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Speak for High Fees in Many Lands
with Frank Furness, CSP

Wouldn’t it be great to travel to the many interesting places in the world you’d like to visit?

Wouldn’t it be great to have someone else pay you for traveling?More and more speakers are finding opportunities to speak outside the U.S., but this teleseminar features a speaker who has taken it to a whole new level.

Frank Furness, CSP, has found a formula which gets sponsors to fly him all over the world, and which uses powerful marketing tools to build his brand and keep himself booked.Whether you’d like to see Dubai, or Sydney, or Rio, Frank can help you make it happen.

The Language of Inflation
Watch Victor Borge as he creates a new language!

Quotation, fun, babies, bilingual, language

"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions."

-- Susanne K. Langer

More quotations

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that babies can tell when a person switches to a different language just by watching the speaker's face.

"Babies can see language"

and this week's video ...

The Eight Principles of Fun

More Just for Fun

Communication quotation, tongue twisters, language power, powerpoint video

A new quote about the power of language

http://communicationedge.blogspot.com/2007/06/language-exerts-hidden-power-like-moon.html


Teaching communication? Here's an activity...

http://ednewsbytes.blogspot.com/2007/06/design-satellite.html

And remember tongue twisters? Here's a few that I learnt years ago and a link to some more ...

http://pivotalpublicspeaking.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/just-for-fun-tongue-twisters/


Today's Video - How not to make a powerpoint

I'm back from a fifteenth birthday dinner. Was great and he's a lovely big thing - learning (what am I saying - has learnt!) charm.

Speaking of communication, I have an interesting article on email communication for you ....

Are you kidding me? This is serious! Or, what psychologists have to say about writing e-mail

including ..." a list of writing tips for non-professionals, which I’d highly recommend for professionals and non-professionals alike... One of his most unusual suggestions is to “speak what you write” — literally, to read your writing out loud before publishing, whether in a blog post or just an e-mail to friends.....Read on ...

and while we're on the subject of communication ....


Babies can 'see' language

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that babies can tell when a person switches to a different language just by watching the speaker’s face.

Researchers showed infants videos of three bilingual speakers reciting sentences. After being trained to become comfortable with a speaker reciting a sentence in one language, babies aged 4 and 6 months spent more time looking at a speaker reciting a sentence in a different language — demonstrating that they could tell the difference.

Read on ...

and to grow your businss

"Your Front Line Business Guide Book"

Award winning author Brian Hazelgren once again puts his expertise into the hands of the Entrepreneur. In his first books “Your First Business Plan” and “The Big Book of Business Plans” Brian instructed his readers in writing winning business plans.

Now in “Tactical Entrepreneur” Brian discusses topics such as

• How to make it in the brutal world of business ownership
• Acquire the TACTICAL abilities needed to be successful
• Creating the FREEDOM needed to reach your goals
• Establishing Calculated Risks
• Learning from others mistakes
• Do you have what it takes?
• Targeting your market
• How to build a successful marketing plan
• Business Planning
• Plus Much More!

The book also contains worksheets, brainstorming techniques, the nine signs of an entrepreneur and a sample business plan. This book is a must for anyone who is just starting out or the seasoned professional who needs a refresher course.

get your own copy of Tactical Entrepreneur visit http://www.tacticalentrepreneur.com/?afid=2215

and on the library side ...

Building a library website on the pillars of Web 2.0

Here's a great explanation of what Web 2.0 actually is and how you can implement it in your library.

Read the whole article

Do you wish you were 15 again? I don't, but it's nice to mix with them occasionally!