Adrian Trenholm

Bloggers as speakers

May 23rd, 2005

Over at Blog Business World, at business association meetings, conferences and so on:

Bloggers have a powerful inner knowledge of the workings of blogs. That is only logical. What we bloggers often tend to forget is not everyone knows as much about blogs and blogging as we do.

As bloggers, we can help out the rest of society. In particular, we can make our knowledge available as speakers to business and professional groups and organizations. Along with business blog presentations, we can also talk about the blog benefit for non-profit organizations, as well as professional and journalism groups.

We simply have to make ourselves available as speakers.

Great advice. Now all we have to do is to master the noble art of public speaking. At this point, I can do little better than point you to Tom Peter’s “Rules for Gettin’ Good at Speechifying” on page 142 of :

2. See No. 1 above

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