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Posts from ‘August, 2009’

Public Speaking – 3 Mistakes That Keep You From Grabbing Your Audience's Attention

Do you ever wonder how to grab your audience’s attention? Want to know how to make your audience sit up and want to take notice of what you’re going to say?
Here are 3 mistakes that you need to avoid if you want to grab your audience’s attention the next time you give a speech.

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Book Writing – Determine the Value of Your Book

Regardless of whether you are in the middle of writing your book, nearing the completion or haven’t even started putting “pen to paper” yet, you need to determine the value of your book. I’m not talking about the retail price of the book, I mean the value of your book.
Here are some questions that [...]

Book Writing – What Exactly to Write About

This article will attempt to answer the question: “What exactly to write about, where do you begin?” without having the benefit of knowing a single thing about what your area of expertise. You’re going to get some guidance here that will hopefully be of use to you as being you book writing endeavor.
The best advice [...]

Ugandan Memory Books

This Ugandan memory books project is really neat. I think my favorite thing about the project is that it tackles some hard questions about who you are as a nation.
What happens to the history of people that don’t write things down? How do they preserve their history and culture when no one is around [...]

Book Writing – Getting Your Book Published

When you’re trying to get your book published, you have several options. One of the options is to do it yourself, the other option is to try to get a major publisher to publish the book for you.
The best option, is to do it yourself.
Let me tell you why.
With the advances [...]