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- “Speaking” Means More Than Keynoting
- A Manuscript is Not a Book: Ten Tips for Manuscript Preparation
- A Pitch is Not a Mini-Website
- About Speakipedia
- About The Influencer Tools
- Acknowledge the Secrets of Human Nature
- Adynaton
- After the Performance: The Meeting Debrief
- Agitate the Problem, Not the Person!
- Allegory
- Alliteration
- Amplify Your Audience
- Anaphora
- Anecdote
- Antimetabole
- Anyone Can Master Public Speaking
- Aphorism
- Aposiopesis
- Are You a Lecturer or a Speaker?
- Are You a Professional Speaker?
- Asyndeton
- Audience Inspector
- Audience Inspector (AI)
- Autism and Speaking
- AV Rider
- Be BIG! Your Audience Has Forgotten How!
- Beginnings and Endings
- Beware of Overnight Success Programs
- Blog
- Blog is Short for Backlog
- Blogging to Build a Speaker or Author Platform
- Bloviate
- Bold Speaking is Not Arrogant
- Bombing on Stage is a Rite of Passage!
- Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by Its Cover – Part 1
- Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2
- Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 3
- Book Cover Design: Moving from Screen to Printing Press
- Book Cover Typefaces and Cover Design Horror Stories
- Book Design – Revisiting Classic Layout for Print and EBooks
- Book Design Basics – Use Hyphens for Justified Type
- Book Design Basics – Dashes, Hyphens and Dots
- Book Design Basics – Drop Caps and Initial Impressions
- Book Design Basics Part 1: Margins and Leading
- Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods
- Book Design Basics Part 3: Running The Numbers
- Book Design Basics: Choosing a Book Font
- Book Design Basics: Quotation Marks and Primes
- Book Design Basics: Small Capitals – Avoiding Capital Offenses
- Book Distributors: What’s in it for Publishers?
- Book Giveaways: Are They Worth it?
- Book Typography: The Crystal Goblet by Beatrice Warde
- Break Up Your Speech with Dynamic Ramps
- Cacophony
- Can I Swear on Stage?
- Care for Your Voice
- Catechresis
- Checkout-Result
- Chiasmus
- Choose the Right Microphone
- Choose the Right Speaking Business Model for You
- Circumlocution
- Cliché-o-Meter
- Climax
- Co-Publishing – Alternative Path or Another Trap for Writers?
- Collaboration vs. Competition
- Colloquialism
- Commatose: the Oxford Comma, or Serial Comma
- Consulting
- Contact
- Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, and the Nature of Truth
- Cut the Clutter! Simplify Your Slides
- Dave Who?
- Demagogue
- Dialogue or Die a Log!
- Diatribe
- Diction
- Don’t Dis Anyone On Stage
- Don’t Be a Prima Donna: A Lesson From Hank Jones
- Don’t Eat the Microphone!
- Don’t Let the Truth Ruin a Good Story
- Don’t Read Too Much into Faces
- Dynamics Means “Change”
- Dysphemism
- Elevator Pitch Witch
- Elevator Pitch Witch
- Elocution
- Encouragement for Those On The Path to Better Writing
- Engage and Educate with Interactivity
- English Pet Peeves
- Epistrophe
- Epithet
- Epizeuxis
- Essay Writing and The Art of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
- Ethos
- Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
- Euphemism
- Euphony
- Everyone Hates Their Own Voice. Get over it!
- Exordium
- Extemporize
- Famous Speeches: Winston S. Churchill “We Shall Fight on the Beaches”
- Famous Speeches: Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”
- Famous Speeches: General Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country
- Famous Speeches: John F. Kennedy “Inaugural Address”
- Famous Speeches: Josephine Baker “March on Washington”
- Famous Speeches: Lou Gehrig “Farewell to Baseball”
- Famous Speeches: Patrick Henry “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
- Famous Speeches: Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I a Woman?”
- Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony “Are Women Persons?”
- Find the Funny in the Room
- Find the Music in the Words
- Find The Phrase that Pays
- Fine Control Over Justified Text
- Foreshadowing
- Free E-Books by Dave Bricker
- Gatekeepers and Self-Publishing
- Get Over Your Fear of Selling
- Get to the Gig … and Have a Backup Plan!
- Green Screen Basics
- Green Screen Setup with King Charles
- Harangue
- Heart Words
- Hiding Behind the Microphone (Beware the Mic Drop)
- Homiletics
- How Do I Know How Long My Speech Will Be?
- How Do I VideoConference with PowerPoint?
- How Long Can You Pause?
- How Long Does it Take to Build a Speaking Business?
