Archive for July, 2008

On Giving Speeches and Telling Stories

I ran across a terrific video interview on my favorite web site for communicators, Ragan.com.  It’s an interview with veteran speech writer, Hal Gordon. He wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan and Colin Powell - universally accepted as powerful speakers, regardless of your politics.
 Mr. Gordon drives home the importance of peppering a speech with anecdotes.  Not […]

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A Most Critical Speech: Is Barack a Mile Too High?

If anyone can pull it off, master-orator Barack Obama can.  Still, delivering his democratic nomination acceptance speech at mile-high Invesco Field is risky.
A lot has changed since 1960 - the last time a party acceptance speech was delivered from an outdoor stadium. Then it was John F. Kennedy. The stadium was Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “The […]

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Media Training Tip #1 - You are NEVER Off the Record

It’s spreading faster than the California wildfires this afternoon. Disparaging remarks made by Jesse Jackson about Senator Barack Obama. Reverend Jackson believed an interview was over, and the microphones were off.  As is so often the case, Jackson was right on only one count. The interview was officially over.  Jackson’s apology is plastered everywhere, but […]

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Article on Authenticity Hits Biznik.com

Recently I was honored to be the featured author on Biznik.com, one of the more useful business networking sites. There is a huge amount of information sharing going on there.  Check it out! Let me know what you think.

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Social Networking: The New Lifeblood of Business

My media training/presentation training business thrives on word-of-mouth marketing. My best clients all seem to have come from referrals from my best clients. We enter into our relationship knowing it’s going to work, because we’ve both been vetted by people we trust.  And to that end, connecting and re-connecting with people through fabulous social networking […]

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Lynn Interviewed by Bulldog Reporter

This article is a new post in the “spotlight” section of Bulldog Reporter’s “Daily Dog”.  You can click the link, or read on:

Is Your Exec a Stepford CEO? Media Trainer Espinoza on VIPs as Villains, Victims or Heroes

Brian Pittman’s spotlight this week: Lynn Espinoza, President, Speak! Communications“A Stepford CEO is a corporate executive who has […]

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