Some new links on speeches, the art of speechmaking, and the impact of new technology on presentations:
- Scott Feschuk dissects a Stephen Harper speech which, he says “deserves to go down as one of the monumentally inept addresses in Canadian political history”. (Macleans)
- On a lighter note, Scott Berkun draws attention to a web site dedicated to the “Top 100 Speeches of All Time“. He points to Malcolm X as the best speaker of the bunch. I have always had a soft spot for Ronald Reagan – see him as the voice of middle-class Americans here, the voice of national mourning here (with Peggy Noonan’s famous closing words), and as the voice of freedom here.
- Think your speech will be the same when people are commenting on it through Twitter while you are speaking? Twitter is now being used to comment on presentations as they are presented.