- How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate
- How Stories Work in Your Mind
- How Stories Work: The 4 Elements of Story
- How to Create Your Speech Introduction
- How to Evaluate a Speech
- How to Get Over Your Fear of Public Speaking
- How to Negotiate with a Speaker?
- How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX
- How to Sell from the Stage?
- How to Structure a Speech Part 1: Start with the Transformation
- How to Structure a Speech Part 2: Map Out the Journey
- How to Structure a Speech Part 3: Create the Opening
- How to Structure a Speech Part 4: Final Details.
- How to Win Speaking Contests
- How to Write a Humorous Speech
- Hyperbaton
- Hyperbole
- I, We, and You
- If You Want Money, Ask for Advice
- If You Want to Speak More, Speak More!
- Impromptu
- Impromptu Speaking
- In Public Speaking, Being Theatrical is Authentic!
- Indie Publishers, Bookstores and Readers – the Indie Ecosystem
- Influencer Dashboard
- Interview Prep
- Intromatic
- Intromatic (AI-Enhanced)
- Irony
- Is Your Story Big Enough?
- Join Toastmasters, Even if You’re a Pro
- Join Us
- Join your Global Speakers Federation Organization.
- Journey Across the Stage
- Juxtaposition
- Keynotes by Dave Bricker
- Let Your Audience in on Your Unspoken Thoughts
- Litotes
- Logos
- Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
- Malapropism
- Manage an Unruly Audience
- Many Unhappy Returns – Think Outside the Bookstore
- Maybe It’s What You Want But…
- Member Login
- Message Magician
- Metaphor
- Metonymy
- Monologue
- Monologues for Speakers
- Monomyth
- Motif
- Murphy Was an Optimist! Prepare for Disaster
- Narrate Your Own Book
- Narrative Hook
- Need Their Attention? Train Your Audience
- Nervous? Don’t Picture the Audience Naked!
- News Flash! Virtual Backgrounds Don’t Work
- Non Sequitur
- Nonfiction Writing and the One-sided Sales Conversation
- Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?
- One-Sentence Paragraphs Make Powerful Prose
- Oops!
- Open a Speech with Questions
- Open Your Speech with a Startling Statistic
- Open Your Speech With a Story
- Oratorical
- Oratory
- Orotund
- Oxymoron
- Pacing
- Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds
- Panegyric
- Paradox
- Paralipsis
- Parody
- Paronomasia
- Pathetic Fallacy
- Pathos
- Pause After Asking a Question
- Pause After Telling a Joke
- Pedantic
- Periphrasis
- Peroration
- Persona
- Pleonasm
- Polyptoton
- Polysyndeton
- PowerPoint and the Bleeding Edge
- PowerPoint: What Size Should My Slides Be?
- Practice Big and Then Tone it Down
- Privacy Policy
- Prolepsis
- Proposed Standards for Book Typography
- Prosody
- Protect Your Ideas: Copyright
- Protect Your Ideas: Trademarks
- Psalms and Speakers
- Public Speaking Dymamics: Vary Your Emotional Intensity
- Public Speaking Dymamics: Vary Your Tempo
- Public Speaking Dymamics: Vary Your Volume
- Public Speaking Dynamics: Speak With Your Face
- Public Speaking: Dialogue or Die a Log
- Public Speaking: Vary Your Pitch
- Public Speaking: Words and Gestures
- Publish a Book as a Business Card
- Publishing a Book: Beware of Vanity Publishers
- Publishing Advice – Practices & Principles
- Publishing Scams and How they Work
- Publishing Straight Talk
- Pump Up Your Presenting with Sound Effects
- Punch Up the Quality of Recorded Voiceovers with AI
- Quintilian
- Reality Checklist for Self-Publishers
- Recover Your Audience After an Exercise
- Red Herring
- Rehearse the Short Speech You Never Want to Give
- Repartee
- Respect Other People’s Intellectual Property
- Rethinking Book Cover Design
- Rhetoric
- Rhetorical Question
- Round-Robin Introductions
- Running Overtime is a Rookie Mistake
- Runny Noses, Sunspots and Thesis Writing
- Satire
- Scansion
- Self-Publishers Should Not Be Self-Editors
- Self-Publishing & Vanity Publishing: Confuse Them and Pay the Price
- Self-Publishing IS Real Publishing-The Difference is up to You
- Self-Publishing Scams: Keep the “Self” in Self-Publishing
- Self-Publishing: Art or Business?
- Self-Publishing? Get Real(istic)!
- Separate Images From their Backgrounds with AI
- Sex, Politics, and Religion on Stage
- Should I Pay to Speak at an Event?
- Should I Share My Slides?
- Simile
- Similitis
- Simulating the Appearance of Traditional Print
- Sing!
