will cause your listeners to be uninterested in your presentation. If you are uncomfortable with public speaking, I mean who is?  You probably want to practice taking deep breaths before the presentation and make it very clear that you would be taking questions after your speech.  This normally works because during the speech you would become more comfortable.  Also if you take questions as you go, then your timing maybe prolonged.  And always remember, an audience won’t forgive you for taking half an hour when you were only scheduled to speak for fifteen minutes.

 When presented with a question, listen and it may sounds funny look like your listening.  It may be something you’ve heard before. Treat the questioner with respect and don’t underestimate their point.
 Then thank the questioner for their questions.  It also shows respect and it gives you a bit more time to consider your answer (buying time).

It may be nice if you repeated the question asked, no not to buy time.   Some people may not have heard the question so repeating the question can make sure that everyone is on the same page. It makes you look so clever and in control.   Answers your questions to the audience don’t get trap only answering the questioner. This can cause you to exclude everyone else.

Furthermore, when answering the your question get to the point unless you are a politician, people who ask the question wants answers and if you run around the answer you leave the audience thinking you didn’t know the answer, and if you don’t just say so.

I am married for seven years, but the passion has disappeared. Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez have made an incendiary on stage show American Idol. The artist sang and danced his beautiful wife in a crazy style to Marc. But those in the room.

In a very short dress, Jennifer Lopezshowed why Marc Anthony is still with her ​​swain. The singer danced on the song to her husband, challenging, let alone to the backside that made ​​her famous.

Marc Anthony and he could not take looking at his wife. Moreover, the artist could not resist and whispered something in her ear star, then kissed her in front of spectators.

Before climbing on stage, Jennifer Lopez wore a jumpsuit well molded body so that its forms can not pass unnoticed.

Speaker’s speeches are different from one another. They differ in many things especially in their specific intention in delivering their speeches to the public.

Different speaker have different purposes in public speaking. Some speakers wanted to inform and some wanted to persuade the audience. Some others wanted the audience to actuate while others wanted to entertain them. Still others wanted to impress and others wants to enlighten them.

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The speakers who want to inform the audience usually aims to increase the audience’s knowledge. His intention is to add the quantity of facts that stored in the audience’s memory as well as to supply the audience with facts.

The speaker who wants to persuade his audience has an aim to attain the audience into a debatable assertion. The speaker aims to seek an agreement by using either the knowledge or understanding of his audience.

The speaker who wants his audience to actuate persuades his audience to do a definite act. It may be done by appealing to the audience intellectually or emotionally or both. Doing this has a necessity to arouse the level of audience’s emotions as well as to overcome their natural inertia, thus providing the audience a motivating force.

The speaker who wants to entertain his audience usually gives his listeners a pleasure. His primary aim is to not only to communicate to the listeners but more specifically to entertain them. This could be done in a mirthful way or in a more serious kind, depending upon the speaker.

The speaker who wants to impress seeks to bring the audiences into a new as well as in deeper realization of the truth. The speaker does it well in making the audience understands as well as feels these realizations. It could be done by appealing to the sympathies of the audiences as well as in associating emotion with thought.

The speaker who wanted to enlighten usually clears up some concerns of difficulty and comprehension in the minds of the audience. It is done to be able to present a new perspective with reference to the relations of facts as well as to improve the audience’s understanding about a subject matter through giving an explanation.

Speakers should first determine their intention before giving a speech. This will serve as an objective upon delivering the speech. With this, the speeches are more focus to its intention towards the listeners or the audience.

First of all, prevention is better than cure; rehearse what you want to say, especially if it’s for an important presentation or an interview. Practice aloud and frequently what you want to say.

Give yourself a road map of visual images and props. If you lie them all out in order and you have practiced your speech enough so that it is there in your memory somewhere – these visual aids will really help to jog your memory and get you back on track with what you want to say. These props may not be a script for you to read but they can be great prompts.

Also, keep your notes nearby. Make sure they are written in large, clear print so you can read them, even under pressure. Use colours and other codes so it is easy to keep your place in the notes.

It’s really tempting not to look down at your shoes and want to disappear into a deep hole when you forget what you want to say. Instead of giving in to that fear, try looking at just one person in your audience in the eyes. That will have a two-fold advantage: they will see you mean business and are assertive; you will probably see someone who is supportive and really looks like they want to hear what you’re saying. That can give your confidence a boost and relax you enough to let you remember what you wanted to say.

You could also try repeating the last thing you said. Repetition is a good public speaking technique anyway to emphasize key points; but again, this could be all you need to remind yourself what you wanted to say next, especially if you have rehearsed the speech aloud to yourself plenty of times. It will be like you can hear yourself saying it.

If you are in a situation where interaction is possible – and it nearly always is – ask the audience a question. Get them engaged with an open-ended question. That will buy you time to remember what you wanted to say. Rhetorical questions can also work well if you have rehearsed your speech orally as it tunes you back in to the speech that you will have heard yourself say many times.

If all else fails, you could always ask your audience for help. There should be no shame in saying ‘Now, where was I?” Your audience will probably have tried public speaking themselves so they will know how stressful, it is. The chances are that they will be ion your side and happily help you out.