- Site Index
- Solecism
- Soliloquy
- Speak Under the Influence: Find Your Mentors
- Speaker Interviews
- Speakers Bureaus
- Speaking and the Hero’s Journey
- Speaking is the Art of Fourth-Wall Theater.
- Speaking Rockstar or Roadie?
- Speaking Tip: Don’t Leave the Stage Until the Clapping Stops
- Speaking Tip: Don’t Overfeed Your Audience
- Speaking Vocabulary
- Speaking with Notes
- Speaking: Speak With Your Face
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Kelly Swanson - Speakipedia Podcast #8: Maureen Mahoney
- Speech Annotator
- Speech Timing Calculator
- Speechwriting: Alliteration
- Speechwriting: Anaphora
- Speechwriting: Come to Your Senses
- Speechwriting: Cut THAT Fat
- Speechwriting: Rhyme
- Speechwriting: Start an End to Beginnings
- Speechwriting: Structure vs. Flow
- Speechwriting: The Magic of the One-Sentence Paragraph
- Speechwriting: The Rule of Threes
- Speechwriting: Who and That
- Stage Lighting and House Lighting
- Stand Up! You Don’t Need Those Crutches and Filler Words
- Stay Relevant with “I Know What You’re Thinking!”
- Stop Picking on POD
- Store Affiliates
- Store Your Beads in Your Jewelry Box
- Stories Are Everywhere!
- Stories to Never Tell: The Chauffeur Story
- Stories to Never Tell: The Starfish Story
- Storytelling Mistakes: “You Guys” and “You All”
- Storytelling Mistakes: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
- Storytelling Mistakes: Pit of Despair Stories
- Storytelling Mistakes: Poor Me Stories
- Storytelling Mistakes: The Data Dump
- Storytelling Wizard
- Storytelling Wizard (unlocked)
- Straight Talk About Book Reviews
- Straight Talk Speakers
- Syllepsis
- Syllogism
- Syncrisis
- Synecdoche
- Tabs, Indents, and Margins: How to use the Tab Ruler
- Tautology
- Technical Issues? Keep the Room Engaged!
- Teleprompters
- Tell Your Story About the Audience
- Terms and Conditions
- Terms List
- Test Subscription
- Thank You
- Thank you book request
- The Call to Action
- The Callback
- The Fifth Wall
- The Golden Rule of Storytelling
- The Grammar of Book Design
- The Imaginary Law of Perfection
- The One-Sided Phone Call
- The Perfect Book Sales Page
- The Power Pause!
- The Single Most Important Contribution to Publishing
- The Singular They is Now Officially Correct
- The Three Circles of Storytelling
- There Are No “Levels”
- Tips For Book Cover Design
- TMA Stands for Too Many Acronyms!
- Tone
- Track Changes – The Essential Tool for Writers and Editors
- Tricolon
- Turn Nervous into Service
- Twenty Most Popular Speaking Topics
- Understatement
- Use a Beautiful Model to Sell Your Message!
- Use Your Emcee to Set Up Your Speech
- Using Other People’s Content: Fair Use
- Uxorious
- Verbs: Spice Up Your Writing with Verbs that Rock
- Verisimilitude
- Vernacular
- Virtual Speaking: Speak to the Imaginary Room
- Voices and Accents
- Want a Traditional Publishing Contract? Do Your Homework
- Want to Persuade? Use the CAST Call System
- What if? Danger and Opportunity
- What is Servant Leadership?
- What Problem Do You Solve?
- What Should I Do with My Hands When I Speak?
- What to Do with Your Hands When You Speak
- What Webcam is Best?
- What’s a Professional Editor Worth?
- Who’s Your Meeting Monitor?
- Why Do Speakers Charge So Much?
- Why Memorize Your Speech? Try The Suspension Bridge Method
- Why You Need a Professional Editor
- William Lyon Phelps: A Borrowed Book
- Win the Debate: Don’t Insult Your Opponent
- Win the Debate: Prepare Your Opening Statement
- Win the Debate: Reframe the Position
- Workshops by Dave Bricker
- Writing Ergonomics: Avoiding Injury at Your Desk
- Writing is Design – Writing Dialogue: He Said. She Said.
- Writing is Design: Avoid Bland Pronouns and Boring Verbs
- Writing is Design: Avoid Writing Clichés for Better Prose
- Writing is Design: Boring Words & Generic Descriptions – Not Nice!
- Writing is Design: Eliminate THAT Fat From Your Writing
- Writing is Design: Shy Away from Timid and Passive Writing
- Writing is Design: Two-Word Writing Clichés
- You Never Know Who’s in the Audience
- You’re Always On-stage; Walk the Walk!
- Your Accent is Charming!
- Zeitgeist
- Zeugma
